Peter Malnati ended the four-week Florida Swing almost as it began, with a triple-digit odds winner at the Valspar Championship. Now the Tour moves to Texas for two weeks of play before the year's first major, The Masters, beginning on April 11th. This week, Memorial Park Golf Course hosts the Texas Children's Houston Ope. The field of 144 golfers will play for $9.1 million in purse money. This event takes the place of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, which had been played in Austin since 2016 (with the exception of 2020 due to COVID). Memorial Park is a par-70 that plays at more than 7,400 yards and features tree-lined fairways and tight runoff areas around the greens. 

Scottie Scheffler is the overwhelming favorite at +300, with Wyndham Clark (+1200), Will Zalatoris (+1800), Sahith Theegala and Tony Finau (+2000), and Jason Day (+2500) closest to him in the betting odds this week.

With a competitive field for 2024's first event in Texas, who can you trust for your Houston Open Fantasy golf picks? Before you set your 2024 Texas Children's Houston Open golf lineups or make any PGA Tour bets, you NEED to see the Fantasy golf rankings from Fantasy expert Eric Cohen.

Cohen is an avid golf bettor who correctly predicted the pre-tournament outright winner of the 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic (Rickie Fowler +1400), 2023 PGA Championship (Brooks Koepka +2000), 2023 Honda Classic (Chris Kirk +3500), 2022 Open Championship (Cameron Smith +2200), 2022 U.S. Open (Matt Fitzpatrick +2500), and 2022 Phoenix Open (Scottie Scheffler's first career victory at +2800). 

Eric is a contributor to SportsLine's YouTube shows including "Early Edge" and is the host of "The Early Wedge" golf show (live on Tuesday, 3/26 at 7:00 p.m. ET). Anyone who has followed Cohen's predictions has made positive gains on their golf picks.

Now, Cohen has studied the field set to play at Memorial Park and revealed his Houston Open Fantasy golf rankings. 

We can tell you he is backing Joel Dahmen at +8000 odds, saying: "In two appearances at Memorial Park, Dahmen has finished T5 and T9, gaining nearly 15 combined shots in ball striking in the process. In the last two weeks at The Players and the Valspar Championship, Dahmen has gained a whopping 19 shots in ball striking en route to T11 and T49 finishes."

On the other hand, Cohen is fading Jason Day at +2500. "All three of Day's top-10s this season have come at limited-field elevated events," Cohen says. "In his other four tournaments against bigger fields, Day hasn't finished inside the top 30." 

Cohen also is backing several underdogs in his 2024 Houston Open Fantasy golf picks, including a HUGE 175-1 longshot who has been on an uptick of late! If this player can pull off a stunning result, it would bring a HUGE payoff and be a valuable piece for Houston Open Fantasy golf lineups. You ABSOLUTELY need to see who it is before locking in any fantasy golf picks.

Who wins the Texas Children's Houston Open, and which triple-digit longshot could bring a HUGE payout and be the difference for your Fantasy golf picks? Join SportsLine now to get Eric Cohen's Fantasy golf rankings and picks for Houston Open, all from the Fantasy expert who has delivered a positive ROI with his golf picks!