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2022 Cadence Bank Houston Open final results: Prize money payout, leaderboard and how much each golfer won

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The 2022 Cadence Bank Houston Open final leaderboard is headed by winner Tony Finau , who won the title with the PGA Tour win at Memorial Park Golf Course in Houston, Texas.

Finau cruised to the win on Sunday after entering the final round with a huge lead. His final-round 69 brought him to 16-under 264, which was good enough for a four-shot win over Tyson Alexander.

Ben Taylor finished in solo third place, a shot behind Alexander, to earn huge money and FedEx Cup points that will help his standing.

Finau won the $1,512,000 winner's share of the $8,400,000 purse.

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Cadence Bank Houston Open recap notes

Finau earned approximately 40 Official World Golf Ranking points with the win in the 72-hole stroke-play championship, which is his third PGA Tour win in his last seven starts.

Finau also earned 500 FedEx Cup points with the win, which will help him in the season-long points race as the wraparound season begins.

A total of 68 (of 132) players finished the tournament in the seventh event of the 2022-2023 PGA Tour season after a 36-hole cut was made.

The 2022-2023 PGA Tour schedule continues next week with the 2022 The RSM Classic .

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Carlos Ortiz holds off Dustin Johnson, Hideki Matsuyama to win Houston Open

Carlos Ortiz won the Vivint Houston Open after a lights-out final-round performance.

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A wild Sunday at the Vivint Houston Open crowned not only a PGA Tour winner, but gave us a glimpse of what’s to come heading into Masters week. Here’s how it all went down at Memorial Park Golf Course.

The winner: Carlos Ortiz (5-under 65; 13-under overall.)

How it happened: Dustin Johnson opened the week at the Vivint Houston Open with a 2-over 72, the sort of performance many expected after the reigning FedEx Cup Champion missed a pair of tournaments due to a positive Covid test. Johnson had entered the fall on one of golf’s biggest heaters, but was forced to isolate alone for nearly two weeks inside a hotel room. From the outside, it seemed Johnson would use the week to reacclimate to professional golf prior to heading to Augusta, Ga., for next week’s Masters.

It seems we underestimated how long it’d take the World No. 1 to get his game back into form. After Thursday’s 72, Johnson shot consecutive rounds of 66 before finishing the weekend with a final-round 65. The performance was good enough to leave Johnson at 11-under for the week, and also good enough to give him a share of the final-round lead as he came down the stretch Sunday.

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But indeed, a share of the lead heading down the stretch on Sunday meant very little, not with Carlos Ortiz charging to the front of the pack. Ortiz carded a bogey-free 65 en route to victory. The 29-year-old Mexican held off Johnson and Hideki Matsuyama (who briefly vaulted into a tie for the lead) to claim his first PGA Tour win.

Biggest shot: While he played most of the day with a share for the lead, Ortiz’s biggest shot came on the par-5 16th. With 222 yards to the pin, Ortiz stuffed his 6-iron approach to 6 feet before making a two-putt birdie. Ortiz would finish the day at 13-under, but his birdie at the 16th would prove to be the tournament-clinching moment.

A beauty at the par-5 16th for @CarlosOrtizGolf . He settles for birdie to take sole possession of the lead. #QuickHits pic.twitter.com/KxIBIibfBJ — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) November 8, 2020

Why it matters: Ortiz’s win gives him the first of his PGA Tour career, but the performance might mean just as much to Johnson, who sits firmly in the driver’s seat heading into the final major of 2020. Johnson heads down to Augusta with confirmation that his game is still sharp even after a brief, Covid-driven layoff. The World No. 1 might just be the man to beat at Augusta.

A Brooks sighting: In just his second start since August, Brooks Koepka looked like his old self in Houston. The four-time major champion looked successfully rehabbed from a series of lower-body injuries. Koepka shot back-to-back weekend 65s en route to a fifth-place finish in Houston, his first top-10 since the RBC Heritage in mid-June.

