7 chooses our expert loves this week

Welcome to our weekly PGA Tour Gambling-Tips column, displaying the choice from Golf.com expert Brady Kannon’s prognostic. An experienced golf betting and commentator Kannon is a regular guest in Sportsgrid, a trade union audio network dedicated to sports and sports betting. You can follow on Twitter in @LasvegolferAnd you can read his choices below for the children’s Houston Open in Texas who begins on Thursday in Texas. Together with Kannon’s recommended shows, you will also see data from Chirp Golf, a mobile app that contains free golf competitions to play free and everyday where you can make money and prizes with each round and tour.

From Hawaii to California, from Arizona, Mexico, Florida, and now in Texas, PGA Tour has made 12 stops so far in 2025, with only two more to go before reaching Augusta, Georgia. It feels like a three-month version of “Lampoon’s national holidays” and Wally World hosts when we reach Magnolia Lane.

With the masters now just two weeks away, the forecast seems to have gone to something visible. The players are setting their last two weeks of preparation for their consent. Champions Dinner Menu has been published. Dispute is swearing in shape.

While nearby closer and the parts begin to fall in place, the last two golf tournaments make up a large part of the puzzle, deep in the Texas heart. We start this week at Memorial ABOUT Houston of children in Texas Open with the two biggest game titles, Scottie Scheffler And Rory Mcilroy, participating in the celebrations.

The Memorial Park is a Tom Doak design and is a great arrangement for the big championship golf. It is a very tall par 70, extending to about 7,500 yards. The tournament returned to this country in 2020 after a long interruption and the multi -million renovation of Doak in the Golf Course, completed in 2019. This will be the fifth straight year we are again in the Memorial Park for another edition of Houston Open. Carlos Ortiz, Jason Kokrak, Tony Finau and Stephan Jaeger are your past winners.

The course contains large greens, supervised Bermudagrass with Coordinated Flowing Areas, Making a Good Test Before Augusta National. Fairways are wide and contoured and rough is average. It is one of the most difficult tests in PGA Tour’s rotation. Over the past four years, the average winning score has been less than 13 under par. There are significant winds in the forecast this week in the Houston area, along with the possible rain on Thursday and Friday. Proposal of winning winning results this week at the Westgate SuperBook in Las Vegas is under/over 268.5, which translates to 11.5 under par.

The distance away from tee has the advantage of accuracy this week, but the shortest, more accurate drivers have been quite well here in the past. I highlighted the scoring, clash, blows won: access and greens to the regulations won this week. I also looked at the avoidance of Bogey, SG: Striking Ball, proximity to holes from 200+ yards, SG: tee in Green, and SG: Bermudagrass).

As for connected courses I felt there were certain similarities to Southern hills (2022 PGA Championship), Wingspan (2020 US OPEN), and Pinehurst no. 2 (2024 US OPEN). I also looked Renaissance club (Scotzen Open), Narashino Country Club (Zozo Championship), and Silverado In Napa, the ProCore Championship house.

I have played each of the following players for a full win and a Top-20th conclusion.

Maverick McNealy (50-1)

We have been in McNealy several times this season already and with a good reason. I believe he makes sense again this week with the past endings here of 20-19-27. He has also been the 12th in the Zozo Championship, the 16th in Scottish Open, and has a competitive conclusion in Silverado. After finishing the competitor earlier this season in Torrey Pines, we know that McNaaly can handle a large, long, golf course. During the last 36 rounds, it ranks 19th in this field for SG: Ball Staring, 30 per SG: Access, 14th in 4s measuring 450-500 yards, and 14th in SG: Bermudagrass). After missing the cut in Arnold Palmer Invitational and the player championship, I like he comes on good vacation and should be ready to return in the form that he has already seen him record three endings of Top-10 this season.

Thomas Detry (50-1)

Another guy we have been before this season-unfortunately, not when he won in Phoenix-but this is another golf course of the big boy, the kind that Detry has been known to thrive in the past. In fact, he was a race here in Houston last year. Like McNealy, Detry has also done very well in Torrey pines. He was the 14th in the US Open last year in Pinehurst and also, like McNealy, he can really hit. After losing the cut in Arnold Palmer Invitational and to the players, Detry posted a promising 22nd place conclusion last week at the Valsspar Championship.

Alex Smalley (60-1)

Smalley had been holding a pretty heavy schedule, playing four of the last five weeks, with many Top-25 ends this season already. He missed the cut last week in the Valsspar championship (on the bad side of the weather draw) and I’m happy to see him get some extra days. He has been as high as the fourth here in Houston in the past and also has a 10th place at the Renaissance club. He is currently playing the best golf of his career and ranks particularly high in almost all our categories this week.

Keith Mitchell (66-1)

Mitchell is always a good fit when most of the handicap is about working outside. He is one of the best when it comes to hitting the ball and running the golf ball. He ranks 10th in the tournament in the greens in the regulation and is the 27th in the first note 4. He ended up ninth here in 2022 and has lost only one cut in seven starts this year.

Harris English (80-1)

We went down correctly in English at the beginning of this season in Torrey Pines. He ended up the fourth at US Open in 2020 with wings. He is an extraordinary striker and scrambler with results like this, he tells me he can handle the length of this point as well. He was played only here once, but shot three rounds in the 1960s. It also ranks fifth in this field in the yard 450-500 par 4s during the last 36 rounds.

Nick Taylor (90-1)

McNealy won at the end of 2024 in November. English, Detro, and now, Taylor, everyone won in 2025. Taylor just lost cutting for the first time in eight starts, two weeks ago in the player championship. He has three endings in Top-10 in Silverado in Napa and while the length outside of Tee is not his strong costume, he is particularly accurate and is a premium ball attacker. During the last 36 rounds, it ranks 15th in this field for SG: Ball Staring, Sixth for SG: Access, and is the 10th for greens in the obtained regulation. It is also the fourth in the yard 450-500 par 4s.

Nicolai Hojgaard (100-1)

I go back to Torrey Pines, where the Hoygard finished the race in 2024. It is not necessarily a course related to us this week, but it is a length test in a long golf course, as we have here in Memorial Park. Former Houston Open champions, Tony Finau and Stephan Jaeger, both have done very well in Torrey Pines. Hojgaard has also ended the sixth in Scottish Open. During the last 36 rounds, it ranks sixth in this field for SG: Access, the fourth to avoiding Bogey, and is 10th in the vicinity of holes in the 200 -yard or more access shooting.

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