The Memorial Tournament 2024 Golf Odds And Picks

June tees off with the Memorial Tournament 2024 at Jack’s Place. I provide a full preview with odds, picks, insight and matchups (3-0 last two tournaments) in my PGA Tour coverage in Forbes. The 7,569 yard Par 72 at Muifield Village Golf Club will challenge a limted field of 72 top golfers (120 players last year), including 28 of the top 30 in the world rankings.

Muirfield Village Golf Club was the dream and work of Jack Nicklaus. The course was officially dedicated on Memorial Day, May 27, 1974, with an exhibition match between Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf. Nearly 50 years later, it’s one of the premier golf tournaments on the PGA Tour, and the 2024 tournament is a Signature Event with a $20 million prize pool and $4 million to the winner.

Renovation in 2020 included rebuilding of all 18 greens, relocation of several greens, contour changes on greens, rebuilding bunkers, leveling and seeding tees, relocating several tees, and renovating and seeding fairways.

A Muirfield course overview provides additional details, stats and toughest holes to monitor when watching and wagering on the Memorial Tournament.

Key Stats 

Approach play stats are still more significant than driving stats at Muirfield Village. Key stats from Fantasy National as researched and provided.

• Strokes Gained: Around the Green
• Strokes Gained: Approach and Ball Striking
• Strokes Gained: Putting (on bentgrass)
• Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green / Off the Tee
• Par-4 Scoring (focus 450-500 yards)
• Proximity to Hole (150-200+ yards)

Making birdies on Par 5’s is where scoring is made at Muirfield, and additional strokes gained data is in my tournament coverage in Forbes.

Memorial Tournament 2024 Picks

Fairway’s Favorites: McIlroy, Schauffele, Henley, Fleetwood
Fairway’s Longshots: Conners, Lowry, Byeong Hun An, Lee Hodges, Austin Eckroat

Tournament Match-ups: Byeong Hun An (-115) over Tom Kim (-115) – Caesars
Round 1 match-up: Rory McIlroy (+180) over Scottie Scheffler

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Past Memorial Tournament winners include Billy Horschel, who was an underdog and he won the tournament outright in 2022.

My coverage in Forbes has produced 3-0 tournament matchup results the last two tournaments in the RBC Canadian Open and Charles Schwab Challenge.

I’ll return next week to add more picks and match-ups for the RBC Canadian Open. Last year we had the winner Billy Horschel as our top match-up play for an easy winner.

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My golf coverage and research includes use and references from sites at Golf Stats along with Fantasy National and Data Golf. I gain added information and betting news with fantasy golf insight from FanShare Sports and other sites and golf analysts. That includes top golf insider Justin Ray Golf, who contributes to PGA Tour (dot com) and The Athletic with insightful stats. The site GolfStats has also has player performance charts and a player competitor tool plus added stats and previews.