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 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.
