Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio has hosted the Memorial Tournament every year since 1976, the longest unbroken non-major streak on the PGA Tour. The course is Jack Nicklaus’s most-personal design project — Nicklaus grew up 12 miles away in Upper Arlington, used Muirfield Village as his template for the 1980s Nicklaus Design international expansion, and continues to oversee the course’s evolution from his home on the property.
The original Nicklaus and Desmond Muirhead 1974 design was Nicklaus’s first solo design effort outside the joint work with Pete Dye on Harbour Town. The Nicklaus-Muirhead routing is essentially a tightening of the Augusta National template — generous fairways, framed by mature deciduous trees, opening into greens that are smaller than the modern Tour average and angled across the line of play. The course has been called ‘Augusta North’ by writers who have covered both venues; Nicklaus himself has resisted the comparison but acknowledges the architectural debt.
A major Nicklaus-led restoration in 2020-2021 tightened the rough lines, rebuilt every green-side bunker on the property, reduced the green sizes on the par-3 16th and par-4 18th, and added 250 yards of total length via tee additions on 10 of the 18 holes. The 18th, in particular, was reshaped to add a tier on the front-right portion of the green that has changed the strategic profile of the closing hole.
Scottie Scheffler has won the Memorial in 2024 and 2025, the first back-to-back winner since Tiger Woods (2000-2001). Scheffler’s 2024 win at -8 and 2025 at -10 stand as the two lowest winning scores at the venue since the par changed from 72 to 72 (rounding had varied between 70 and 72 in the 1990s as the 5th and 11th holes were briefly converted to par 4 then back).
The par-5 15th — 503 yards, a reachable two-shotter with water down the right and across the green — is the signature hole, with the highest eagle rate of any par 5 on the PGA Tour over the past five seasons. The 18th, the closing par-4, has averaged 4.31 strokes since 2010 — the most difficult finishing hole on the elevated-event schedule.
The 2026 Memorial purse is $20 million, with the winner’s share at $4 million and a 73-player limited field. The event runs 28-31 May, the week after the PGA Championship at Aronimink.