Muirfield Village Golf Club

Jack Nicklaus spent most of his early life around Columbus, and he wanted a tournament course near home. He designed it, founded the club, and opened it in May 1974 in Dublin, Ohio, a suburb north of the city, inside a residential village of about 2,400 homes. He named it after Muirfield in Scotland, where he won the first of his three Open titles in 1966. The Memorial Tournament has been played here every spring since 1976. The club has also held the 1987 Ryder Cup, the 1992 U.S. Amateur, the 1998 Solheim Cup, the 2013 Presidents Cup and the 2020 Workday Charity Open.

After the 2020 Memorial the club closed and rebuilt the course. Every green complex was redone, bunkers were enlarged and deepened, and some greens were moved. At the fifth and the fifteenth the work went further: the fifth now plays as a par four during the tournament, and the fifteenth gained about thirty yards, with the creek down its left brought back into play. Two holes were left alone, the twelfth and the fourteenth. From the Memorial tees the card is 7,569 yards, par 72, rated 77.3 with a slope of 155 — ordinary length for a modern tour course, and a slope that is not. Every spring the tournament honours a figure from the game's past, and a plaque for each honouree goes up near the clubhouse.