Tournament Preview - The Memorial Tournament

Tournament Preview - The Memorial Tournament

Hello members,

Another week, another designated event. This time in Dublin, OH for Jack’s tournament, The Memorial. The purse is $20m with the winner’s share being $3.6m. Majority of the big names are playing, with a few exceptions resting up, like Max Homa and Tony Finau. Reminder that players can miss one designated event without a penalty but any additional misses are penalized, like we saw with Rory McIlroy in Hilton Head.

Defending champ Billy Horschel is back to defend his title. Not betting him this week, but I am betting the 2021 and 2019 winner, Patrick Cantlay. Scottie Scheffler has been on a hot streak this year with top 10 finishes and a few wins so he’s a pick, also.

The Memorial is always one of the favorites on Tour. With it being Jack’s tournament, there’s always an aura about it and this week is no less. Excited to see the golf!

Weather

Nice summer-y weather this week in central Ohio. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the high 50s. A potential storm on Saturday so we’ll see if that occurs.

The tournament socials can be found here for Twitter, Instagram, and their own website.

ESPN+ coverage from 7:00am through 2:00pm EST
Golf Channel starting at 2:00pm through 6:00pm EST

Another designated event so a pretty stacked field. Full field is found here. Some players are taking this week off before the U.S. Open in two week. Two notables missing are Max Homa and Tony Finau.

• Previous Winners in this week's field:

  • Billy Horschel - 2022

  • Patrick Cantlay - 2021, 2019

  • Jon Rahm - 2020

  • Jason Dufner - 2017

  • William McGirt - 2016

  • David Lingmerth - 2015

  • Hideki Matsuyama - 2014

  • Matt Kuchar - 2013

• Notable previous winners absent (cough cough LIV for some):

  • Bryson DeChambeau - 2018 (LIV)

Betting Odds provided by Bovada.lv at this link (not sponsored)

Some notable players to consider:

• Scottie Scheffler - +700 - if he can figure out his putting this week, no way he loses. Also, I’m just going to bet him every week it seems.

• Patrick Cantlay - +1100 - 2x previous winner, 2021 and 2019

• Viktor Hovland - +2000 - feel like he’s been close too many times to not get a win, it happens this week.

• Muirfield Village Golf Club is an upscale, private club in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio.

• The club is one of two clubs to host both the Ryder Cup and Solheim Cup.

• It’s also hosted the U.S. Amateur and the President’s Cup.

• Founded in 1974 by Jack Nicklaus, the club is named after Muirfield, Scotland, where Jack won his first of three British Open titles.

• The surrounding area is home to Jason Day, who regularly plays and practices at MVGC.

• The initiation fee is around $100,000 with monthly dues coming in between $500-$800 per month

• The rough is known for being very thick and penalizing along with extremely fast greens, this tournament typically has a more reasonable winning score, around 10-under.

Notes and News

• Jon Rahm had some comments on whether LIV golfers should compete in the Ryder Cup (he was for them competing) (twitter)

• Rory McIlroy, on the other hand, disagrees with Rahm and thinks Brooks Koepka has earned the right to be on the US team but no European LIV player has (twitter)

• Jack Nicklaus shared his thoughts on LIV (twitter)

• Matt Wolff has been removed from Smash GC (twitter)

• Funny story - professional golfer, JB Holmes, played in an event as John Bradley and had to drop from the $30,000 calcutta when he was found out (twitter)

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