The Memorial tournament is a golf competition, which makes part of the PGA (the Professional
Golfers Association) tournament. The PGA Tour is the operator of the American major professional
mens golf tours. Beginning with 1968, it became absolutely separate from the PGA of America (the
Professional Golfers Association of America), which is the association of club professional
players. The PGA Tour doesnt include womens golf tours in America. The later are controlled by
the LPGA (the Ladies Professional Golf Association).
This tournament is closely connected with the name of Jack Nicklaus. The matches are held at the
Muirfield Village Golf Club course, which was designed by Nicklaus. The golf course stretches
across Muirfield Village. There is also a statue that features Jack teaching a little boy to play
golf. Nicklaus always said that Columbus and Dublin represent the crossroads of all his life, both
personal and professional. He was born in Columbus, and there he was raised and started his family.
In Columbus he started to play golf.
Jack Nicklaus always loved and respected golf; he nurtured his idea to create a golf club, and
to hold golf tournaments there. He wanted to organize a tournament that would honor famous golf
players, as well as those people who helped to build the foundation to the game. Only in May 1976
he managed to make his wish come true, and the first golf tournament was held, it was called the
Memorial Tournament. Nowadays the Memorial Tournament is played and watched by millions of people
all over the world. Jack Nicklaus also desired to give back by making charitable donations to
adults and children who are in need, especially throughout Columbus and Ohio. The major
institution, which benefits from the charity, is Columbus Childrens Hospital.
The first winners of the Memorial Tournament were Roger Maltbie (1976), Jack Nicklaus (1977),
Jim Simons (1978), and the legendary Tom Watson (1979). The eighties brought another pleiad of
professional golf players, like David Graham, Keith Fergus, Hale Irwin (a two-time winner), Hal
Sutton, Don Pooley, Curtis Strange, and Bob Tway. During the nineties, golf became very popular
among sports fans and the professional players, and thus new golf stars appeared, who managed to
win the Memorial Tournament: Greg Norman (won in 1990 and 1995), Kenny Perry, David Edwards, Paul
Azinger, Tom Lehman, Tom Watson, Vijay Singh, and Fred Couples. In 1999, Tiger Woods became the
winner of the Memorial Tournament. Theres hardly anyone who has never heard this name, the name of
probably the most successful golfer ever. Carl Pettersson won the 2006 Memorial Tournament.
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