Today the Memorial Tournament, which is hosted by former Ohio State Buckeye Jack Nicklaus, gets underway at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the tournament, and will feature the majority of the golfers currently in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings.
For many of the golfers teeing it up at Muirfield at Jack’s Place, it will be their final tune-up before the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in two weeks.
The first Memorial Tournament took place in 1976, with Roger Maltbie defeating Hale Irwin in a playoff. The next year Jack Nicklaus would go on to win the tournament that he hosts. The second **** le for the Golden Bear came in 1984. Nicklaus is one of six golfers with two wins at the Memorial.
Last year Scottie Scheffler had little trouble winning the tournament for a second straight year, beating Ben Griffin by four strokes.
This year Scheffler will try and join Tiger Woods as the only golfers to win the Memorial in three straight years. Woods has won the Memorial five times during his career, which is the most of any golfer. When Woods won in 2012 he registered his 73rd PGA Tour victory, which tied Nicklaus for second-most at the time.