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Round 3 of the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday continues Saturday from Muirfield Village. Cameron Smith holds a one-shot lead at 8-under heading into the weekend. Here’s everything you need to know to follow the action, including Featured Groups for PGA TOUR LIVE and newly expanded and extended coverage on ESPN+. Click here for more details. Leaderboard Full tee times HOW TO FOLLOW Television: Thursday-Friday, 2 p.m.-6 p.m. ET (Golf Channel). Saturday-Sunday, 12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. (Golf Channel), 2:30 p.m.-6 p.m. (CBS) Radio: Thursday-Friday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m. ET. Saturday-Sunday, 1 p.m.-6 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com/liveaudio) For outside of the U.S., click here for GOLFTV powered by the PGA TOUR PGA TOUR LIVE PGA TOUR Live is available exclusively on ESPN+ • Main Feed: primary tournament-coverage featuring the best action from across the course • Marquee Group: new “marquee group” showcasing every shot from each player in the group • Featured Groups: traditional PGA TOUR LIVE coverage of two concurrent featured groups • Featured Holes: a combination of par-3s and iconic or pivotal holes FEATURED GROUPS Marquee Group Rickie Fowler, Jordan Spieth Featured Groups Patrick Reed, Lanto Griffin Jason Day, Martin Laird Featured Holes: No. 4 (par 3), No. 12 (par 3), No. 15 (par 5), No. 16 (par 3) MUST READS Bryson DeChambeau road back begins with MC at Memorial Adam Hadwin makes wild hole-in-one at Memorial Tournament Rory McIlroy contending, again, at the Memorial Tournament Hideki Matsuyama disqualified for non-conforming club at Memorial Jack Nicklaus’ impact on the modern PGA TOUR Five Things to Know: Muirfield Village
2022 the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday, Round 2 Top 10 win probabilities: 1. Cameron Smith (1, -8, 18.6%) 2. Rory McIlroy (T9, -5, 8.9%) 3. Billy Horschel (T4, -6, 7.9%) 4. Kyounghoon Lee (T2, -7, 7.7%) 5. Cameron Young (T4, -6, 7.7%) 6. Denny McCarthy (T2, -7, 5.9%) 7. Davis Riley (T4, -6, 4.1%) 8. Sungjae Im (T13, -4, 3.8%) 9. Jhonattan Vegas (T4, -6, 3.8%) 10. Aaron Wise (T9, -5, 3.7%) Top Strokes-Gained Performers from Round 2: Putting: J.T. Poston +3.7 Around the Green: Beau Hossler +4.1 Approach the Green: Aaron Wise +3.3 Off-the-tee: Aaron Rai +1.6 Total: Francesco Molinari +5.2 NOTE: These reports are based off of the live predictive model run by @DataGolf. The model provides live “Make Cut”, “Top 20”, “Top 5”, and “Win” probabilities every 5 minutes from the opening tee shot to the final putt of every PGA TOUR event. Briefly, the model takes account of the current form of each golfer as well as the difficulty of their remaining holes, and probabilities are calculated from 20K simulations. To follow live finish probabilities throughout the remainder of the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday, or to see how each golfer’s probabilities have evolved from the start of the event to the current time, click here for the model’s home page.
DUBLIN, Ohio — Cameron Smith believes he is playing the best golf of his life, and it shows. He is in the lead at the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday, a tournament where the Australian doesn’t have a great history. Smith elicited one of the loudest cheers of a glorious afternoon Friday at Muirfield Village — another anomaly for this weather-plagued tournament — when he holed out with a downhill chip from beyond the green on the par-3 12th that carried him to a 3-under 69. He kept his one-shot lead over Denny McCarthy and K.H. Lee the rest of the day by doing what Smith does best. He holed a 15-foot putt for par on the next hole and twice made 6-foot par putts for bunker saves down the stretch. “I think I’m just happy with the way I stuck in there,” Smith said. “Really happy with where my short game’s at. I feel like I’m rolling the ball really good. Just need to sort out that longer stuff.” As for his history at the Memorial? In six previous appearance, Smith only made the cut twice and both times and finished outside the top 60. His best round was a 71. But this is a new Smith, the winner of THE PLAYERS Championship and the Sentry Tournament of Champions. So his rounds of 67-69 to reach 8-under 136 and be in the lead going into the weekend is hardly a surprise, even at Muirfield Village. “I think my game’s in a good spot. There’s no reason why I shouldn’t be,” he said. “I’m playing some of the best golf of my life, and I feel I’m getting more consistent with the longer stuff. So just looking forward to everything coming up.” Billy Horschel putted for birdie on every hole and made four of them for a 68 that left him in the group two shots behind with Torrey Pines winner Luke List, PGA TOUR rookies Cameron Young and Davis Riley, and Jhonattan Vegas. Rory McIlroy had a 69 and was three shots behind. Defending champion Patrick Cantlay closed with two big par putts for a 69 and was at 3-under 141. The cut was at 2-over 146. Among those missing out on the weekend were Bryson DeChambeau and Harris English, both returning from injuries. DeChambeau (hand surgery) had not played since the Masters. English (hip surgery) had not played since the