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PGA Tour The Memorial Tournament

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About the PGA Tour The Memorial Tournament:


Founded by and hosted by Jack Nicklaus, at the golf course he designed, The Memorial Tournament is one of the most important "regular" PGA Tour events (outside of the majors, Players Championship and WGC events) on the schedule. It's Jack's tournament, after all. And each year The Memorial honors golfers, living or dead, who made a significant contribution to the game (hence the tournament's name).

2008 Tournament
Kenny Perry earned his third win at The Memorial, becoming the oldest champion (47). Perry finished at 280, two strokes better than runners-up Jerry Kelly, Justin Rose, Mathew Goggin and Mike Weir.

2007 Recap
K.J. Choi won the 2007 Memorial by one stroke over Ryan Moore, finishing at 17-under 271 with a final-round 65.

Official Web site
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PGA Tour The Memorial Tournament Records:

  • Overall: 268 - Tom Lehman, 1994
  • Tournament course record: 61 - John Huston, 1996

PGA Tour The Memorial Tournament Golf Course:


The Memorial Tournament is played at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Columbus, Ohio. The course was designed by Jack Nicklaus with Desmond Muirhead on a piece of property that Nicklaus' father took him hunting on when he was a young boy. The course opened on Memorial Day in 1974, and The Memorial Tournament was first played in 1976.

PGA Tour The Memorial Tournament Trivia and Notes:


  • Roger Maltbie won the first Memorial Tournament in a playoff over Hale Irwin after a brilliant stroke of luck. On the third playoff hole, Maltie's approach from 186 yards sailed left of the green ... but hit a gallery stake and bounced onto the green. Maltbie made par and eventually won on an ensuing hole.

  • The first Memorial Tournament used a 3-hole, aggregate-score playoff format, with sudden death following if necessary. Although then-Tour Commissioner Deane Beman later nixed this playoff format, it was the first use of this type of playoff that would later be used in some majors.
  • Jack Nicklaus won his own tournament in its second year, 1977, then in 1984 became the first two-time winner of this event.

  • Tiger Woods is the only golfer to win The Memorial Tournament back-to-back, and he won three straight years, 1999-2001.

  • Woods and Kenny Perry are the only three-times winners of the tournament.

  • Hale Irwin, Tom Watson and Greg Norman are two-time winners of The Memorial.

    PGA Tour The Memorial Tournament - Past Winners:


    (p-playoff; w-weather shortened)

    The Memorial Tournament
    2008 - Kenny Perry, 280
    2007 - K.J. Choi, 271
    2006 - Carl Pettersson, 276
    2005 - Bart Bryant, 272
    2004 - Ernie Els, 270
    2003 - Kenny Perry, 275
    2002 - Jim Furyk, 274
    2001 - Tiger Woods, 271
    2000 - Tiger Woods, 269
    1999 - Tiger Woods, 273
    1998 - Fred Couples, 271
    1997 - Vijay Singh-w, 202
    1996 - Tom Watson, 274
    1995 - Greg Norman, 269
    1994 - Tom Lehman, 268
    1993 - Paul Azinger, 274
    1992 - David Edwards-p, 273
    1991 - Kenny Perry-p, 273
    1990 - Greg Norman-w, 216
    1989 - Bob Tway, 277
    1988 - Curtis Strange, 274
    1987 - Don Pooley, 272
    1986 - Hal Sutton, 271
    1985 - Hale Irwin, 281
    1984 - Jack Nicklaus-p, 280
    1983 - Hale Irwin, 281
    1982 - Raymond Floyd, 281
    1981 - Keith Fergus, 284
    1980 - David Graham, 280
    1979 - Tom Watson, 285
    1978 - Jim Simons, 284
    1977 - Jack Nicklaus, 281
    1976 - Roger Maltbie-p, 288

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