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PGA TOUR LIVE on ESPN+ continues this week with coverage of the Cadence Bank Houston Open at Memorial Park Golf Course in Houston, Texas, exclusively for ESPN+ subscribers.

The Cadence Bank Houston Open is the fourth of five PGA TOUR events this fall on ESPN+ with one feed showcasing the complete rounds of two Featured Groups in both the morning and afternoon waves on Thursday and Friday.

Featured Groups | Thursday, November 10 Coverage begins at 7:30 a.m. ET

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Scottie Scheffler / Sam Burns / Taylor Montgomery | 8:13 a.m. ET tee time

  • Scottie Scheffler – 2022 PGA TOUR Player of the Year, four wins in 2022 (WM Phoenix Open, Arnold Palmer Invitational, WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, Masters), No. 2 world ranking
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After traveling international in three of the last four weeks, the PGA Tour returns to the United States for the 2022 Houston Open at Memorial Park Golf Course. Taking to the Tom Doak redesign for the third time in event history, players will be tasked with handling firm and fast conditions around this municipal course just outside the heart of Houston. With only two events remaining in the 2022-23 swing season, players will look to garner any momentum possible before heading into the holiday offseason.

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Houston Open will now be played in the spring

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HOUSTON — The PGA tour's Houston stop is moving back to the spring. The Houston Open will be played in the spring starting in 2024. 

The announcement was made at a news conference on Wednesday. The purse was increased from $8.4M to $9.1M. 

“We’re very excited to be returning to the PGA Tour’s Spring schedule as a non-designated event and will be announcing  the new date in the coming weeks," Giles Kibbe, Executive Director and President of the Astros Golf Foundation said in a statement to KHOU 11. "This is a great opportunity for the Houston Open.  We’ve been working to make this happen ever since Jim Crane stepped in to save the tournament.  The City and this community have been fully supportive and have helped us get to this position.  This move enables us to get a stronger field of players, grow the event and continue making significant contributions to local charities.”

“We’re very excited to be returning to the PGA Tour’s Spring schedule as a non-designated event and will be announcing the new date (for @HouOpenGolf ) in the coming weeks," says Giles Kibbe, Exec. Dir. and President of Astros Golf Foundation. @KHOU pic.twitter.com/eCGSU0yd59 — Jason Bristol (@JBristolKHOU) April 12, 2023

Mayor Sylvester Turner issued this statement:

"The return of the Houston Open to the City of Houston and to the PGA Tour's Spring Schedule is something I have advocated for and supported since I became Mayor. The fact that it happened so quickly must be credited to Astros owner Jim Crane and is a testament to what can be accomplished by a true public and private partnership and this community's support of the Astros Golf Foundation, which raised $34 million to renovate the Memorial Park Golf Course and improve its facilities.

"The City has worked very closely with Jim and the Astros to turn the Memorial Park Golf Course into one of the best municipal golf courses in the country that is worthy of a PGA Tour event and a great place for all Houstonians to play.

"This is a very good day for Houston. Having the Houston Open in prime-time on national TV will be an excellent opportunity to showcase the City of Houston and the great things that have been done throughout Memorial Park."

Editor's note: A previous version of this story noted that this would be a designated event, as per a source, meaning that the Tour's top players would be required to play in it. It will be a non-designated event.  

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Houston Open returns to PGA Tour; Tony Finau to defend title

The Houston Open is returning to the PGA Tour schedule in 2024, and defending champion Tony Finau has committed to play.

Finau won the tournament in November 2022. As the tour moved to a calendar-year schedule in 2024, it wasn't held in 2023.

This year's edition is scheduled for March 28-31 at Memorial Park Golf Course in Houston.

The 2022 Houston Open victory is one of six for Finau on the PGA Tour, and he has 31 top-five results.

Finau, 34, is ranked 23rd in the Official World Golf Ranking. His best finish so far in 2024 is a tie for sixth at the Farmers Insurance Open last month.

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Houston Open moves to PGA's spring schedule beginning in 2024, to stick around through at least 2028

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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The Houston Open, the city's longtime PGA Tour event, is not going anywhere, but it will be making a move.

