The 2022 Memorial Tournament: PGA Tour Betting Odds
Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm are favoured on the golf odds.
Unfortunately, we have to address who isn’t here because they are the biggest stars in golf: Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. Tiger annually plays this event if healthy because he grew up worshipping Nicklaus and hoping to beat his major championship record. Alas, Woods may never be fully healthy again and his schedule will be very limited going forward. The five-time Memorial champion isn’t even a sure thing for the upcoming U.S. Open (although we think he plays).
Mickelson hasn’t played in months because of non-health reasons and also isn’t even a sure thing for the U.S. Open (we think he plays). This will be the final event for a handful of players ahead of the U.S. Open – sadly meaning they will skip next week’s Canadian Open).
Because this is technically an invitational, the field is limited to approximately 120 players. One spot annual goes to the NCAA Player of the Year from the previous year as said player earns the Jack Nicklaus Award. Nicklaus’ Muirfield Village Golf Club is the host course. It’s a par 72 at around 7,540 yards.
The defending champion is American Patrick Cantlay. He birdied No. 17 on Sunday to tie Collin Morikawa at 13 under and then beat Morikawa in a playoff on the first extra hole with a 12-foot par putt and Morikawa making bogey. Jon Rahm was leading by six shots after 54 holes but had to withdraw after his third round due to a positive COVID test. His first positive test came while he was still on the course and a requested confirmatory test also came back positive as Rahm was finishing.
This week the #PGATour heads to Jack Nicklaus’ Muirfield Village for the 2022 Memorial Tournament.
The event starts on Thursday in Dublin, Ohio, and seven of the world’s top 10 golfers will be in attendance. @ZeeManGolf gives us his top takes. pic.twitter.com/6vdAO5kMEa
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The Memorial Tournament Golf Odds
Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm are both +1000 favourites. As noted above, Rahm almost surely would have won last year if not for testing positive for COVID. He did win here by three shots in 2020. Rahm comes off a disappointing T48 at the PGA Championship. McIlroy was eighth at that event. He’s looking for his first win at the Memorial and was T18 last year.
Patrick Cantlay is +1600 to repeat. Tiger Woods is the only player to go back-to-back here – he won it three straight times starting in 1999 and five times overall. Cantlay also won this event in 2019 and is looking to join Tiger and Kenny Perry as players who have won the Memorial three times or more.
Jordan Spieth and Collin Morikawa are both +1700. Spieth’s best result at the Memorial is T3 and Morikawa’s a runner-up last year. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, who lost in a playoff at Colonial on Sunday to Sam Burns, is not playing. Neither is Burns.
No Canadians have won this tournament. Mike Weir was one of four runners-up in 2008, two shots behind Kenny Perry. Nick Taylor was the top finisher last year at T42, with Corey Conners T53. Adam Hadwin and Mackenzie Hughes missed the cut. Conners is +4000 this week with Hadwin +10100, Hughes +13400 and Adam Svensson +27500.
The Memorial Tournament Golf Predictions
Like Cantlay and Rahm for Top 10s, but we’ll go with Patrick Reed to win at +4500. He has been fifth and 10th his past two visits and comes off a T7 at Colonial on Sunday.
