PGA Tour Brunch – The Memorial Notebook
DUBLIN (Ohio) – After matching 1-under( 71s), the 2019 Memorial Tournament champion, Patrick Cantlay, defeated Collin Morikawa in sudden death. Cantlay takes the lead in the FedExCup points standings. With the win, Cantlay became the seventh multiple winner of the Memorial Tournament
The sudden death playoff was the seventh playoff of the PGA Tour season and first since the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
Morikawa’s playoff loss marked his sixth Top-10 finish of the season and third in his last five starts.
Scottie Scheffler narrowly missed first PGA Tour title and second professional victory in Columbus.
A week after missing the cut at the Charles Schwab Challenge, Patrick Reed(5th/-8) closed with a 3-under 69 to mark his sixth Top-10 finish of the season and first since a T-6 at the Wells Fargo Championship
The Memorial Tournament is one of three tournaments on the PGA TOUR schedule with “elevated status” (others: The Genesis Invitational, Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard). The three elevated events offer a larger purse ($9.3 million), a three-year PGA TOUR exemption and, new in 2021, 550 FedExCup points to the winner.
With his win at this season’s Genesis Invitational, T-10 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and T-6 at this week’s Memorial Tournament, Max Homa became the first player to earn Top-10 finishes in all three events since Bill Haas in 2013.
Final Leaderboard at The Memorial
*Patrick Cantlay 69-67-68-71—275 (-13)
Collin Morikawa 66-72-66-71—275 (-13)
Scottie Scheffler 67-71-69-70—277 (-11)
Branden Grace 68-72-67-71—278 (-10)
Patrick Reed 71-71-69-69—280 (-8)
*defeated Collin Morikawa with a par on the first hole of sudden death (par-4 18th)