A loaded PGA Tour field is in Dublin, Ohio, this week for the Memorial Tournament.
A renovated Muirfield Village Golf Club is the host venue as many of the world’s top golfers make their final tournament preparations for the 2021 U.S. Open, June 17-20. Below, we look at the 2021 Memorial Tournament odds and make our PGA Tour picks and predictions to win.
Five of the top-seven golfers in the Golfweek/Sagarin rankings (as of Monday, May 24) highlight the field, led by No. 1 and defending champion Jon Rahm. He’s this week’s betting favorite at +1000 while looking for his first win of 2021.
Muirfield Village, a 7,543-yard, par-72 course, hosted the Workday Charity Open and the Memorial in back-to-back weeks last summer. Since then putting surfaces have been redone, bunkers were rebuilt, and trees were added throughout the course.
Memorial Tournament picks – Favorite
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Patrick Cantlay (+2200)
Cantlay bounced back from a stretch of three straight missed cuts with a T-23 finish at the PGA Championship. He struggled on and around the greens, but he averaged 2.32 Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green per round for the week. He’s ninth among qualified golfers in SG: Tee-to-Green for the season.
Cantlay also leads this field with 2.81 strokes gained on the field per round over 20 career rounds at Muirfield Village. He tied for seventh at last year’s Workday Charity Open and finished T-32 in the Memorial.
He won this event by two strokes at 19-under par in 2019. He was top-five in SG: Tee-to-Green, SG Approach and SG: Around-the-Green for the tournament.
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Memorial Tournament picks – Contender
Sungjae Im (+5000)
Im is No. 32 in the Golfweek rankings and shares the 19th-best odds to win this week. He tied for 57th at the 2019 Memorial Tournament but missed the cut last year following a 63rd-place finish at the Workday Charity Open. He missed the cut last week at the Charles Schwab Challenge following a T-17 result at the PGA Championship.
Im is 14th on Tour in driving accuracy for the 2020-21 season and should be well-equipped to the tighter fairways. He has also been putting very well this season as players take on the new greens of Muirfield Village for the first time this week.
Memorial Tournament picks – Long shot
Matt Kuchar (+10000)
Kuchar won here in 2013 following a runner-up finish in 2011. His 54 career rounds played at MVGC rank third in this field and his 2.53 strokes gained per round are the second most among those with at least 10 rounds played.
He’s tied for 23rd in driving accuracy and was beginning to show signs of his old form prior to a missed cut at the PGA Championship.
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