On Wednesday, the Astros Golf Foundation announced the Houston Open will move to a spring date in 2024 and be part of the PGA Tour's schedule. Additionally, the Astros Golf Foundation has extended its agreement with the City of Houston and the PGA Tour through 2028.

The 2024 Houston Open will mark the first time the tournament, while under the leadership of the Astros Golf Foundation, will have a spring date. The event was held in November from 2019 to 2022 .

"This is a great day for the Houston Open and a great day for the City of Houston," Astros Golf Foundation President Giles Kibbe said. "We are moving back to the PGA's prime schedule and we are back on national TV. We are positioned to continue doing great things for the City of Houston and so many local charities."

The PGA Tour's Houston Open is the single largest fundraiser for the Astros Foundation and also benefits the City of Houston, First Tee of Greater Houston and countless local charities. About $3.5 million were given back to the greater Houston community following the 2022 tournament.

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Due to the shift, the Houston Open will not be held in 2023. The tournament will remain at Memorial Park.

"We have a full year now to really work on that course," Kenneth Allen, director of Houston's Parks and Recreation Department, told ABC13. "We've done some wonderful things with the Astros. To maintain a PGA course and allow everyday golfers to experience that is a wonderful opportunity to the everyday golfer."

For his part, Mayor Sylvester Turner gave credit where credit's due.

"The return of the Houston Open to the City of Houston and to the PGA Tour's spring schedule is something I have advocated for and supported since I became mayor," Turner said in a statement. "The fact that it happened so quickly must be credited to Astros owner Jim Crane and is a testament to what can be accomplished by a true public and private partnership and this community's support of the Astros Golf Foundation, which raised $34 million to renovate the Memorial Park Golf Course and improve its facilities."

The new spring date has yet to be announced, but ABC13 was told the Houston Open is expected to replace the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, which was held annually two weeks before The Masters. The 2023 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play took place on March 20.

After eight years, Austin is losing the event, and Houston is expected to benefit.

"It's a really good course. It's a hard golf course and the better players love it," Kibbe added. "If we get this positioned right on that date, we're going to have a lot of the top players here."

Last year, just eight of the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Rankings played the Houston Open.

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Just a handful of months after putting the final pile of dirt on the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play, a fellow Texas tournament has slid back into the Austin event’s slot in the PGA Tour’s spring schedule.

Tour officials announced on Wednesday that the Houston Open will be held March 28-31, marking the first time since 2018 the event will be in the spring rotation. The Valero Texas Open in San Antonio is expected to maintain its position as the following week’s event, leading into the Masters.

According to an announcement from the Tour and Astros Golf Foundation, the tournament has also secured a long-term agreement with Texas Children’s, the largest pediatric and women’s health system in the nation. The agreement is for five years.

“We are excited to announce our partnership with Texas Children’s as the title sponsor for the Houston Open,” said Jim Crane, Houston Astros Owner and Chairman. “We couldn’t have asked for a better partner as we continue our mission of giving back to the greater Houston community. Aligning their values with the efforts of our Astros Golf Foundation provides a special opportunity for both organizations to continue to give back to our community, to grow the game of golf, and to provide a platform to help those most in need.”

The event moved from the private Golf Club of Houston to the municipal Memorial Park in 2020 after significant investment from Crane, who funneled enough cash into the muni track to get esteemed designer Tom Doak on board, with Brooks Koepka as a player advisor.

Memorial Park had always been the crown jewel of the Houston public golf scene. Originally built as a nine-hole course in 1912, an extensive redesign by John Bredemus (who had co-founded the Texas Professional Golfers Association in 1922) led to its “official” 18-hole opening in 1936.

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Tony Finau celebrates after winning the 2022 Cadence Bank Houston Open. (Photo: Erik Williams-USA TODAY Sports)

From 1947 to 1963, the course hosted a PGA Tour event 14 times. Arnold Palmer won it once and Jack Nicklaus had a second-place finish. Famously, 1965 PGA Championship winner Dave Marr asked that his ashes be spread at Memorial Park — even though he never won there, he credited the track for shaping his career.

