The PGA Tour will head to the Memorial Park Golf Course in Houston for the Texas Children’s Houston Open. The event, following the Valspar Championship on the schedule, will tee off on Thursday, March 26 with a stacked field of 132 players.
The non-signature event, serving as a key tune-up for players ahead of the Masters Tournament, will feature several of the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) top 50 players. Notably, the competition field will be headlined by World No.1 Scottie Scheffler and No.2 Rory McIlroy. The top-rated duo returns to the playing field after a short break ahead of the Augusta major.
Apart from the Top-two duo, LIV Golf returnee and 2023 PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka, World No.10 Chris Gotterup, No.25 Maverick McNealy, No.26 Si Woo Kim and FedExCup points list top-30 Sungjae Im, are among the top players teeing up for the $9.9 million purse contest at Memorial Park. It is pertinent to note that the event’s winner also gets offered a Masters Tournament berth, if not already exempt.
For the unversed, Min Woo Lee put in a stellar performance to his first PGA Tour title at the 2025 Texas Children’s Houston Open. The Aussie finished with a tournament record-setting 20-under 260 (66-64-63-67) score, that included a career-low 7-under 63 on Saturday, to beat the likes of Scheffler and Gary Woodland. He became the first player since Paul Casey in 2009 to win at their first start in Houston. Notably, Lee returns next weekend to defend his title.
Texas Children’s Houston Open field 2026 field
Listed below is the complete field and qualification criteria for the Memorial Park event:
Winner of PGA or U.S. Open Championship
- Wyndham Clark
- Brooks Koepka
- Scottie Scheffler
Winner of World Golf Championship
- Sam Burns
Tournament winner in past two seasons
- Michael Brennan
- Brian Campbell
- Rafael Campos
- Ricky Castillo
- Cam Davis
- Nick Dunlap
- Nico Echavarria
- Austin Eckroat
- Harris English
- Tony Finau
- Steven Fisk
- Ryan Fox
- Brice Garnett
- Ryan Gerard
- Lucas Glover
- Chris Gotterup
- Ben Griffin
- Harry Hall
- Garrick Higgo
- Joe Highsmith
- Billy Horschel
- Stephan Jaeger
- Tom Kim
- Chris Kirk
- Patton Kizzire
- Jake Knapp
- Min Woo Lee
- Shane Lowry
- Peter Malnati
- Matt McCarty
- William Mouw
- Matthieu Pavon
- Taylor Pendrith
- J.T. Poston
- Aldrich Potgieter
- Aaron Rai
- Davis Riley
- Adam Schenk
- Davis Thompson
- Jhonattan Vegas
- Karl Vilips
- Kevin Yu
Winner of the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard
- Kurt Kitayama
Top 70 on prior year’s FedExCup points list
- Sungjae Im
- Sam Stevens
- Denny McCarthy
- Michael Kim
- Jason Day
- Bud Cauley
- Tom Hoge
- Rickie Fowler
- Max Greyserman
- Patrick Rodgers
- Mackenzie Hughes
- Matti Schmid
- Emiliano Grillo
- Erik van Rooyen
Top 100 on prior year’s FedExCup points list
- Rico Hoey
- Max McGreevy
- Michael Thorbjornsen
- Alex Smalley
- Vince Whaley
- Eric Cole
- Christiaan Bezuidenhout
- Keith Mitchell
- Rasmus Højgaard
- Mac Meissner
- Nicolai Højgaard
- Gary Woodland
- Kevin Roy
- Mark Hubbard
- Chad Ramey
- Chandler Phillips
- Ryo Hisatsune
- Thorbjørn Olesen
- Danny Walker
- Takumi Kanaya
Sponsor exemption
- Bronson Burgoon
- Cole Hammer
- Mason Howell
- Trey Mullinax
PGA Section Champion / Player of the Year
- Casey Russell
Top 10 from DP World Tour (not otherwise exempt)
- Marco Penge
- Kristoffer Reitan
- Adrien Saddier
- John Parry
- Haotong Li
- Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen
- Jordan Smith
- Dan Brown
Top 20 prior season Korn Ferry Tour points list
- Johnny Keefer
- Chandler Blanchet
- Austin Smotherman
- Neal Shipley
- Hank Lebioda
- Adrien Dumont de Chassart
- S.H. Kim
- Christo Lamprecht
- Davis Chatfield
- Zach Bauchou
- Pierceson Coody
- Jeffrey Kang
- Kensei Hirata
- John VanDerLaan
- Zecheng Dou
- Sudarshan Yellamaraju
- Pontus Nyholm
Top five from PGA TOUR Q-School
- A.J. Ewart
- Alejandro Tosti
- Adam Svensson
- Marcelo Rozo
- Dylan Wu
PGA TOUR University
- Luke Clanton
- Gordon Sargent
- David Ford
Top 30 on prior year’s FedExCup points list
- Sahith Theegala
- Adam Scott
Major medical extension
- Lee Hodges
- Will Zalatoris
- K.H. Lee
- Aaron Wise
- Charley Hoffman
Nos. 101–110 on prior season FedExCup Fall points list
- Matt Wallace
- Beau Hossler
- Isaiah Salinda
- David Lipsky
- Patrick Fishburn
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