Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, will be a busy place the next two weeks.
The PGA Tour is staging back-to-back tournaments at the same venue for the first time in 44 years and the golf course will play different for each event.
First up, it’s the Workday Charity Open, a tournament added on the fly to the PGA Tour schedule.
It’s a replacement event for the John Deere Classic in Illinois, which was canceled due to COVID restrictions. The Workday is the first of consecutive weeks of play at Muirfield Village – the Dublin Double, if you will.
After Workday, the club will host the Memorial, Jack Nicklaus’ annual bash that attracts scores of the game’s best players. Tiger Woods is expected by many in golf’s circles to resume play in the Memorial, which he has won a record five times.
But the golf course will be intriguing to watch, too.
Due to consecutive weeks of play, measures will be taken to limit wear and tear on the course.
According to a memo sent to players, Workday will feature a variety of tee boxes that are expected to make the course shorter while protecting tee areas normally used for the Memorial.
Rough will be 3½ inches tall and the green surfaces will run about 11 on the Stimpmeter.
The Memorial will have higher rough and green speeds are planned to increase to 13-13½ on the Stimpmeter.
The Workday will be played July 9-12 and the Memorial will follow July 16-19. The Memorial was originally scheduled to host fans but that plan has been scrapped, so neither event will have spectators on site.
