2025 Recap & Results

Memorial Tournament Winner - Scottie Scheffler

Dates

May 26 - June 1

Purse

$20,000,000

Par

36-36=72

Yardage

7,569

Scottie Scheffler joins Tiger Woods as only repeat winners at Memorial

By Doug Ferguson, Associated Press


DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Scottie Scheffler is winning with such alarming regularity that describing his dominance is not a comfortable topic. So when he won the Memorial on Sunday for the second straight year, he at least had tournament host Jack Nicklaus at his side.

Nicklaus is a great authority when it comes to Scheffler because the Golden Bear sees so much of himself in the world’s No. 1 player.

“Once I got myself into position to win, then you’ve got to be smart about how you finish it,” Nicklaus said after watching Scheffler turn a tussle into a four-shot victory. “And that’s the way he’s playing. He reminds me so much of the way I like to play.”

That’s how it transpired again at tough Muirfield Village, just the way it played out when Scheffler won the PGA Championship two weeks ago.

He’s always there. He rarely makes a mistake. Blink and the lead is up to four shots.

Scheffler never lost the lead and never gave anyone much of a chance down the stretch in another relentless performance. He closed with a 2-under 70 in conditions that felt like a dress rehearsal for the U.S. Open. He was the only player to break par all four days.

Scheffler, who won for the ninth straight time with a 54-hole lead, joined Tiger Woods as the only repeat winners of the Memorial. Woods won three in a row (1999-2001) among his five titles at Muirfield Village.

This wasn’t his best golf. Scheffler did have a birdie putt until the fifth hole and only hit four of the first 10 greens in regulation. Coming off a bogey from the rough on the 10th hole — his only bogey in the last 40 holes — his lead was one shot over Ben Griffin.

Scheffler had a birdie putt from just inside 15 feet on the par-5 11th. Griffin chipped to 4 feet for a birdie chance. Scheffler made, Griffin missed. Scheffler his the middle of the green on the next two holes. Griffin missed them and made bogey.

The lead was four shots.

“Only one bogey around this place is pretty good,” Scheffler said. “I hit a lot of fairways. I definitely wasn’t in the rough very much. I think I hit it in the rough off of 10, but outside of that, I don’t think I was really in the rough at all. Around this place, that’s going to be key.”

He made it all sound so simple, even if it never feels that way.

“It’s always a hard week,” said Scheffler, who finished at 10-under 278. “We battled really hard on the weekend. Overall it was a great week.”

Griffin tried to make it interesting at the end with a 12-foot eagle on the par-5 15th (after Scheffler narrowly missed his 15-foot eagle try) and a 25-foot birdie putt on the par-3 16th (Scheffler’s birdie putt was one turn from falling).

That pulled him to within two shots with two to play. Scheffler, however, doesn’t make mistakes. Fairway and green on 17th, fairway and green on the 18th.

Griffin made double bogey on the 17th.

“I’m definitely proving further more that I belong at the top in this game,” Griffin said. “I won twice the last five weeks and those feelings are fun on Sunday nights when you’re signing a bunch of flags. I was prepared to do that today and ultimately just didn’t execute how I wanted to to get it done.”

Griffin made a 4-foot par on the 18th for a 73 to finish alone in second, worth $2.2 million, more than what he earned when he won at Colonial last week.

Sepp Straka (70) finished another shot back.

“You know Scottie’s probably going to play a good round of golf. The guy’s relentless. He loves competition, and he doesn’t like giving up shots,” Straka said. “But it’s one of those courses where it can always happen, so you got to be prepared for it. I felt like I gave myself a lot of chances to kind of make a push.”

Rickie Fowler had his first top 10 of the year at just the right time.

He made par on the 18th to tie for seventh, earning him a spot in the British Open. Fowler tied with Brandt Snedeker at 1-under 287, but gets the one Open exemption available based on a higher world ranking — Fowler at No. 124, Snedeker at No. 430.

“That’s one I’ve wanted on the schedule,” said Fowler, who faces a 36-hole qualifier for the U.S. Open on Monday.

Scheffler has won three times in his last four starts — the exception was Colonial, a tie for fourth the week after winning the PGA Championship — and expanded his margin at No. 1 in the world to levels not seen since Woods in his peak years.

For Scheffler, it was his fifth victory in a $20 million signature event in the last two years.

With mud on the golf ball in the first fairway, too much spin on short irons on the next few holes, Scheffler didn’t have a birdie putt until the fifth hole. He saved par seven times in the final round, including the final hole.

His last three victories have been by eight shots (Byron Nelson), five shots (PGA Championship) and four shots (Memorial).

“Scottie, he didn’t play — for him — spectacular golf,” Nicklaus said. “He played what he should do. He played good, solid, smart golf. Three 70s and a 68, that’s pretty good golf under the conditions that were out there. That’s what the best player in the world does.”

