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The Shell Houston Open is a golf contest, which is one of the PGA (Professional Golfers Association) Tour championships. The 2010 purse was $5,800,000, with $1,044,000 going to the winner.

March 28- April 3, 2011
Redstone Golf Club
Houston, Texas
Established: 1946 (1922)
Length: 7,457 yards
Format: Stroke play
Par: 72
Length: 7,457 yards
Defending Champion: Anthony Kim

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.

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 Shell HoustonOpen Winner

Phil Mickelson tuned up for next week’s 2011 Masters Tournament by becoming the Shell Houston Open winner, in his first victory since last year’s Masters. The win moved Mickelson’s world ranking to No. 3, while Tiger Woods dropped to No. 7.

Houston Open Past Winners

2011 Phil Mickelson – United States

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