He Memorial Tournament starts this Thursday (Movistar Golf). It is one of the best tournaments in the world. PGA Tour. Created by a living legend Jack Nicklaus in 1976 and it is played every year without interruption. Even in 2020, when the calendar was changed due to the Covid pandemic. And that year he won Jon Rahm.
It is played on Muirfield Village Golf Club, in Dublin (Ohio) with a bag of prizes up for grabs in this edition 20 million dollarsand where Spanish golf will be represented by Rahm, who will return to the circuit after the PGA Championship two weeks ago.
For the Basque, the Memorial, which is another of the PGA Tour’s ‘designated’ events and brings together seven of the top 10 in the world ranking, and 38 of the top 50, has a special meaning. After winning it in 2020 he became for the first time in his career World Number One. The following year, he had to retire after the third day after testing positive for Covid. He leads by six strokes and loses to Patrick Cantlay. Jon was told positively as soon as he left the 18th hole green. Tough and cruel because he also missed the tokyo olympics.
However, this week the man from Barrika has options to regain the leadership of the world ranking that he gave up after the PGA in a scottie scheffler whose last 14 PGA Tour results were notable: 3rd at Colonial, 2nd at PGA, 5th at Byron Nelson, 11th at Hilton Head, 10th at Masters, semifinalist at World Match Play Championship, champion at The Players, 4th at Bay Hill, 12th at Riviera Genesis, champion at Phoenix, 11th at Amex, 7th at Tournament of Champions and, new in 2022, 9th at Houston and 3rd at World Wide Technology. Not surprisingly, he is the player with the most top ten finishes in a season on the PGA Tour, 11, followed by Rahm, Max Homa and xander schauffelewith 8.
Therefore, recovering number 1 is not an easy task. The numbers produced by the world ranking guru on Twitter, Nosferatu, say that Jon has only two outcomes to return to the top of the rankings: win or finish second alone. Also, once this is achieved, it depends on what Scheffler will do. The Memorial will award 64.8 OGWR points to the winner, which could cause a lot of movement in the world rankings. In any case, Rahm can be sure that McIlroy, number 3 in the world, will not reach him even if he wins the tournament.
They didn’t miss LIV
Jon is in good shape. His four victories in four months, including the Masters at Augusta, endorsed him. Also, Muirfield Village, the Golden Bear’s second home, suits him well and he always plays well there. In addition to Rahm and Scheffler Nicklaus is welcome Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay, Matt Fitzpatrick, Collin Morikawa, Hideki Matsuyama, Jordan Spieth, Viktor Hovland either xander schauffeleBesides others.
As stated in previous hours, Nicklaus did not miss the cracks that deviated from LIV, read, without going any further, Brooks Koepkawon two weeks ago the PGA, cameron smithBritish Open 2022 winner, o dustin johnson and Bryson DeChambeauthis 2018 Memorial champion.
The Memorial can be seen live on the Golf channel on Movistar+, Thursday and Friday from 6:00 pm to 12:00 am On weekends, from 6:30 pm to 12:00 am
Source: La Verdad
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