2018 Recap & Results

Memorial Tournament Winner - Bryson DeChambeau

Dates

May 31 - June 3

Purse

$8,900,000

Par

36-36=72

Yardage

7,392

Bryson DeChambeau Wins the 2018 Memorial Tournament


Winning the 43rd edition of the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide was special to Bryson DeChambeau for a number of reasons. It was his second PGA TOUR title in as many years. It came in one of the elite events on TOUR hosted by legend Jack Nicklaus. It was populated by one of the year’s strongest fields.

And DeChambeau had to earn it, overcoming a bogey on the 72nd hole to fall into a playoff, but then outplaying Kyle Stanley and Byeong Hun An in sudden death to earn a handshake from the Golden Bear, not to mention $1.602 million.

DeChambeau didn’t have close to his A-game on June 3 for the final round of the Memorial, but his short game and putting were good enough until he beat An on the second playoff hole with a 12-foot birdie putt on the same 18th green where he had three-putted at the end of regulation.

After missing the 18th green his first two tries on Sunday - the first costing him a bogey that dropped him into a playoff with An and Kyle Stanley - DeChambeau got it right the third time, drawing an 8-iron to 12 feet above the hole and sinking the decisive birdie putt for his second PGA Tour title.

When the putt dropped, DeChambeau excitedly pumped both arms in rapid-fire fashion.

“That was a big celebration there,” said DeChambeau, 24, who apparently likes golf in central Ohio even though he hails from Clovis, Calif. Each of the previous three years DeChambeau qualified for the U.S. Open via sectional qualifying at Columbus-area courses. 

DeChambeau, the 54-hole leader, carded a final-round 71 at Muirfield Village Golf Club to finish at 15-under 273 before winning the first three-way playoff in Memorial history and the fourth playoff in the last five years. Stanley, the second round co-leader, had a 70 while An shot 69.

The win propelled DeChambeau to fourth in the FedEx Cup standings and eighth in the U.S. Ryder Cup standings, a goal that tops all others for the second-year tour member. But the real prize for golf’s deepest thinker is backing up last year’s victory in the John Deere Classic with another win, one that came with Tournament Founder and Host Jack Nicklaus looking on and against a field that included eight of the top 10 in the world rankings and five-time Memorial winner Tiger Woods.

“To be able to win on Jack's course is pretty special,” said DeChambeau after his fifth top-five finish of the season, most on tour. “I know coming here a couple years ago I wanted to do it then - my game wasn't near good enough to win - so it's taken a couple years for me to get to that caliber and I was fortunate enough to be able to come out victorious here at Jack's course, which, again, I'll say it time and time again, this is probably the most important win I think of my entire career, because of the fact that it happened here at Jack's course and also because it's kind of validity to me being out here on TOUR as well, me being able to get the job done. I know I can do it consistently.”

And not even with his best stuff. He saved par from off the green 17 of 21 times, thanks mostly to leading the field in strokes gained-putting.

“I kind of grinded it out,” he said.

“That's right, you grind it out and sometimes that's what you got to do,” Nicklaus said. “But you know, if your driver's not working, your putter better be working. And if your putter's not working, everything else must be working. But he had the right club working today and that was his flat club.”

The win came one year after DeChambeau didn’t even make the field at Muirfield Village because of a deepening slump. He was in the midst of missing eight cuts in a row and 13 in his first 17 starts of the year, a string that ended with a poor U.S. Open performance. 

“That was tough a tough pill to swallow. Because I felt like I didn't belong out here for a little bit,” said DeChambeau, one of five players (including Nicklaus) to win the U.S. Amateur and NCAA title in the same year. “But I was able to go back home that weekend and look myself hard in the face and mirror and say, ‘Look, you have to figure out something if you want to stay out here.’ And so, I went back to the drawing board, kind of figured something out, and ultimately wound up winning the John Deere four weeks later.”

The Memorial title was bigger, however, primarily because of the quality of the golf course and the strength of the field. Not only did eight of the top 10 in the world compete, but six of them finished in the top 15, while Woods, who was lurking all weekend thanks to great ball-striking, ended up tied for 23rd. DeChambeau had to fight off a decorated bunch.

“Any time you get to compete against the best players in the world - and I think Jack you alluded to this is the best field you've had -- to be able to have this type of caliber all chasing is kind of special,” DeChambeau said with a relieved smile. “I knew I had to go out there and play well.”

He played well enough. He found a way.

