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The US PGA Tour moves to Dublin, Ohio at the Muirfield Village Golf Club for the Memorial Tournament.
The Memorial Tournament is the Jack Nicklaus tournament, it is played on the Muirfield golf course which was designed by Nicklaus and it is played in Dublin which is a suburb of Nicklaus home town of Columbus.

Memorial Tournament Purse: $6 million
Memorial Tournament Prize Money $1.08 million
FedExCup Points: 25,000
Defending Champion: K.J. Choi

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UK Coverage on Setanta Sports

The memorial tourney has attracted 7 of the worlds top 10 although Tiger woods is still out injured.
Phil Mickelson will enter the muirfield tournament riding high after his last hole win at Fort Worth. Ernie Els has decided to play having made a u turn on a decision to not play this week. Sergio Garcia returns to the tour for the first time since his win at Sawgrass at the TPC Players Championship.

Previous Winners of memorial championship

Year Player Country
2007 K.J. Choi South Korea
2006 Carl Pettersson Sweden
2005 Bart Bryant United States
2004 Ernie Els South Africa
2003 Kenny Perry United States
2002 Jim Furyk United States
2001 Tiger Woods United States
2000 Tiger Woods United States
1999 Tiger Woods United States
1998 Fred Couples United States
1997 Vijay Singh Fiji
1996 Tom Watson United States
1995 Greg Norman Australia
1994 Tom Lehman United States
1993 Paul Azinger United States
1992 David Edwards United States
1991 Kenny Perry United States
1990 Greg Norman Australia
1989 Bob Tway United States
1988 Curtis Strange United States
1987 Don Pooley United States
1986 Hal Sutton United States
1985 Hale Irwin United States
1984 Jack Nicklaus United States
1983 Hale Irwin United States
1982 Raymond Floyd United States
1981 Keith Fergus United States
1980 David Graham Australia
1979 Tom Watson United States
1978 Jim Simons United States
1977 Jack Nicklaus United States
1976 Roger Maltbie United States

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