One of the more unique PGA Tour events takes place this weekend at the Texas Children’s Houston Open. 

The course, Memorial Park, is a municipal track that you can play for under 40 bucks most weekends. 

It’s a big difference from most other courses that close for months in anticipation of a PGA Tour stop. 

Sahith Theegala, who picked up his first PGA Tour win last fall, said that the tour should lean more into the everyman aspect of some courses.

“I think it’d be awesome to watch a scratch handicap go out and play the Monday after a tournament…”

Sahith Theegala on playing a muni this week. pic.twitter.com/v5ZEXFVrug

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Theegala said:

“I think it’s important for the fans to see exactly what a PGA Tour test is. A lot of the guys were like, ‘Hey, we just played here three weeks ago, like this course is really, really hard.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s kind of how it is most weeks out here.’ Yeah, it is fun. It’s awesome that the week after this tournament that anyone can go out and play and see how hard the golf course is set up and the conditions that we play on.”

Theegala noted that watching on TV, you don’t get the perspective of how many slopes and blind shots players have to deal with. 

Theegala said:

“There’s got to be something, like a fan challenge or – I think it would be awesome to see a scratch handicap go out and play like the Monday after a tournament, keep the same conditions and see what they would shoot just to put it into perspective how hard a PGA Tour golf course is. Shoot, I’d commentate on it. More stuff like that can only help the game because it brings more fans into the game and brings a slightly different crowd into the game. I’m all for it.”

How much would you pay to take part in something like that? Perhaps it’s a good idea for the PGA Tour to consider if things don’t work out in getting funding from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund!

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