Honorees
The Memorial Tournament Honorees
The Memorial Tournament is themed each year around a person, living or dead, who has contributed to the game of golf.
This was Jack Nicklaus' idea as a contribution to perpetuating achievements of the game's greatest individuals. The honoree is selected by the Captains Club, a group of statesmen who act independently of the tournament organization, but who also advise on player invitations and the conduct of the event generally. The 2020/2021 Honoree is Nick Price.
Memorial Park along the 1st fairway commemorates each Honoree of the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide
Members of the Captains Club
- Peter Alliss
- Paul Azinger
- Judy Bell
- Peter Bevacqua
- Sir Michael Bonallack
- O. Gordon Brewer, Jr.
- The Honorable George H.W. Bush
- Sir Sean Connery
- Mike Davis
- Sandy Dawson
- Timothy Finchem
- Dr. Trey Holland
- Juli Inkster
- Hale Irwin
- Tony Jacklin
- Ken Lindsay
- H. Colin Maclaine
- Charles S. Mechem, Jr.
- Jay Monahan
- Barbara Nicklaus
- Andy North
- Hisamitsu Ohnishi
- Gary Player
- Judy Rankin
- Fred S. Ridley
- Johann Rupert
- Carol Semple Thompson
- Tom Watson
All Honorees
P = POSTHUMOUS
- 2019 — Judy Rankin
- 2018 — Hale Irwin
- 2018 (P) — Jock Hutchison & Willie Turnesa
- 2017 — Greg Norman
- 2017 (P) — Tony Lema, Ken Venturi & Harvie Ward
- 2016 — Johnny Miller
- 2016 (P) — Leo Diegel & Horton Smith
- 2015 — Sir Nick Faldo
- 2015 (P) — Dorothy Campbell, Jerome Travers, Walter Travis
- 2014 — Annika Sorenstam, Jim Barnes, Joe Carr, Willie Park, Sr.
- 2013 — Raymond Floyd
- 2012 — Tom Watson
- 2011 — Nancy Lopez
- 2010 — Severiano Ballesteros
- 2009 — JoAnne Carner & Jackie Burke, Jr.
- 2008 — Tony Jacklin, Ralph Guldahl, Charles Blair MacDonald, Craig Wood
- 2007 — Louise Suggs & Dow Finsterwald
- 2006 — Michael Bonallack, Charles Coe, William Lawson Little, Jr., Henry Picard, Paul Runyan & Densmore Shute
- 2005 — Betsy Rawls & Cary Middlecoff
- 2004 — Lee Trevino & Joyce Wethered
- 2003 — Julius Boros & William Campbell
- 2002 — Kathy Whitworth & Bobby Locke
- 2001 — Payne Stewart
- 2000 — Jack Nicklaus
- 1999 — Ben Hogan
- 1998 — Peter Thomson
- 1997 — Gary Player
- 1996 — Billy Casper
- 1995 — Willie Anderson, John Ball, James Braid, Harold Hilton & J.H. Taylor
- 1994 — Mickey Wright
- 1993 — Arnold Palmer
- 1992 — Joseph C. Dey, Jr.
- 1991 — Babe Zaharias
- 1990 — Jimmy Demaret
- 1989 — Sir Henry Cotton
- 1988 — Patty Berg
- 1987 — Tom Morris, Sr. & Tom Morris, Jr.
- 1986 — Robert De Vicenzo
- 1985 — Charles "Chick" Evans
- 1984 — Sam Snead
- 1983 — Tommy Armour
- 1982 — Glenna Collette Vare
- 1981 — Harry Vardon
- 1980 — Byron Nelson
- 1979 — Gene Sarazen
- 1978 — Francis Ouimet
- 1977 — Walter Hagen
- 1976 — Robert Tyre Jones, Jr.
