Hewlett Packard Enterprise Houston Open R2

Houston Open 2021 R2
November 11-14
Memorial Park Golf Course, Houston, Texas
$7,500,000
Round 1, Round 3, Round 4

Estimated reading time: 8 minutes

Martin Trainer fired a bogey-free 65 on Friday at the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Houston Open to take the lead ahead of an all-American top-13 at 10-under.

Houston Open 2021 R2

“Every course on Tour is firm and fast and difficult, but this week especially so. So it’s really tough just to make pars, and then I had a couple instances today where I was just trying to two-putt and, you know, they dropped in from long range. When that happens, not only do you know it’s your day, but
you’re thankful that you’re in that position.

Houston Open 2021 R2

Having completed the first round in the morning due to a long weather delay on Thursday, play was once again suspended due to darkness with many players still on the course.

Trainer won the Puerto Rico Open in his rookie year on the PGA Tour in 2019 but has only made nine cuts in seventy starts since.

Houston Open 2021 R2

“It is demoralizing when you keep missing cuts over and over again. On Tour obviously it’s tough to even compete and make a cut let alone, you know, get to the top of the leaderboard. It’s been tough at times for me the last couple years not playing well, but now that I figured out a little bit of ball-striking, dropped some putts, it really can turn around that quickly. So I’m just grateful that that’s happening to me this week and hopefully I’ll keep it going.

“Last week I hit the ball really well for the first time in a long time and I just didn’t putt very well. So I figured if I could somehow do both those at the same time, which to be fair, every single player says that every single week, but for me it had been such a long time coming that, you know, it really was a grind for a long time. So now to finally be able to put it together I think is, you know, it’s not easy, but you have to hope that this is the week.”

Houston Open 2021 R2

Kevin Tway played nine holes in the morning to complete his first round then closed with a 64 featuring two eagles and a single bogey to move into second place at 9-under followed by Jason Kokrak who was 6-under for the round when play was called with seven holes to play.

“You’re never going to complain about a 64 with a couple hole-outs,” said Tway. “I played very well, putted well. I’m a little tired now, but all in all a good day.

“The greens are big, so if you hit them, you’ve got some crazy putts, but as long as you can get semi close to the hole, they’re good surfaces, you can make some putts. It pays to be long and straight out here and if you’re in the fairway you can get at some holes. The greens are very good, so I enjoy it.”

Houston Open 2021 R2

Adam Long went bogey-free for a 67 to reach 7-under followed by Kramer Hickok (67), Adam Schenk (64) and Scottie Scheffler who in fifth place at 6-under. Scheffler, who played six holes in the morning to complete his first round, shot the low round of the day and set a new course record with a 62.

“Yesterday I was playing out of the rough most of the time, so it was just nice getting the ball out there in play, give myself some opportunities,” said Scheffler. “This golf course can be pretty challenging from the bermuda rough and you’ve got to hit the ball in play. If you’re hitting it in the rough to elevated greens that you can’t hold just because you’re hitting knucklers out of the rough, so it was very important to get the ball in the fairway.”