# Name R1 R2 R3 R4 Total Purse
1 Bryson DeChambeau 69 67 66 71 273 $1,602,000
2 Byeong Hun An 68 67 69 69 273 $783,200
Kyle Stanley 67 66 70 70 273 $783,200
4 Patrick Cantlay 68 69 66 71 274 $427,200
5 Peter Uihlein 69 70 70 66 275 $356,000
6 Joaquin Niemann 65 68 70 73 276 $309,275
Justin Rose 71 66 69 70 276 $309,275
8 Rory McIlroy 74 70 64 69 277 $240,300
Rickie Fowler 72 69 68 68 277 $240,300
Patrick Rodgers 68 73 68 68 277 $240,300
Justin Thomas 72 69 68 68 277 $240,300
Dustin Johnson 72 66 72 67 277 $240,300
13 J.B. Holmes 70 66 71 71 278 $139,018
Hideki Matsuyama 65 71 71 71 278 $139,018
Kiradech Aphibarnrat 71 68 69 70 278 $139,018
Ryan Moore 71 69 68 70 278 $139,018
Tom Hoge 71 67 70 70 278 $139,018
Louis Oosthuizen 70 69 74 65 278 $139,018
Henrik Stenson 71 66 72 69 278 $139,018
Phil Mickelson 74 66 70 68 278 $139,018
Tony Finau 71 68 72 67 278 $139,018
Matt Kuchar 71 68 72 67 278 $139,018
23 Tiger Woods 72 67 68 72 279 $76,985
Keegan Bradley 68 70 70 71 279 $76,985
Emiliano Grillo 72 69 68 70 279 $76,985
Gary Woodland 69 68 75 67 279 $76,985
Martin Laird 72 66 72 69 279 $76,985
Ryan Armour 68 70 72 69 279 $76,985
29 Whee Kim 73 67 67 73 280 $56,589
David Lingmerth 69 73 66 72 280 $56,589
Julian Suri 71 67 70 72 280 $56,589
Si Woo Kim 71 67 70 72 280 $56,589
Patrick Reed 71 68 73 68 280 $56,589
Russell Henley 71 73 68 68 280 $56,589
35 Kelly Kraft 73 68 70 70 281 $46,948
Adam Scott 72 66 70 73 281 $46,948
37 Luke List 71 67 73 71 282 $41,830
Anirban Lahiri 71 69 69 73 282 $41,830
Jamie Lovemark 67 73 73 69 282 $41,830
40 Alex Cejka 69 70 72 72 283 $35,600
Jhonattan Vegas 75 67 68 73 283 $35,600
Chesson Hadley 73 70 71 69 283 $35,600
Zach Johnson 75 69 72 67 283 $35,600
44 Bubba Watson 71 67 77 69 284 $25,721
Kevin Streelman 74 68 72 70 284 $25,721
John Huh 75 69 69 71 284 $25,721
Rory Sabbatini 73 66 73 72 284 $25,721
Russell Knox 74 69 69 72 284 $25,721
Beau Hossler 66 71 74 73 284 $25,721
Jason Day 68 68 74 74 284 $25,721
Brian Gay 69 71 71 73 284 $25,721
52 Shane Lowry 73 69 73 70 285 $20,755
Wesley Bryan 68 68 72 77 285 $20,755
Lucas Glover 67 74 72 72 285 $20,755
Chris Kirk 75 69 66 75 285 $20,755
Branden Grace 69 71 70 75 285 $20,755
57 Sung Kang 74 67 74 71 286 $19,758
Ted Potter, 72 70 73 71 286 $19,758
Abraham Ancer 65 75 73 73 286 $19,758
Nick Watney 71 69 70 76 286 $19,758
Bill Haas 70 69 72 75 286 $19,758
62 Marc Leishman 74 70 67 76 287 $19,046
Andrew Dorn 69 74 73 71 287 $19,046
Brice Garnett 74 68 73 72 287 $19,046
65 Andrew Landry 71 73 68 76 288 $18,423
Charles Howell III 73 70 71 74 288 $18,423
Ollie Schniederjans 73 69 73 73 288 $18,423
Kevin Tway 75 67 74 72 288 $18,423
69 Vijay Singh 75 66 73 75 289 $17,978
70 Brian Stuard 72 70 72 76 290 $17,622
Pat Perez 72 70 74 74 290 $17,622
Yusaku Miyazato 73 71 70 76 290 $17,622
73 Grayson Murray 67 72 74 81 294 $17,266
74 John Senden 73 69 75 217 $16,732
Patton Kizzire 72 72 73 217 $16,732
Kevin Kisner 70 74 73 217 $16,732
Adam Hadwin 74 70 73 217 $16,732
Yuta Ikeda 76 68 73 217 $16,732
79 Rod Pampling 73 70 75 218 $16,198
80 Robert Streb 71 72 80 223 $16,020
81 Sam Burns 73 71 81 225 $15,842

Leaders

First Round
Abraham Ancer 65 (-7)
Joaquin Niemann 65 (-7)
Hideki Matsuyama 65 (-7)
Beau Hossler 66 (-6)
Bryson DeChambeau 69 (T16)

Second Round
Kyle Stanley 133 (-11)
Joaquin Niemann 133 (-11)
Byeong Hun An 135 (-9)
Wesley Bryan 136 (-8)
Hideki Matsuyama 136 (-8)
Jason Day 136 (-8)
J.B. Holmes 136 (-8)
Bryson DeChambeau 136 (-8)

Third Round
Bryson DeChambeau 202 (-14)
Patrick Cantlay 203 (-13)
Kyle Stanley 203 (-13)
Joaquin Niemann 203 (-13)
Byeong Hun An 204 (-12)
Justin Rose 206 (-10)

Notes

Cut Notes:

81 professionals made the 36-hole cut at even-par 144 from a field of 119 professionals and one amateur. The 54-hole cut came

Weather:

Thursday: Partly cloudy with a high of 88. SW wind at 10-15 mph, gusting to 20 mph. Friday: Overcast with scattered showers and an afternoon thunderstorm which caused a 1 hour, 28-minute delay. High of mid-80s. WNW wind at 5-10 mph. Saturday: Partly cloudy becoming sunny later in the day. High of 80. N wind at 10-15 mph. Sunday: Cloudy with a high of 81. Wind W 10-15 mph with gusts of 25 mph.

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