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A full schedule of golf events is planned for this weekend. Below is the television coverage (all times are ET).
Saturday, May 319am – 12pm – European Tour – Celtic Manor Wales Open in Newport Wales – Golf Channel1230pm – 230pm – PGA – Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio – Golf Channel230pm – 5pm – Nationwide Tour – Bank of America Open in Glenville, IL – Golf Channel4pm – 6pm – LPGA – Ginn Tribute in Charleston, SC – NBC630pm – 9pm – Champions Tour – Principal Charity Classic in West Des Moines, IA – Golf Channel
Sunday, June 19am …read more

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The top eight players (sans Tiger Woods and Adam Scott) and the rest of the PGA entourage are in central Ohio this week for the Memorial Tournament. The tournament, played at Jack Nicklaus-designed Muirfield Country Club, is closely associated with Nicklaus. Nicklaus grew up in the Columbus suburb of Upper Arlington and graduated from Ohio State University. Nicklaus established the tournament in 1976 and designed it to benefit a number of central Ohio charities, primarily the Columbus Children’s Hospital.
Below are a few facts about the Memorial Tournament:

The tournament was originally played over Memorial Day weekend (hence the name), but Ohio’s …read more

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Tiger Woods will be sitting out the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Country Club in Dublin, Ohio this week. He is still recovering from his arthroscopic knee surgery on April 15. His next likely appearance will be in the US Open at Torrey Pines, which starts on June 9.
Said Muirfield tournament director, Dan Sullivan, “We were excited to have Tiger play this year, but understand he still has some recuperating to do.”
(photo © newscom)

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Next weekend, beginning on Memorial Day, the PGA Tour heads to my neck of the woods–to Muirfield Village Golf Course in Dublin, Ohio, just outside of Columbus. The Jack Nicklaus-designed course (one of his first) is ranked by “Golf Digest” magazine as the best course in Ohio and among the top 25 in the US. I grew up in Columbus and have fond memories of volunteering for the Memorial Tournament as a teenager. Here’s a fly-over of the course:

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