The Memorial Tournament

Having secured his third major championship trophy only a few weeks ago at the PGA Championship, Scottie Scheffler is proving he is ever the man to back for victory having finished on top of the leaderboard at the Memorial Tournament in Ohio.

Scottie successfully defended his title having secured the win at the 2024 Memorial Tournament, earning him much admiration from Jack Nicklaus. The Golden Bear designed Muirfield Village Golf Club and opened the Memorial Day tournament back in 1974, a homage to his hometown of Columbus Ohio.

The World No.1 played his way around Muirfield Village with a careful consistency, a strategy that proved to be fruitful against the field. He carded two rounds of 70 followed by a bogey-free 68 on the Saturday, setting him up in the lead for the final round.

Ben Griffin, who won the Charles Schwab Challenge last week, was doing his best to catch Scottie. The 29-year-old had a turbulent final round and scored both an eagle and a double-bogey within his final four holes to finish on 6-under-par. Scheffler however was unperturbed by the pressure and secured a tidy 2-under Sunday to win the tournament by 4 strokes clear of Griffin.

Scheffler praised the condition of the course in his post-round interview while also paying tribute to how special it is to win back-to-back at ‘Jack’s Place’:

“It was a great week. It’s always special to come here and play Mr Nicklaus’ tournament and the golf course was a great test this week. The rough was as healthy as I’d seen it. We’ve had that length of rough before but not the thickness, I mean it was pretty nasty and it was a good challenge, and it’s definitely fun to be sitting here.”

Scheffler has won three times in his last four tournament starts, emerging victorious at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson, the PGA Championship, and now the Memorial Tournament. He won 7 times on the PGA Tour last year, and with plenty more golf to play this year including 2 majors, whose to say he’s not on the way to matching or beating his 2024 efforts?

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