PGA Tour pro is 59 feet from hole. He finishes eight shots later
PGA Tour pro Kris Ventura was 59 feet from the cup on the 13th hole during the Houston Open.
Kris Ventura hits his tee shot on Thursday on the 12th hole at Memorial Park. Getty Images Brooks Koepka, who consulted on the renovation at Memorial Park muni, described the areas around this green this way: They’ll test the pros. “We talked about bunkers quite a lot,” Koepka said.
“I felt the one thing where if I get a good lie in a bunker, I can pretty much get it up and down, looking to hole it. VIDEO “And then when you take that and look at — because this place isn’t just for this week, this place, it’s for the 51 other weeks a year, right? There’s so many people that come out here and can play golf.
And for amateurs, I feel like it’s — the bunker isn’t a place for them to be greenside. They’re not great out of bunkers, most of them. We play with a lot of amateurs pretty much every week and it’s difficult for them.
“And then as far as pros, it’s very easy for pros. If they’ve got a good lie, you’re looking to hole it. So if you can remove that and put no bunkers, a lot of fairway, a lot of undulation around, first off, I think it gives the amateurs — they can always putt it, right?