Who are the top-rated golfers at the 2025 Texas Children's Houston Open? Top-50 rankings explored

Modified Mar 26, 2025 11:21 GMT

The 2025 Texas Children's Houston Open is set to tee off on Thursday, March 27, at Memorial Park Golf Course and Driving Range in Houston. The 14th event on this year’s PGA Tour schedule will see a stacked 156-player field compete for the winner’s paycheck from the $9,500,000 prize purse.

The Houston Open will have several big-name PGA Tour stars teeing up, including World No.1 Scottie Scheffler and No.2 Rory McIlroy. The duo, who took a week off after The Players outing, will return with the competition. Unsurprisingly, the top two-ranked players are also the outright favorites to win the contest.

Scheffler enters the event on the back of a T20 finish at The Players. The reigning Masters champion, who finished runner-up at the Houston Open last season, will be eyeing his maiden win of the season this weekend. His best finish so far came at the Genesis Open in February, where he finished T3.

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McIlroy won The Players Championship. The Northern Irishman cemented his second-place on the rankings with the win, adding a gap between him and No.3 Xander Schauffele. The four-time major winner will look at the event as a morale booster ahead of the upcoming Masters. The ace golfer is dubbed one of the favorites to take the Green jacket at Augusta next month.

Interestingly, Scheffler and McIlroy will be joined by 18 other golfers inside the Official World Golf Ranking’s top-50. Players like World No. 11 Wyndham Clark, No.16 Maverick McNealy, No.22 Sahith Theegala, and No.24 Sungjae Im, among others, will join the ace golfers. Notably, TGL star and World No.32 Tony Finau will also join the field. World No.35 Jason Day and No.39 Nick Dunlap are some other names to watch at Memorial Park Golf Course.

It is pertinent to note that Stephan Jaeger won the Houston Open last year, beating the likes of Scheffler, Finau, Thomas Detry, Alejandro Tosti, and Taylor Moore in a memorable finale. The World No. 44 golfer returns this weekend to defend his title.

2025 Texas Children's Houston Open field rankings

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Listed below is the top-50 ranked players at the Houston Open by their Official World Golf Rankings:

1 - Scottie Scheffler
2 - Rory McIlroy
11 - Wyndham Clark
16 - Maverick McNealy
22 - Sahith Theegala
24 - Sungjae Im
25 - Aaron Rai
26 - Thomas Detry
27 - J.J. Spaun
29 - Nick Taylor
32 - Tony Finau
35 - Jason Day
38 - Harris English
39 - Nick Dunlap
40 - Max Greyserman
43 - Davis Thompson
44 - Stephan Jaeger
45 - Taylor Pendrith
46- Nicolas Echavarria
50 - Austin Eckroat

More details on the PGA Tour event will be updated as it progresses.

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Vishnu is a Golf journalist at Sportskeeda. He completed his post-graduation diploma in Print Media Journalism. Before joining Sportskeeda, he worked as an entertainment writer at Zee5 and a news writer at Republic.

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Edited by Vishnu Mohan