Fantasy Golf Tournament Preview- The Memorial Tournament

OVERVIEW
The Memorial is a Jack Nicklaus hosted event on a Jack Nicklaus designed course in Dublin, OH. The field is invite only, so with a smaller field comes the pressure of making sure your lineups get all 6 players through the cut to ensure you’re seeing green numbers come Sunday. Past winners here have been a mixture of strong players (Tiger has won here five times, Kenny Perry (3), and Greg Norman (2), as well as Major winners Justin Rose (not in the field), Tom Watson (2) Ernie Els, Vijay Singh, Jim Furyk, and Fred Couples and random pop-ups (William McGirt, David Lingmerth, KJ Choi, Carl Pettersson, and Bart Bryant) so “class” would be the guys I’d lean on this week, as well as players who are trending either in their career arc, or in form. If you’re looking for corollary courses, Augusta will pop up all week as one, but I’m not extremely hell-bent on only using that for my research. It helps, but I won’t be putting too much emphasis on that this week.

TOURNAMENT BACKGROUND

o The Course
• Muirfield Village Golf Club
• Par 72
• 7,392 yards
• Bentgrass greens
o Location: Dublin, Ohio
o Past Champions:
• 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 [-10]
• 2012: Tiger Woods -9 over Rory Sabbatini & Andres Romero [-7]

KEY STATS TO TARGET

o Strong Emphasis – SG: T2G, Par 4 Scoring, SG: APP, Birdie or Better %, Par 4 Scoring
o Important – Scrambling, SG: Putting

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