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2026 Texas Children’s Houston Open Full Field: First of Two Texas Stops Before Masters

The season's first major follows trips to Houston and San Antonio.
Scottie Scheffler's withdrawal Tuesday means that world No. 10 Chris Gotterup is the highest-ranked player at Memorial Park.
Scottie Scheffler's withdrawal Tuesday means that world No. 10 Chris Gotterup is the highest-ranked player at Memorial Park. | Reinhold Matay-Imagn Images

With the Florida Swing in the rearview mirror, only two weeks in Texas remain until the Masters. Perhaps you’ve seen ads during March Madness.

Some of the game’s top players will rest from now until Augusta, but Scottie Scheffler is teeing it up again in his home state, playing in this week’s Texas Children’s Houston Open. The world No. 1 has played this event every year he’s been on Tour and has three T2 finishes including the last two years. Editor's note: Scheffler withdrew Tuesday.

World No. 2 Rory McIlroy won’t be in Houston, he said last week that he’s shutting it down until the Masters.

Past major champions Wyndham Clark, Jason Day, Lucas Glover, Shane Lowry, Adam Scott and Gary Woodland are in the field as is Brooks Koepka, once again playing in a non-signature event as part of his return to the PGA Tour from LIV Golf.

Min Woo Lee is back as the defending champion, with Stephan Jaeger and Tony Finau also past champs scheduled to play.

Memorial Park hosts for the sixth consecutive year, the public-access course will also host the LPGA’s major Chevron Championship next month. The PGA Tour will play it as a 7,475-yard par-70.

The PGA Tour’s history in Houston dates to 1946, when Byron Nelson beat Ben Hogan by two shots. Doesn’t get much more “Texas Golf” than that. 

2026 Texas Children’s Houston Open

135 players

Bauchou, Zach

Bezuidenhout, Christiaan

Blanchet, Chandler

Brennan, Michael

Brown, Dan

Burgoon, Bronson +

Burns, Sam

Campbell, Brian

Campos, Rafael

Castillo, Ricky

Chatfield, Davis

Clanton, Luke

Clark, Wyndham

Cole, Eric

Coody, Pierceson

Day, Jason

Dou, Zecheng

Dumont de Chassart, Adrien

Dunlap, Nick

Echavarria, Nico

Eckroat, Austin

English, Harris

Ewart, A.J.

Finau, Tony

Fishburn, Patrick

Fisk, Steven

Ford, David

Fowler, Rickie

Fox, Ryan

Garnett, Brice

Gerard, Ryan

Ghim, Doug

Glover, Lucas

Gotterup, Chris

Greyserman, Max

Griffin, Ben

Grillo, Emiliano

Hall, Harry

Hammer, Cole +

Higgo, Garrick

Highsmith, Joe

Hirata, Kensei

Hodges, Lee

Hoey, Rico

Hoffman, Charley

Hoge, Tom

Højgaard, Nicolai

Højgaard, Rasmus

Horschel, Billy

Hossler, Beau

Howell, Mason +

Hubbard, Mark

Hughes, Mackenzie

Im, Sungjae

Jaeger, Stephan

Kanaya, Takumi

Kang, Jeffrey

Keefer, Johnny

Kim, S.H.

Kim, Tom

Kirk, Chris

Kitayama, Kurt

Kizzire, Patton

Knapp, Jake

Koepka, Brooks

Kuchar, Matt

Lamprecht, Christo

Lebioda, Hank

Lee, K.H.

Lee, Min Woo

Li, Haotong

Lipsky, David

Lowry, Shane

Malnati, Peter

McCarthy, Denny

McGreevy, Max

Meissner, Mac

Mitchell, Keith

Mouw, William

Mullinax, Trey +

Neergaard-Petersen, Rasmus

Nyholm, Pontus

Olesen, Thorbjørn

Parry, John

Pavon, Matthieu

Pendrith, Taylor

Penge, Marco

Phillips, Chandler

Poston, J.T.

Potgieter, Aldrich

Power, Seamus

Putnam, Andrew

Rai, Aaron

Ramey, Chad

Reitan, Kristoffer

Riley, Davis

Rodgers, Patrick

Roy, Kevin

Rozo, Marcelo

Russell, Casey #

Ryder, Sam *

Saddier, Adrien

Salinda, Isaiah

Sargent, Gordon

Schenk, Adam

Schmid, Matti

Scott, Adam

Shipley, Neal

Smalley, Alex

Smith, Jordan

Stanger, Jimmy

Stevens, Sam

Suber, Jackson *

Svensson, Adam

Svensson, Jesper

Theegala, Sahith

Thompson, Davis

Thorbjornsen, Michael

Tosti, Alejandro

van Rooyen, Erik

VanDerLaan, John

Vegas, Jhonattan

Ventura, Kris

Vilips, Karl

Walker, Danny

Wallace, Matt

Waring, Paul

Whaley, Vince

Willett, Danny

Wise, Aaron

Woodland, Gary

Wu, Dylan

Yellamaraju, Sudarshan

Yu, Kevin

Zalatoris, Will

+ - Sponsor exemption
# - Section champion
* - Open qualifier

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John Schwarb is a senior editor for Sports Illustrated covering golf. Prior to joining SI in March 2022, he worked for ESPN.com, PGATour.com, Tampa Bay Times and Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He is the author of The Little 500: The Story of the World’s Greatest College Weekend. A member of the Golf Writers Association of America, Schwarb has a bachelor’s in journalism from Indiana University.