Brooks Koepka He was the last of the great players to jump on the bandwagon. Memorial Tournament. It was not in his plans, he had not signed up, but a few minutes before the deadline and after finishing his round in the Workday Charity Open With five birdies over seven holes, he decided it wouldn’t be a bad idea to continue playing next week. The cut has failed, but that ending has changed his perspective.
Jon: another very well worked fatiguitas Friday
With the landing of Koepka it turns out that the Memorial Tournament of Nicklaus will feature the nine best players in the world, 17 of the 20 and 43 of the 50. The only absences are those of those players who have decided not to travel to the United States yet, reserving for the WGC FedEX and the PGA (Adam Scott, Henrik Stenson, Lee Westwood, Francesco Molinari, Tommy Fleetwood y Shigo Imahira) and the surprising drop in Tyrrell Hatton.
Return of Tiger Woods and Bernd Wiesberger
Obviously, the most popular name in the Memorial is that of Tiger Woods, which returns to the official competition since last February. Less noise than him, although it is also an important return, has generated the Austrian Bernd Wiesberger, who has not played since the stoppage due to coronavirus. Of course, we will also have the three Spaniards in Muirfield Village, Jon Rahm, which repeats after Workday, and Sergio garcia Y Rafa Cabrera Bello, which are incorporated after two weeks of rest.
Rahm will start this Saturday from the 10th tee in the last matches of the day
Thus, with this participation, it is expected that the winner of the Memorial will take 76 world ranking points, which makes this tournament the ‘Sixth big’. Since 2013 only THE PLAYERS, which gives 80 by default, and the four Big ones, which give 100, award more points to the winner. In the last 20 years, in addition to Grandes and THE PLAYERS, only three tournaments gave the winner more points (78). Were the WGC Cadillac Championship of 2012 that Justin Rose won, the WGC CA Championship from 2009 who won Phil Mickelson and the NEC Invitational 2003 that Darren Clarke took away. Ready for a week of long shots.
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