The Memorial at Fifty: Scheffler Chasing a Three-Peat Nobody Has Managed Since Stricker

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Jack Nicklaus’s tournament turns fifty this week, and it is doing so with a leaderboard threat that would have pleased the host in his own playing days. Scottie Scheffler arrives at Muirfield Village as the two-time defending champion, and he is trying to do something that has not been done on the PGA Tour in fifteen years. Win the Memorial again and he becomes the first player since Steve Stricker took three straight John Deere Classics from 2009 to 2011 to win the same event in three consecutive seasons. The last man to manage it at this particular event was Tiger Woods, who went back-to-back at the turn of the century and remains, with Scheffler, one of only two repeat winners in the tournament’s history.

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The Memorial at Fifty: Scheffler Chasing a Three-Peat Nobody Has Managed Since Stricker