Kevin Velo enters play March 27-30 in the 2025 Texas Children's Houston Open at Memorial Park Golf Course following a 57th-place finish in the Valspar Championship his last time in competition.

The Texas Children's Houston Open tournament and course info

• Date: March 27-30, 2025
• Location: Houston, Texas, USA
• Course: Memorial Park Golf Course
• Par: 70 / 7,475 yards
• Purse: $9.5M
• Previous winner: Stephan Jaeger

At the Texas Children's Houston Open

• Velo is competing at the Texas Children's Houston Open for the first time in the past five years.
• When Stephan Jaeger won this tournament in 2024, he had 0.947 Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee (37th in the field), 1.442 SG: Approach the Green (38th), and 6.398 SG: Putting (third).
• En route to his victory last year, Jaeger posted an average driving distance of 320.1 (11th in field), hit 68.06% of greens in regulation (24th), and took 27.25 putts per round (second).

Velo's recent performances

• In his last five events, Velo has an average finish of 49th.
• He has made two cuts over his last five tournaments.
• Velo has not been in contention in any recent tournaments, as he's not posted a score better than the field average or finished within five shots of the leader in any of his last five appearances.
• He has an average score of 5-under across his last five events.
• In terms of driving distance, Kevin Velo has averaged 297.9 yards in his past five starts.
• Velo is averaging -0.783 in terms of Strokes Gained: Putting in his past five tournaments.
• Looking at Strokes Gained: Total, Velo has an average of -1.955 in his past five tournaments.

Velo's advanced stats and rankings

• Velo owns a Strokes Gained: Off the Tee average of 0.215 (52nd) this season, while his average driving distance of 301.0 yards ranks 90th on TOUR.
• In terms of Strokes Gained: Approach, Velo has a -0.534 mark (158th on TOUR).
• On the greens, Velo's -0.521 Strokes Gained: Putting mark places him 154th on TOUR this season, and his 29.74 putts-per-round average ranks 174th. He has broken par 20.76% of the time (136th).

Velo's best finishes

• Velo has taken part in seven tournaments this season, with zero top-10 finishes.
• In those seven tournaments, he had a 28.6% success rate in terms of making the cut (two cuts made).
• Currently, Velo ranks 185th in the FedExCup standings with 14 points.

Velo's best Strokes Gained performances

• This season, Velo posted his best Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee effort at The American Express (January 2025), ranking in the field at 1.497.
• Velo's best Strokes Gained: Approach performance this season came at the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches in February 2025, as he ranked in the field with a mark of 2.521.
• In terms of Strokes Gained: Around-the-Green, Velo's best performance this season was at the Farmers Insurance Open in January 2025, as he posted a 1.287 mark, which ranked him in the field. He missed the cut in that event.
• At the Mexico Open at VidantaWorld in February 2025, Velo posted a Strokes Gained: Putting mark of 1.001, his best mark so far this season. That ranked him in the field (he missed the cut in that tournament).
• Velo recorded his best Strokes Gained: Total mark this season (-0.381) at the Valspar Championship (March 2025), which ranked him 57th in the field. He finished 57th in that tournament.

Velo's Strokes Gained rankings

Velo's past results

All stats in this article are accurate for Velo as of the start of the Texas Children's Houston Open.

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