“On behalf of the PGA Tour, we are thankful to Texas Children’s for their commitment to one of the Tour’s legacy events in the Houston Open, a tournament that dates back to 1946,” said PGA Tour President Tyler Dennis. “The Houston Open has played a significant role in shaping the PGA Tour’s history through its competitive lineage with golf’s greats playing and winning the event as well as an unwavering commitment to bettering the community. This partnership between the Astros Golf Foundation and Texas Children’s has the opportunity to take the tournament to new heights, most notably in its ability to impact the lives of families in Houston and throughout Texas.”

Golfweek previously reported that Crane was leveraging the emergence of LIV Golf as a potential suitor for a Houston event if he couldn’t get the spring PGA Tour date he desired.

Crane is an investor in Escalante Golf, which staged two LIV Golf events in the upstart circuit’s inaugural year – Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in Oregon and The International in Massachusetts – and then a third LIV event this season at The Gallery Golf Club in Marana, Arizona.

Crane, along with Giles Kibbe, senior vice president and general counsel for the Astros and president of the Astros Golf Foundation, played in the pro-am at LIV’s Boston event.

Houston is one of the largest markets in the U.S., and the Tour certainly didn’t want to lose it. Despite the Houston Open being successful going up against football and on the heels of a steady stream of baseball playoff games in recent years, Crane reportedly was no longer willing to support a golf tournament in the fall.

Tony Finau captured the Houston last November, and the event will not be staged in 2023 as it prepares for its return to the spring. The tournament will be televised on NBC, Golf Channel and Peacock, and PGA Tour Live on ESPN+.

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The Houston Open is officially returning to the spring portion of the PGA Tour schedule and will be played March 28-31 in 2024, tournament organizers announced Tuesday.

The PGA Tour had previously announced that the longtime tour stop would be moved back to the spring next year after it wasn't included in the fall portion of the 2022-23 schedule, now dubbed the "FedEx Cup Fall."

The Houston Open once was played the week before the Masters. In 2019, it was moved to the fall, when interest in professional golf is lower after the Tour Championship wraps up the FedEx Cup playoffs.

The event figures to occupy the space on the tour schedule vacated by the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play in Austin, Texas, which will not return in 2024.

The tournament will continue to be held at Memorial Park Golf Course. Tony Finau is the defending champion after winning in November 2022.

50 states, 50 golfers: The best native-born players by U.S. state, Alabama to Georgia

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This is the first in a five-part series

From Maine to Alaska, from Minnesota to Texas and from Florida to California, there have been champion golfers produced by all 50 states in America.

To help commemorate the 50th anniversary of The Players Championship, the Times-Union took on a daunting task: pick the best native-born golfer from each state.

Well, some were daunting. Naturally, looking for professional winners from Delaware, Idaho or Wyoming wasn't easy. But we found World Golf Hall of Fame members in Connecticut and Kansas, PGA Tour winners in Alaska and North Dakota and in several cases, LPGA winners were the top players from their state.

So be it — as are the two states whose best players were career amateurs who no doubt would have made a mark professionally had they taken their games in that direction.

The ground rule was simple: to be considered, a player had to have been born in that state — even if he spent most of his life, including his professional life, in another state. (Hint: Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Tiger Woods are not the best golfers from Florida).

We're going alphabetically, 10 states at a time:

Hubert Green, Birmingham  (Dec. 28, 1946 – June 19, 2018)

Green won two major championships (U.S. Open, 1977; PGA Championship, 1985) and 19 PGA Tour titles on his way to a spot in the World Golf Hall of Fame. He had a quirky swing and countless waggles but when the club face met the ball, he was as good from tee-to-green as anyone.

Danny Edwards, Ketchikan  (Born June 14, 1951, age 72)

They can play golf for about three months of the year in Alaska, but Danny Edwards somehow developed a game that earned him a scholarship to Oklahoma State. He then won five times on the PGA Tour. He never captured a major but did take 5th in the 1974 Open Championship.

