2015 Memorial Tournament Picks

This week, the PGA Tour stops off at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio for Jack Nicklaus' own Memorial Tournament. This tournament, like the Arnold Palmer Invitational, is only one of five tournaments on tour with "invitational" status. This means that it's a restricted event, in this case guaranteeing invites to the top-75 players on last year's money list. While it doesn't give out the biggest monetary prize, it's winner receives a three year exemption on the PGA Tour.

Murfield Village Golf Club is a course also designed by Jack Nicklaus which opened in 1976. Over the years it has been host to some of golf's most coveted events, such as the Ryder Cup in 1987, the Solheim Cup in 1998, and more recently, the Presidents Cup in 2013. In a tournament setting, it usually plays to just under 7,400 yards, with the shortest par 3 playing to 184 yards.

The field is once again dense with talent and great golfers. After all, you have to be playing good golf (as of last year) just to get invited to the tournament. With that in mind, here are our picks for this week:

1) Bill Hass
2) Chris Kirk
3) Kevin Na

Bill Haas has had great finishes at Muirfield Village in the past and also finished T4 at this year's Players Championship. Kirk is playing hot golf at the moment with three T20's in just his last three starts. He also finished T4 here last year. Speaking of good golf at the moment, Kevin Na rounds out our picks. He nearly won this event last year, but lost in a playoff to Hideki Matsuyama.

Tiger Woods will also be in the field this week, so naturally the entire golf world (and most of the media coverage probably) will be focused on him.

Play kicks off early tomorrow morning but stay tuned Friday for our Weekend Update post to see who's leading going into the weekend.


-Nick
Toronto Golf Reviews

 Given his play so far this year, Kevin Na may win his second PGA Tour event this week

Photo: Lm Otera/Associated Press