About The Memorial Tournament

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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