PGA Tour Expert Picks: The Memorial
Tiger Woods is back, Rory McIlroy is out and Bill Haas (??) is the pick this week at Muirfield Village.
The PGA Tour is at Muirfield Village this week which brings about an idea I had. The PGA Tour should take half its FedEx Cup money and put it in a pool to be distributed to the low golfer at a combination of the three best courses on tour. Riviera, Colonial and Muirfield Village are the three courses that come to my mind, but I could be talked into others.
It would be a Champions League of sorts and really up the ante for those fields. You would have the added sideshow of, say, Jordan Spieth and Henrik Stenson battling on Sunday at Muirfield Village for $5 million while Hideki Matsuyama proceeded to go back-to-back at Jack's place.
Just an idea.
Let's take a look at this tournament:
What: The Memorial
Where: Dublin, Ohio
When: Thursday-Sunday (June 4-7)
How to watch (all times Eastern): Golf Channel (Thursday, Friday from 2:30-6:30 p.m., Saturday from 12:30-2:30 p.m. and Sunday from 12-2 p.m.) and CBS (Saturday from 3-6 p.m. and Sunday from 2:30-6 p.m.) CBSSports.com (Thursday, Friday from 8 a.m. - 7 p.m., Saturday, Sunday from 9 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.)
Participants and odds
Jordan Spieth: 7-1
Dustin Johnson: 14-1
Justin Rose: 16-1
Hideki Matsuyama: 18-1
Rickie Fowler: 20-1
Jim Furyk: 22-1
Matt Kuchar: 22-1
Jason Day: 25-1
Phil Mickelson: 25-1
Tiger Woods: 25-1
Field strength: A
Uh, yes please. This field is rife with big names and young guns, both of which I can get excited about. Especially at a track like Muirfield Village.
Story to watch: It shouldn't necessarily be a story, and yet it will be the biggest one at Muirfield Village this week. Tiger Woods is back after three weeks off from playing competitively.
He did make a trek up to Chambers Bay to scout for the US Open, but he's been quiet besides that. He's won this tournament five times. If he wins again this year, and I don't think that's totally out of the question, the furor for the US Open will be ratcheted up to a 14 on a scale of 1-to-10.

Past winners
2014: Hideki Matsuyama
2013: Matt Kuchar
2012: Tiger Woods
2011: Steve Stricker
2010: Justin Rose
Have mercy, that's a list. Big Cat has won this thing five times while Kenny Perry (?) has won it three times. Other champs include Fred Couples, Jim Furyk and Vijay Singh. The winner this year will be somebody you've heard of.
Let's pick this tournament.
Expert picks
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