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 DUBLIN, Ohio – Tournament officials announced today that three-time Memorial winner and World No. 1 Tiger Woods will compete in the 34th Memorial Tournament scheduled for June 1-7 at Muirfield Village Golf Club.
Woods will be making his tenth appearance at the Memorial and his first since missing the 2008 Tournament due to a knee injury. He has recorded six top-10 finishes at Muirfield Village Golf Club and has never missed the cut. Woods and 2008 winner Kenny Perry are the only three-time winners of the Memorial, and Woods holds the only sub-70 scoring average in Tournament history at 69.59. He also holds the record for low back-to-back rounds with 63-65 during Rounds 2 and 3 in 2000, and he ranks No. 2 on the Memorial’s career money list with more than $2.7 million in earnings.
On the strength of five top-10 finishes in six events in 2009, including a victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard, Woods is not only the No. 1 ranked player in the world, but also ranks No.1 on the Tour in scoring average at 69.13 and No. 9 on the PGA Tour money list with $2,166,813. Woods has recorded 66 PGA Tour victories, including 14 professional major championships, and he is the reigning U.S. Open champion. Woods has recorded at least one victory in each of his 13 seasons as a professional, four shy of the record shared by Memorial Tournament founder and host Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer.
With Woods’s commitment in place, the Memorial will boast a field that includes seven out of the top-10 in the world and eight out of the top-10 on the PGA Tour money list. In addition, Woods along with Vijay Singh, Kenny Perry, Anthony Kim, Camilo Villegas, Padraig Harrington, Jim Furyk and Jack Nicklaus will participate in the Memorial Skins Game scheduled
for Wednesday, June 3 at 1p.m.
“We are pleased to learn of Tiger’s return to the Memorial,” said executive director Dan Sullivan. “Over the years Tiger has played well here, and, of course, central Ohio fans very much enjoy seeing him compete. Tiger is one of the biggest stars in all of sport and he brings significant attention to any event he enters. All involved with the Memorial look forward to hosting Tiger as one of the 120 professionals in this year’s field.”
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