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It's 2009 Shell Houston Open Week
The Shell Houston Open has finally arrived as a big-time PGA Tour event. After an ugly divorce from The Woodlands, and a difficult transition period in which most of the best PGA Tour players avoided the event, the 2009...
What if they liked the course?
This year's Shell Houston Open during the first week of April is shaping up to have its best field in over 20 years. The Chron's Steve Campbell reports: Tournament director Steve Timms announced another flurry of player commitments Monday that...
What the Tour players really think
Golf Digest is running in this month's issue the results of an interesting survey that the magazine recently took of 25 of the top PGA Tour players. Clear Thinkers favorite and longtime Houstonian Steve Elkington scores highly in one...
It's 2008 Shell Houston Open Week
Following on this post from a couple of weeks ago, this week's Shell Houston Open at Redstone Golf Club has its best field in years (previous posts here), which includes the following top 25 players in the World Golf...
Is this the key year for the SHO?
The Shell Houston Open has been a frequent topic on this blog, particularly the tournament's troubled recent history (see here, here and here). This year's tournament is coming up during the week of March 31-April 6 and, for the...
Review of The Player Course at The Woodlands
It's been awhile since I've posted a review of one of Houston's largely underappreciated large number of fine golf courses (previous ones are here, here and here). So, I'm going to pass along a couple more during this holiday season,...
Best Houston Golf Clubs
If you find yourself watching Tiger Woods waltz to his 13th major tournament championship this afternoon, then take a moment to check out this Mark Button/Avid Golfer article on the best private golf clubs and courses in the Houston metropolitan...
Visiting the SHO
The Shell Houston Open concluded on Sunday with the top-rated player -- Adam Scott (3rd in the World Rankings) -- winning the tournament (final leaderboard here) by making a par on the 72nd hole even after pulling his drive into...
Redstone is looking good
It may not be Augusta National or even one of America's top 100 golf courses, but the Tournament Course at Redstone Golf Club looked pretty darn good on television yesterday during the first round of the Shell Houston Open. In...
The folly of the "resemble Augusta" approach
In the Chronicle's seemingly never-ending campaign to give the Shell Houston Open relevance, this Steve Campbell/Sunday Chronicle article reports that SHO officials are planning on setting up the Tournament Course at Redstone in a manner similar to the way that...
Shell Houston Open -- we have a problem
As noted in this earlier post, the Tournament Course at Redstone Golf Club -- the new home course of the Shell Houston Open golf tournament -- received mixed reviews from the players who played in last week's tournament, a view...
Appleby wins SHO in a cakewalk
Stuart Appleby led from wire-to-wire in winning his second Shell Houston Open golf tournament Sunday at the new Tournament Course at Redstone Golf Club. The final leaderboard is here, local golf writer Ed Fowler's report on the tournament is here,...
Lookin' good
As noted in this earlier post, the Shell Houston Open golf tournament is taking place this week at Redstone Golf Club. Yesterday afternoon, I was able to watch a few minutes of the USA Network telecast of the first round...
It's 2006 Shell Houston Open Week
This is Shell Houston Open week, and this year's tournament is a particularly interesting edition of the venerable local stop on the PGA Tour. As noted in this earlier post, the SHO is still recovering from a series of dubious...
The Fazio Course of the Club at Carlton Woods
The day before the beginning of the Enron Task Force's legacy case, you probably figured that you would find an Enron-related post here today. But before turning to the long slog of that trial, a beautiful late-January Texas day has...
Review of the Tournament Course at Redstone Golf Club
As noted in this previous post, the Rees Jones-designed Tournament Course at Houston's Redstone Golf Club opened for play earlier this month to generally positive reviews. The Tournament Course -- the new specially-designed home of the Shell Houston Open PGA...
The Houston Open - consequences of bad decisions
This Chronicle article about the downturn in the Houston Golf Association's charitable donations after a less than stellar Shell Houston Open this past spring brings to mind how even well-intentioned people can bungle a good thing through a series of...
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