# Name R1 R2 R3 R4 Total Purse
1 Scottie Scheffler 70 70 68 70 278 $4,000,000
2 Ben Griffin 65 72 72 73 282 $2,200,000
3 Sepp Straka 74 73 66 70 283 $1,400,000
4 Nick Taylor 69 68 74 73 284 $1,000,000
5 Russell Henley 74 68 73 71 286 $800,000
Maverick McNealy 75 72 69 70 286 $800,000
7 Jordan Spieth 72 69 72 74 287 $603,200
Keegan Bradley 69 76 68 74 287 $603,200
Rickie Fowler 72 73 69 73 287 $603,200
Tom Hoge 73 69 75 70 287 $603,200
Brandt Snedeker 75 73 74 65 287 $603,200
12 Taylor Pendrith 73 72 73 70 288 $415,000
Harris English 71 73 73 71 288 $415,000
Sam Burns 76 65 75 72 288 $415,000
Patrick Cantlay 72 73 69 74 288 $415,000
16 Sungjae Im 73 72 73 71 289 $319,000
Tommy Fleetwood 72 75 72 70 289 $319,000
Akshay Bhatia 70 69 80 70 289 $319,000
Ludvig Åberg 75 71 77 66 289 $319,000
20 Collin Morikawa 67 75 77 72 290 $250,667
Ryan Fox 72 72 73 73 290 $250,667
Robert MacIntyre 71 74 73 72 290 $250,667
23 Ryan Gerard 76 69 72 74 291 $208,000
Shane Lowry 69 72 73 77 291 $208,000
25 Xander Schauffele 73 69 74 76 292 $159,000
Matt Kuchar 74 75 71 72 292 $159,000
Corey Conners 73 73 71 75 292 $159,000
Cam Young 77 72 72 71 292 $159,000
Viktor Hovland 74 73 75 70 292 $159,000
Max Greyserman 78 70 75 69 292 $159,000
31 Matt Fitzpatrick 76 73 76 68 293 $114,857
Sam Stevens 74 73 76 70 293 $114,857
S.W. Kim 70 77 74 72 293 $114,857
Tony Finau 72 73 76 72 293 $114,857
Adam Scott 79 69 73 72 293 $114,857
Justin Thomas 80 69 71 73 293 $114,857
Jacob Bridgeman 73 71 71 78 293 $114,857
38 Hideki Matsuyama 74 75 74 71 294 $94,000
39 Alex Noren 74 74 76 71 295 $82,000
Thomas Detry 74 74 74 73 295 $82,000
Mackenzie Hughes 73 71 77 74 295 $82,000
Stephan Jaeger 76 72 73 74 295 $82,000
Bud Cauley 71 74 75 75 295 $82,000
44 Eric Cole 72 72 76 76 296 $62,400
Jhonattan Vegas 74 73 73 76 296 $62,400
Michael Kim 78 71 74 73 296 $62,400
Nick Dunlap 74 74 75 73 296 $62,400
Justin Rose 78 66 80 72 296 $62,400
49 Min Woo Lee 76 71 76 75 298 $53,000
Davis Thompson 76 70 77 75 298 $53,000
51 Adam Hadwin 76 73 72 78 299 $49,500
Max Homa 68 79 75 77 299 $49,500
Andrew Novak 70 77 75 77 299 $49,500
Harry Higgs 72 75 77 75 299 $49,500
55 Denny McCarthy 72 75 77 76 300 $47,000
56 Wyndham Clark 78 71 77 75 301 $46,000
Austin Eckroat 73 73 81 78 305 $45,000
888 Byeong Hun An 74 81 155
Lucas Glover 78 77 155
Brian Harman 76 78 154
J.T. Poston 77 76 153
Aaron Rai 79 74 153
Joe Highsmith 76 77 153
Daniel Berger 81 72 153
Cam Davis 78 78 156
Christiaan Bezuidenhout 74 78 152
Chris Kirk 75 76 151
Matti Schmid 75 75 150
J.J. Spaun 76 74 150
Matthieu Pavon 75 75 150
Sahith Theegala 74 77 151
999 Brian Campbell 79 79

Leaders

First Round
Ben Griffin 65 (-7)
Collin Morikawa 67 (-5)
Max Homa 68 (-4)
Shane Lowry 69 (-3)
Keegan Bradley 69 (-3)
Nick Taylor 69 (-3)

Second Round
Nick Taylor 137 (-7)
Ben Griffin 137 (-7)
Akshay Bhatia 139 (-5)
Scottie Scheffler 140 (-4)
Sam Burns 141 (-3)
Shane Lowry 141 (-3)
Jordan Spieth 141 (-3)

Third Round
Scottie Scheffler 208 (-8)
Ben Griffin 209 (-7)
Nick Taylor 211 (-5)
Sepp Straka 213 (-3)
Keegan Bradley 213 (-3)
Jordan Spieth 213 (-3)

Notes

Missed Cut:

Matthieu Pavon (75-75-MC), J.J. Spaun (76-74-MC), Matti Schmid (75-75-MC), Chris Kirk (75-76-MC), Sahith Theegala (74-77-MC), Christiaan Bezuidenhout (74-78-MC), Aaron Rain (79-74-MC), Joe Highsmith (76-77-MC), Daniel Berger (81-72-MC), J.T. Poston (77-76-MC), Brian Harman (76-78-MC), Lucas Glover (78-77-MC), Byeong Hun An (74-81-MC), Cam Davis (78-78-MC), Brian Campbell (79-WD)

Weather:

Thursday: Mostly cloudy with a high of 72 degrees. Wind WSW 4-15 mph. Friday: Isolated rain showers. High of 65 degrees. Wind NW 6-12 mph. Saturday: Partly cloudy. High of 66 degrees. Wind NW 12-20 mph, gusting to 26 mph. Sunday: Mostly sunny. High of 68 degrees. Wind NW 5-15 mph.

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