Billy Mayfair, Phoenix  (Born Aug. 6, 1966, age 57)

He was in the Tiger and Phil stratosphere as a college, junior and amateur golfer, winning two USGA national championships and college player of the year in 1987 at Arizona State. Mayfair then won five times on the PGA Tour and had top-five finishes in the Masters, U.S. Open and PGA.

Mayfair has one claim to fame: he's the only man to beat Tiger Woods in a playoff. Mayfair birdied the first hole of sudden death in 1998 to beat Woods in the L.A. Open at Riviera. Woods won the other 11 playoffs in which he competed.

Paul Runyan, Hot Springs (July 12, 1908 – March 17, 2002)

Runyan is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame both for a playing career that produced 37 worldwide victories, highlighted by two PGA Championships (1934, 1938) and as a teacher, where some of his students were Mickey Wright, Frank Beard and Gene Littler.

Runyan was a club pro at the age of 18 and in 1933 became one of only seven players to win nine or more PGA Tour victories in one season.

California 

Tiger Woods, Cypress  (Born Dec. 30, 1975, age 48)

The GOAT from his native state and perhaps for all time. Yeah, this leaves out some Hall of Famers such as Phil Mickelson, Johnny Miller, Billy Casper and Ken Venturi, but it's really not a debate. Fifteen majors is second only to Jack Nicklaus and 82 PGA Tour victories is in a tie with Sam Snead for the most all-time — and who knows how many more Woods would have won had it not been for injuries and personal issues.

Woods may also be the best amateur golfer since Bobby Jones, winning three U.S. Junior championships, three U.S. Amateurs and an NCAA individual championship.

Wyndham Clark, Denver  (Born Dec. 9, 1993, age 30)

Hale Irwin played football and golf at the University of Colorado but was not born there -- and is not absent from our list ... more on that later.

Clark moved past a relatively mediocre lot from the Mountain State with his U.S. Open victory last year. He has three PGA Tour wins and all of them were over a stout group of runners-up: Xander Schauffele in the 2023 Wells Fargo Championship, Rory McIlroy in the 2023 U.S. Open and Ludvig Aberg in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in February.

Connecticut 

Julius Boros, Fairfield  (March 3, 1920 – May 28, 1994)

A tough call here between Boros and Doug Ford of West Haven. Ford won 19 PGA Tour titles and Boros 18, but Boros trumps Ford with three majors to two and with 22 top-10s in majors, to 12 for Ford.

Boros won two U.S. Opens 11 years apart (1952 and 1963) and won the 1968 PGA Championship by one shot over two other Hall of Fame members, Arnold Palmer and Bob Charles. Boros was 48 when he won the PGA and until Phil Mickelson won that event in 2021 at the age of 50, Boros was the oldest major champion in history.

Ed "Porky" Oliver, Wilmington  (Sept. 6, 1915 – Sept. 21, 1961)

Aside from eight PGA Tour titles, Oliver might have led golf in nicknames. As a youth, he was called "Snowball" by his friends in Delaware for his accuracy in snowball fights, and he later turned that into a good high school baseball career. He once struck out 14 in one game.

When the 5-foot-9 Oliver's weight shot up a bit after turning pro in golf (it was estimated he weighed as much as 240 pounds), Sam Snead stuck him with the nickname that lasted throughout the rest of his life. Oliver never won a major but came in second in The Masters, PGA Championship and U.S. Open. His PGA Tour victories included Pebble Beach, the Western Open and the Houston Open. 

Brooks Koepka, West Palm Beach (Born May 3, 1990, age 33)

For years the best native-born Floridian was Jacksonville's David Duval, with 13 PGA Tour titles, the 1999 Players and the 2001 British Open. While Koepka has four fewer PGA Tour victories, he's got five majors (three PGA titles and two U.S. Opens), seven DP World Tour victories, three LIV Golf wins and two victories in Japan, for a total of 19 professional titles.

