Fantasy Golf Tournament Preview- The Memorial

OVERVIEW
Using my new approach at trying to find a type of player to succeed this week seemed to work much better the past few weeks so we’re going to continue to look at the leaderboards through the years to determine the type of players we should be targeting. With winners like Tiger Woods (5x), Kenny Perry (3x), Tom Watson (2x) and Fred Couples’ track record at this course even as recently as 2005, it seems to me that experience on the course is key. Knowing how to play the breaks on the greens, and place your tee shots seems to be the most important factors which makes sense considering Jack designed the course similarly to Augusta National. Justin Rose has been a winner and runner-up here, as has Furyk, Rickie Fowler has been runner-up at this event twice in the last 8 years. The past five years have been dominated by ball strikers and strong long iron players in the likes of Dufner, McGirt, Lingmerth and Matsuyama. Kuchar’s win was basically the icing on the cake for him as he’s played extremely well on Nicklaus designed courses over his career and the win was imminent. The obvious player type to target would be Tiger Woods, but that player doesn’t exist as one player, but we can see his game in a lot of young stars this week. Whomever has their tee to green game the sharpest this week will be shaking Jack’s hand on Sunday, and I would love to see Tiger be that guy again.

TOURNAMENT BACKGROUND

o The Course
• Muirfield Village Golf Club
• Par 72
• 7,400 yards
• Bentgrass greens
o Location: Dublin, OH
o Corollary Courses: Augusta National (small correlation in the design of the course, undulating, fast greens)
o Past Champions:
• 2017: Jason Dufner -13 over Rickie Fowler & Anirban Lahiri
• 2016: William McGirt -15 in a playoff over Jon Curran
• 2015: David Lingmerth -15 in a playoff over Justin Rose
• 2014: Hideki Matsuyama -13 in a playoff over Kevin Na
• 2013: Matt Kuchar -12 over Kevin Chappell

KEY STATS TO TARGET

o Strong Emphasis – SG: Ball Striking/APP, Birdie or Better %, Par 5 Scoring
o Important – Scrambling, Fairways Gained/Driving Accuracy/Good drive %,

Sign up for an FGI account today to see the rest of this post.