Sony Open in January. McCarthy’s name was mentioned prominently even before the Memorial began, and then he lived up to the praise. He took only 25 putts Friday — he only had 24 putts the day before — for a 3-under 69 that put him one shot behind. For those who don’t pore over the litany of statistics available on the PGA TOUR, it was a little surprising when McIlroy was asked earlier in the week whom he considered the better putters in today’s game. He mentioned Jordan Spieth. Everyone knows him. He was impressed with Sam Burns, a three-time winner over the last eight months. And he mentioned McCarthy. Told of McIlroy’s comments earlier in the week, McCarthy smiled and said, “I would like to drive it like Rory.” “Everyone has the best part of their game. Obviously, putting is part of mine,” said McCarthy, who is No. 5 in the key putting statistic for the season. “Driving the ball is the best part of his game. I’m no slouch around the course, like putting is not the only thing I do well. Everyone brings up my putter; yes, I’m a good putter. But I need to do good things to get to those putts.” McIlroy, meanwhile, has been picking up a little momentum since his closing 64 at the Masters for a runner-up finish. He finished four shots behind at the Wells Fargo Championship and three shots out of a playoff at the PGA Championship. McIlroy surged into the mix at the Memorial with a fairway metal that was high and true and into a freshening breeze to 6 feet for eagle on the par-5 fifth toward the end of his round. His momentum was slowed by a bogey from the bunker on the par-3 eighth, but his 69 left him in reasonable shape going into the weekend. Jon Rahm overcame a shank on the second hole — he made birdie on the next one — to scratch out a 70 without his best iron game. He was at 2-under 142, six shots behind. Rahm won in 2020. He was six shots ahead after three rounds last year until his positive COVID-19 test knocked him out of the final round.
DUBLIN, Ohio – Bryson DeChambeau knew he was in for a long climb back. He hadn’t played competitively since shooting a second-round 80 to miss the cut at the Masters, after which he underwent surgery on a fractured hamate bone in his left hand about 90 minutes southwest of Columbus on April 14. Not until this week, at the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday at Muirfield Village, where he won in 2018, could he even play without pain. The fact that he shot 76-77 to miss the cut? He was sort of expecting it. “I hit it down the fairway,” he said of his first shot in competition in nearly two months. “I was, like, all right, cool. Still have my game somewhat. As the day went on, there were some mis-hits and shots that just didn’t feel right. With my golf swing, hand felt great. No issues with that. “But it just didn’t feel like the old me of 2018 like I used to,” he added, “and so there’s a lot of work I have to do to get back to top form and climb that mountain again. I’m excited to do so.” Confined to just five starts coming into this week DeChambeau had missed three cuts and failed to get out of his group at the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play. Part of the problem was his hand, which he hurt when he fell while playing table tennis in February. He was also fighting a torn labrum in his left hip, an injury he sustained when he fell on concrete while speed training a few years back. Hand surgery at the renowned Kettering Medical Center in Ohio, plus time off, has helped. Although DeChambeau said the bone in his hand has not fully healed and won’t for another two months, and he feels pain when it jars the club into the ground in just the wrong way, he said the muscles around it are getting stronger. What’s more, he added, he’s been told he can’t re-break it. He hopes to be all-systems go by the U.S. Open in Boston in two weeks. “I’m comfortable going after it again,” he said, “whereas before it was tough because it’s like, man, I was grinding so hard and I wasn’t figuring stuff out. It can just beat you down. But taking a little bit of time off, unscheduled, it was actually good for my mental health and being able to look back and appreciate the grind and the journey I’ve always enjoyed going through.” Of his opening round here, he said, “First 18 holes that I have really completed without any pain and any thought of the hand in seven months. It’s a long process for me, but I’m excited to see where this next part of my life takes me. I’m pretty stoked. “I know I’ll have a lot of work ahead of me,” he added, “but I’m not afraid of it.” Other notables to miss the cut: Collin Morikawa – Had six top-10s in his first eight starts this season, but five-time PGA TOUR winner has fallen back since then and shot 71-77 with a new putter at Muirfield Village. Matt Fitzpatrick – Came into the Memorial on a hot streak after a T5 at the PGA Championship and T2 at the Wells Fargo Championship, but 74-73 at Muirfield was one shot too many. Harris English – Making his first PGA TOUR start since right hip surgery to repair a torn labrum in February, was understandably rusty as he shot 77-77. William McGirt – Also battling a hip injury and playing on a medical extension, the 2016 Memorial champion got off to a solid start with a 69 but fell back with a second-round 78.
