The wind huffed and puffed and blew some golfers right out of the field at the 2024 Memorial Tournament.
Big names, too. Muirfield Village Golf Club is never a piece of cake but even players at or near the top of the leaderboard used words like, “tough,” “difficult,” and “hard” to describe the course that Jack Nicklaus built near his hometown in Dublin, Ohio.
Major winners, pros ranked in the top 10 in the world and fan favorites failed to make the cut at one of three signature events with a 36-hole cut on the PGA Tour. It took 4-over 148 for the 51 pros and one amateur to advance to play the weekend with the 73-man field cut to the low 50 and ties and any other players within 10 strokes of the lead after two rounds. That 36-hole aggregate is the highest cut relative to par in a non-major on Tour this season.
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Here’s a closer look at those who were sent home packing.
Jordan Spieth walks the fourth hole during the first round of the 2024 Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club. (Photo: Adam Cairns-USA TODAY Sports)
Spieth missed the cut for just the second time in 12 career starts at the Memorial. It’s his fifth missed cut in 15 starts. (Four start had no cut and he also has a DQ.)
It was a strange statistical week for the three-time major champ. He ranked first in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee but dead last in SG: Around the Green. He was just 7 of 17 in scrambling. On Friday he started with a double bogey at the first and rounds of 74-75 sent him packing and with the weekend off ahead of the U.S. Open next week.
Ben Griffin (right) and Jake Knapp line up their putts on the 18th green during the first round of the 2024 Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club. (Photo: Barbara J. Perenic-USA TODAY Sports)
Griffin was planning to have eye surgery this week before he finished second at the RBC Canadian Open and got into the field through the AON Swing 5.
Griffin shot 76-73 to miss the cut for the second straight year at the Memorial. It was his sixth missed cut in 20 events this season. Griffin struggled on the green. He ranked 69th in SG: Putting, losing more than four strokes to the field on the green.
Wyndham Clark plays his shot from the first tee during the first round of the 2024 Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club. (Photo: Adam Cairns-USA TODAY Sports)
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