You could make a case for Bubba Watson of Bagdad (near Pensacola) with his two Masters and 12 Tour titles but Koepka and Duval had far better amateur careers. Koepka was a three-time NCAA All-American at Florida State and Duval is the only other four-time All-American (at Georgia Tech) since Phil Mickelson.

In the end, the major championship trump all. Koepka might still have this distinction as the best native-born golfer in Florida history if that's all he had won.

Bobby Jones, Atlanta  (March 17, 1902 – Dec. 18, 1971)

He's been the face of Georgia golf ever since he won the 1916 Georgia Amateur at the Capital City Club, at the age of 14. Jones won 13 professional and amateur major championships (all as an amateur) and for kicks, co-founded the Augusta National Golf Club and The Masters.

He never turned professional, telling people he already had a job (he was an attorney) and had a family to raise. Jone is also the face of golf's integrity and famously dismissed any undue praise for golfers for calling penalties on themselves. "You may has well congratulate someone for not robbing a bank," he said.

Next: Hawaii through Maryland.

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PGA Tour rookie Jake Knapp wins Mexico Open

PUERTO VALLARTA, MEXICO - FEBRUARY 25: Jake Knapp of the United States acknowledges fans on the 1st green  during the final round of the Mexico Open at Vidanta at Vidanta Vallarta on February 25, 2024 in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco. (Photo by Hector Vivas/Getty Images)

PGA Tour rookie Jake Knapp is now a PGA Tour winner, taking home the Mexico Open on Sunday after shooting 19-under for the week, beating fellow rookie Sami Valimaki by two strokes.

Knapp started the round with a commanding four-shot lead, but let it slip away as his driver — the foundation of his first three rounds — betrayed him. Knapp hit two fairways in 18 holes on Sunday, and is the first PGA Tour player since 1983 to hit two or fewer fairways in his final round and win. Knapp hit 33 of 39 fairways Thursday-Saturday.

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Still, he secured the win after putting his drive on 18 into a left fairway bunker. Valimaki, needing eagle to force the playoff, went for broke and missed — his monster drive hit the cart path right and settled underneath a fence. Valimaki immediately began asking how much of a cushion he had over the trio in third place. A few moments later Knapp had a tap-in par and lifted his arms in triumph.

“Just grinding it out,” Knapp told NBC of his final round.

Knapp, 29, is just that — a professional golf grinder. The skill was always there — during high school, he shot a 58 on his home course and then a 61 during U.S. Open qualifying, and eventually matriculated to UCLA — but he struggled to gain traction upon turning pro in 2016.

Three years ago he did not have status on any tour and was working as a security guard at a nightclub. But he used conditional status on the Korn Ferry Tour to finish 13th in the season-long standings in 2023, and claim his PGA Tour card for this season.

He tied for third at the Farmers Insurance Open last month, and was T28 at the WM Phoenix Open. Then he followed up his opening-round 67 at Vidanta with a 64 on Friday and a 63 on Saturday, taking a four-shot lead over Valimaki into the final round. Only three players were within seven shots of the lead.

Knapp, No. 125 in the world per DataGolf.com, stumbled out of the gate with bogeys on Nos. 1 and 3, though, and quickly found himself in a tie with Valimaki, who had a birdie and eagle on the front nine.

Knapp eventually steadied himself, gaining a stroke on his playing partner when he parred No. 13 and Valimaki bogeyed, and then giving himself another when he birdied on the Par-5 14th and Valimaki settled for par.

Knapp takes home $1.458 million for the win. He’ll be in the Masters and PGA Championship, as well as The Players Championship next month. He’s also now fully exempt through the 2026 PGA Tour season and will be in all signature events for the rest of this year.

(Photo of Jake Knapp: Hector Vivas / Getty Images)

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Texas Children's Houston Open

Texas Children's Houston Open

Memorial Park Golf Course

Houston, Texas • USA

Mar 28 - 31, 2024

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