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Memorial Tournament 2025 leaderboard: Live scores, updates from Round 3
If you buy something through a link in this article, we may earn commission. Pricing and availability subject to change. The field has been cut and two players sit tied atop the leaderboard as the Memorial Tournament opens its third day of competition. Ben Griffin finished the second day right where he finished the first: 7 shots under par and in first place. After the second round, however, he's got company, as Nick Taylor's strong second day pulled him even atop the leaderboard with Griffin. Taylor is vying to become the first-ever Canadian golfer to win the tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club. Advertisement Other familiar names are lurking near the top. You can catch up on who made the cut and who didn't by clicking here. Follow along with all the action at our Dispatch live blog. Memorial Tournament tee times today 10:00 a.m.: Hideki Matsuyama 10:05 a.m.: Cameron Young, Wyndham Clark 10:15 a.m.: Matt Kuchar, Adam Hadwin 10:25 a.m.: Matt Fitzpatrick, Justin Thomas 10:36 a.m.: Max Greyserman, Michael Kim 10:47 a.m.: Alex Noren, Stephan Jaeger 10:58 a.m.: Adam Scott, Brandt Snedeker 11:09 a.m.: Nick Dunlap, Thomas Detry 11:20 a.m.: Jhonattan Vegas, Harry Higgs 11:31 a.m.: Denny McCarthy, Viktor Hovland 11:42 a.m.: Si Woo Kim, Sepp Straka 11:58 a.m.: Max Homa, Tommy Fleetwood 12:09 p.m.: Min Woo Lee, Sam Stevens 12:20 p.m.: Andrew Novak, Maverick McNealy 12:31 p.m.: Austin Eckroat, Ludvig Åberg 12:42 p.m.: Davis Thompson, Corey Conners 12:53 p.m.: Tony Finau, Bud Cauley 1:04 p.m.: Keegan Bradley, Rickie Fowler 1:15 p.m.: Robert MacIntyre, Patrick Cantlay 1:26 p.m.: Sungjae Im, Taylor Pendrith 1:37 p.m.: Eric Cole, Ryan Gerard 1:48 p.m.: Harris English, Justin Rose 2:04 p.m.: Mackenzie Hughes, