Open Houston Win contenders for various reasons while masters approach

Since the movement in the spring, Houston of children in Texas Open It has seen a wide variety of good fills its field with masters immediately around the corner.

There are superstars looking for a recent tuning before the first first of the year. There are stars hoping to dig their way from an early season routine and feel safer before arriving in Augusta National. There are young people and young people looking to play their way to masters or shoot for their first victory. And there are those players, young and old, just grinding, hoping to find four good rounds that can give them security at work and perhaps be the spark that brings them back to a pro -golf Echeelon they once lived.

After three rounds in the memorial park, the Leader in Texas in Texas Houston Open is a microcosm of the tournament evolution.

At the top is Min Woo Lee, 26-year-old Australian, whose talent has been the world of golf world for years. But while Lee has an elite talent, he lacked sustainability and, therefore, is still looking for his first PGA Tour victory. Lee does not need a win in Houston to go down to Magnolia Lane. He already has a ticket to the 2025 masters. Lee has not been in question often in PGA Tour – he has three PD World Tour victories – and when he found himself in the boiler, he is Wilted. Such was the case in the player championship a few weeks ago, where Lee kept the 36th Hold lead just to shoot a 78th round to fall from the quarrel.

Lee shot a 64th Friday in Houston and followed him with a 7-nine 63 Saturday to get a four-shot lead on Sunday. In a golf course that allows him to use his driver as a weapon without fear of getting too trouble, Lee will enter Sunday with a chance to rely on lessons from his early career failures and add the PGA Tour Champion to its growing resume.

“Just just a sport where to beat you many times, and I haven’t been in the quarrel, and when you’re there you just want to win or obviously play well,” Lee said after the first round. “But that happens, you go back, and a lot of people have gone back, great players. Don’t beat yourself and just continue. You have to learn from it, I think that was the big getting.

“I talked to Jason Day at the beginning of the week, and only the difficult part is to get yourself into quarrel. That’s what people don’t understand, and I don’t do it often. So it was pretty to be at the top of the leader’s chart that goes on the weekend. As long as you continue to put yourself in those positions, hopefully, you can hold it.”

Lee will begin on Sunday with a four-shot lead in Alejandro Tosti, who scored a 5-nine-65 Saturday to throw in second place.

The Argentine 28 -year -old finished T2 in Houston last year, but since then there is only one Top 10. Tosti, which ranks 214th in the world, finished T4 at the D -December school to hold his card after falling from the 125 best season.

“I’m not the same guy I go tomorrow,” Tosti said on Saturday when asked to come to Houston last season. “I learned a lot in the last year. Last year it was my first time I was in quarrel over a big tour. Just another opportunity. I’m excited. I prepared a lot for it and have worked hard for a long time. Just excited I have this opportunity.”

A hot Sunday would not only give Tosti his first journey to the masters, but would also guarantee his place in PGA Tour for two years, which would be a weight from the youth’s shoulders while he seemed to find solid legs in the high circuit.

Lurking a shot after toast is Scottie Scheffler, which maintained the lead of 36 holes after Fire of a course-cord-conning 62 Friday. Scheffler’s Putter was non-cooperative on Saturday while shot only 1-nine and looked at Lee and Tosti to pass it on Sunday.

Scheffler arrived at Houston hoping to knock the remaining rust From the hand injury that cost him more than a month of the season. Scheffler has accepted the beer wound suffering while Ravioli did for dinner may have “restored it”, But he has used this week to call things and will have a chance to win Sunday before turning his eyes to Augusta National.

“I felt like I hit it better today than I did yesterday,” Scheffler said on Saturday, the day after I connected the course record. “It is a funny game ever. Yesterday it was a day where I felt like I really had to go to the verse and hit some balls and make sure things were feeling the right, and today I felt like I was hitting him much better, just a little away.”

Connected to Scheffler in 12-nine-par-par is Ryan Gerard. The 25-year-old won his PGA Tour card, ending up in the top 30 countries of Korn Ferry Tour last season. While a trip to Augusta would be fine, Gerard’s concentration in Houston on Sunday is in using a greater opportunity to win and add to FedEx Cup points to the next status, which does not come often.

“I wouldn’t say it’s much more pressure,” Gerard said after the round when asked if being novice with fewer guaranteed beginnings Ratchets for Sunday. “I think you need to take advantage of situations. You don’t have as many beginnings as some of the other boys. You’re not getting into the event without playing your way in them, especially some of the smallest areas or any of the signature events, so you have to go to win your way in them.

“There are only many players really, really good here, and basically you have to go to everyone’s beating if you want to climb here. So when you get into those situations, you have to make sure you are putting yourself in a position to benefit. You can live with bad golf shots.

Thirty-eight-year-old Ryan Fox is also in the 12th. New Zealander has fallen to no. 109 in the official rankings of the world golf and will have to win Sunday to win a trip back to the masters, where he has finished T26 and T38 the last two seasons.

There are many in line for those on the board in Houston on Sunday. But exactly what it depends on who you are looking for.