Houston Open 2021 R2

Pos.	Player	To Par	Thru	R1	R2
1	Martin Trainer	-10	F*	65	65
2	Kevin Tway	-9	F	67	64
3	Jason Kokrak	-8	11	68
4	Adam Long	-7	F*	66	67
T5	Kramer Hickok	-6	F*	67	67
T5	Adam Schenk	-6	F	70	64
T5	Scottie Scheffler	-6	F	72	62
T8	Wyndham Clark	-5	F	66	69
T8	Max McGreevy	-5	F*	68	67
T8	Matthew NeSmith	-5	F	68	67
T8	Kelly Kraft	-5	16	68
T8	Keith Mitchell	-5	13	67
T8	Lanto Griffin	-5	11*	68
T14	Luke List	-4	F*	65	71
T14	Jhonattan Vegas	-4	F*	67	69
T14	Marc Leishman	-4	12*	65
T14	Matthew Wolff	-4	12*	68
T18	Sam Burns	-3	F	70	67
T18	Andrew Putnam	-3	F*	67	70
T20	Sungjae Im	-2	F	68	70
T20	Tom Hoge	-2	F	68	70
T20	J.J. Spaun	-2	F	72	66
T20	Russell Henley	-2	16*	65
T20	Talor Gooch	-2	14*	65
T20	Joel Dahmen	-2	13	70
T20	Patrick Reed	-2	13*	70
T20	Robert Streb	-2	11	68
T20	Greyson Sigg	-2	9	68
T20	Davis Riley	-2	9*	68
T30	Hank Lebioda	-1	F	67	72
T30	Aaron Wise	-1	F*	73	66
T30	Harry Higgs	-1	F*	71	68
T30	Cameron Tringale	-1	F	69	70
T30	Jim Herman	-1	F*	69	70
T30	Max Homa	-1	F	72	67
T30	Erik van Rooyen	-1	F*	69	70
T30	Chez Reavie	-1	F*	70	69
T30	Maverick McNealy	-1	F	71	68
T30	Scott Stallings	-1	16	71
T30	Alex Smalley	-1	14*	68
T30	Dylan Frittelli	-1	12	70
T30	Matthias Schwab	-1	9	70
T43	Mackenzie Hughes	Par	F	71	69
T43	Henrik Norlander	Par	F*	71	69
T43	Hudson Swafford	Par	F	70	70
T43	Cameron Smith	Par	F	71	69
T43	Stephan Jaeger	Par	F*	68	72
T43	Aaron Rai	Par	F	71	69
T43	Brice Garnett	Par	15	69
T43	Kevin Streelman	Par	15	71
T43	Nick Taylor	Par	13*	68
T43	Joaquin Niemann	Par	13	70
T43	Adam Scott	Par	12*	68
T43	Mito Pereira	Par	9	69
T43	Taylor Moore	Par	9	71
T43	Trey Mullinax	Par	9*	71
T57	Chris Stroud	+1	F*	74	67
T57	Jason Day	+1	F	67	74
T57	Brian Harman	+1	F	67	74
T57	Tyler Duncan	+1	F*	69	72
T57	Ryan Palmer	+1	F*	71	70
T57	Vincent Whaley	+1	F*	69	72
T57	Lee Hodges	+1	F*	69	72
T57	MJ Daffue	+1	F*	68	73
T57	Bronson Burgoon	+1	16	72
T57	Kyle Stanley	+1	16*	73
T57	Scott Piercy	+1	15	71
T57	Zach Johnson	+1	14	72
T57	Stewart Cink	+1	13	70
T57	Graeme McDowell	+1	12	68
T57	Tony Finau	+1	12*	69
T57	Sam Ryder	+1	10*	69
T57	Brian Stuard	+1	9	71
T57	Bill Haas	+1	9	71
T57	Denny McCarthy	+1	9	72
T57	Sahith Theegala	+1	9*	70
T77	Sangmoon Bae	+2	F	73	69
T77	Peter Malnati	+2	F	69	73
T77	Shane Lowry	+2	F*	69	73
T77	Russell Knox	+2	F	73	69
T77	James Hahn	+2	F	76	66
T77	Ian Poulter	+2	F*	71	71
T77	Tyler McCumber	+2	F*	68	74
T77	Paul Barjon	+2	F	74	68
T77	Jason Dufner	+2	16*	66
T77	Doc Redman	+2	15	73
T77	Peter Uihlein	+2	15*	70
T77	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	+2	15*	71
T77	Gary Woodland	+2	11	72
T77	Martin Laird	+2	11*	69
T77	Sepp Straka	+2	10*	70
T77	Ben Silverman	+2	9*	67
T93	Cam Davis	+3	F*	70	73
T93	Andrew Landry	+3	F*	71	72
T93	Brooks Koepka	+3	F	71	72
T93	Tyrrell Hatton	+3	F	75	68
T93	Sebastián Muñoz	+3	F*	73	70
T93	Nick Watney	+3	F*	73	70
T93	Shawn Stefani	+3	F*	70	73
T93	Dawie van der Walt	+3	F	70	73
T93	Chad Ramey	+3	F*	73	70
T93	Richy Werenski	+3	13*	70
T93	Brian Gay	+3	11*	69
T93	C.T. Pan	+3	11*	72
T93	Anirban Lahiri	+3	10*	72
T93	Joseph Bramlett	+3	9	71
T107	Roger Sloan	+4	F	70	74
T107	Jared Wolfe	+4	F	74	70
T107	Cameron Sisk (a)	+4	F	72	72
T107	Gilbert Mendez	+4	9	73
T107	Connor Arendell	+4	9*	71
T112	J.T. Poston	+5	F*	74	71
T112	Seamus Power	+5	F	75	70
T112	David Lipsky	+5	F	70	75
T112	Adam Svensson	+5	F*	73	72
T112	Chesson Hadley	+5	16*	70
T112	Brandon Hagy	+5	14*	71
T112	Francesco Molinari	+5	14	72
T112	Henrik Stenson	+5	13*	72
T112	John Huh	+5	12*	72
T112	Branden Grace	+5	11	74
T112	Danny Willett	+5	11	72
T112	Brandt Snedeker	+5	11*	74
T112	Nate Lashley	+5	11	72
T125	Pat Perez	+6	F*	70	76
T125	Jimmy Walker	+6	12	72
127	Taylor Pendrith	+7	10*	75
128	Rodolfo Cazaubòn	+9	F	72	77
129	Harold Varner III	+10	15	77
130	Lee Westwood	+12	16	70
131	Chase Koepka	+17	F*	77	80
W/D	Sung Kang	Par		74	42
* Player started on the back nine