Paul Casey in his early 30’s has nine international victories except in United States. In Texas, he won his first PGA Tour Victory beating J.B Holmes who is the only player from the Ryder Cup. Couples and Casey were among the players that Sunday morning.
Since 1970, as shown by statistics record, Bo Van Pelt, Colt Knost and Ryan Moore, either one of them broke par under the Windy conditions Sunday. Players gave their best shot. The tournament finished in day light. It has been a long difficult week for others but Casey prefer to earned himself some extra rest on Friday preparing for another days to come. He played only eight holes on Saturday, and then finished a 69 on Sunday morning to begin the final round tied for him. Greg Norman is also heading to the Masters on Sunday .While Sergio Garcia matched with Norman’s to finish the tournament.
Casey is the first European player to win the Houston open, but the sixth international winner since 2002. He was one of the 37 good players who come to Houston to tune up for the next week’s Masters, grabbing the opportunity of an Augusta-like set up at Red stone’s Tournament Course.