Shell Houston Open
March 29- April 1, 2012
Redstone Golf Club
Houston, Texas
Established: 1946 (1922)
Length: 7,457 yards
Format: Stroke play
Par: 72
Length: 7,457 yards
Defending Champion: Phil Mickelson
The Shell Houston Open is a golf contest, which is one of the PGA (Professional Golfers Association) Tour championships. |
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The Shell Open is currently played at Redstone Golf Club, but in the past has been played at many of the Houston areas best courses. In the early years it was played at Memorial Golf Course, which is a fantastic public course located in the center of the city. It was also played at Champions Golf Club, which is widely regarded as one of the better golf courses in Texas. And it was also played at a couple of courses just outside the Houston city limits, Quail Valley and TPC at The Woodlands. But now the Shell Open has been hosted at Redstone Golf Club since 2003.
The format of the Houston Open tournament is the standard four day, 72 hole tourney. The current course at Redstone is approximately 7500 yards long, and is a Par 72 course.
The Shell Houston Open tournament was also known as the Houston Open, the Houston Classic, the Houston Classic International, the Michelob-Houston Open, the Houston Coca-Cola Open, the Big "I" Houston Open, and the Independent Insurance Agent Open. Nowadays the Shell Houston Open takes place in Humble, Texas, and is hosted by Redstone Golf Club.
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Shell Houston Open Winners
Over the years the Shell Houston Open has had many great winners. Just to name some of these great golf players in the list of winners are golfers like: Byron Nelson, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Curtis Strange, Fred Couples and Vijay Singh. In fact, Palmer won the Shell Open twice and both Singh and Strange have won it three times each. The Shell is truly one of the really good PGA tournaments being played today.
2011 Houston Open Winner
Phil Mickelson goes into the season’s first Major in the Masters as a victory on the 2011 PGA Tour after capturing the Shell Houston Open. He also goes into Augusta as a winner the week before for the first time since 2006. Mickelson closed with a 7-under round of 65 on Sunday, following up his course-record-tying 63 on Saturday afternoon. In total, he played the weekend at 16-under par and finished the event 20-under.
2010 Houston Open Winner
The champion of the Shell Houston Open 2010: Anthony Kim
Houston Open Past Winners
- 2010 Anthony Kim - United States
- 2009 Paul Casey - England
- 2008 Johnson Wagner - United States
- 2007 Adam Scott - Australia
- 2006 Stuart Appleby - Australia
- 2005 Vijay Singh - Fiji
- 2004 Vijay Singh - Fiji
- 2003 Fred Couples - United States
- 2002 Vijay Singh - Fiji
- 2001 Hal Sutton - United States
- 2000 Robert Allenby - Australia
- 1999 Stuart Appleby - Australia
- 1998 David Duval - United States
- 1997 Phil Blackmar - United States
- 1996 Mark Brooks - United States
- 1995 Payne Stewart - United States
- 1994 Mike Heinen - United States
- 1993 Jim McGovern - United States
- 1992 Fred Funk - United States
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