Jack’s Memorial Tournament is celebrating 50 years of immaculate golf. (Except for the one year he messed with the sand bunker rakes and ticked off all the golfers)
As expected, with this being our 3rd Major, a strong field is expected. A couple interesting no-shows:
- Will Zaltoris. Withdrew last week and not playing this week. Did he mess up his back again?
- Jason Doris Day. Like many golfers, he has many homes. But one is still in Westerville. Even at his worst, I figured he’d always have a sponsor exemption here. But sorry Big J. I don’t know why but he’s not playing.
- The biggest surprise comes from Manager Jim’s camp. Rory stepped back from PGA spokesperson work, promised to spend more time with family, won the Master’s, moved back to Ireland and has now decided to skip Jack’s show. Is Manager Jim leaving the door slightly open for the rest of us to make up some ground? That’s a confident manager that allows vacation leave to his top player.
Will any manager have a 40+ type of week in Dublin? Seems like it’s been building for a manager to break out. Can Scottie get some support from his team? Will a B-level player break out and surprise us all? Perhaps maybe even Nick Dunlap? OK - that’s getting a bit crazy. But know I’ll be out in official Commissioner duties at the tournament doing what I do best. Once I figure it out.
There will be a cut. Top 50 & ties plus anyone within 10 strokes of the lead.
Manager Golfers expected to play
Kevin Wyndham Hotels, Milton Bradley, grumpy Patrick Cantlay, Maverick “Talk to me Goose” McNealy
Jaustin Viktor Hovland, Akshay Bhatia, Cameron Young, Jimmy Conners, Byeong Hun An
PAK-Mon Hideki Matsuyama, Sungjae Im, Tony Finau, Nick Dunlap, Great Scott
B.T.O. Scottie, Max Homa, Jordan Spieth (sponsor exemption), lil Rickie (sponsor exemption)
Doug Breakfast Schauffele, Max Greyserman, Eric Cole, Matt Fitzpatrick, Aaron Rai, Spaun
Jim Justin Thomas, Fleetwood Mac, Captain Kirk
Big J Collin “Can he come through finally” Morikawa, Bobby MacIntyre, Shane Lowry, Matthieu Pavon, Min Woo Lee
Commish Ludvig Aberg, Don Henley, Denny’s, J.T. Poston, Sepp Straka, Daniel Berger