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The season is rattling through its roster of events, reaching its penultimate Signature Event just days before the third Major of the season at Pinehurst for the US Open.
18-time Major winner Jack Nicklaus hosts the tournament and further to its ‘invitational’ status has been elevated to one of the eight premier PGA Tour events in the reimagined 2024 calendar.
Viktor Hovland defeated Denny McCarthy in a playoff last time around to kick start a summer to remember with further landmark wins at the BMW Championship and the flagship Tour Championship. In doing so, Hovland became the third-youngest FedExCup Champion, continuing momentum into the autumn to steer Team Europe to an emphatic victory at the Ryder Cup in Rome.
Since its first edition in 1976, the Memorial Tournament has been played at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin Ohio. The course opened on Memorial Day 1974 with an exhibition match between Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf. Muirfield Village is named after the Scottish course where Nicklaus won the first of his three British Opens in 1966, completing the first of his three career Grand Slams.
The par 72 course is set to play 7,352 yards and features 71 bunkers with water in play on as many as 11 holes. Muirfield Village consistently ranks among the best golf courses in the USA and in addition to its annual PGA Tour billing, has hosted the Ryder Cup (1987), Solheim Cup (1998), and Presidents Cup (2013).
The format of the Memorial Tournament is a standard strokeplay event played over 72 holes with a cut after 36 holes (two rounds). The player who achieves the lowest score over four rounds will win the tournament.
Despite its positioning directly before the US Open, eight of the world’s top 10 will tee it up at Muirfield Village including the top three players in Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, and Rory McIlroy. Defending champion Viktor Hovland will look to build on his upturn in form at the PGA Championship, and will be joined by two-time Memorial winner Patrick Cantlay and next week’s defending US Open champion Wyndham Clark.
A host of other PGA Tour stars line up in the limited 120-man field including Max Homa, Tommy Fleetwood, Sahith Theegala, Justin Thomas, and Hideki Matsuyama.
The winner in Ohio is set to receive a chunky $4 million from the $20 million Signature purse and 700 FedExCup points. The total payout matches that on offer for the individual competition over at the concurrently running LIV Houston event.
Read how the prize money has evolved on the PGA Tour and see who tops the money lists.
Only seven players have won the Memorial Tournament more than once with Patrick Cantlay’s two wins in 2019 and 2021 being the most recent. Tigers Woods is the event’s most prolific winner, lifting the trophy on five occasions, including a hatrick between 1999 and 2001. Here are the previous 10 winners of the Memorial Tournament.
Tee times and groupings can be found here once available.
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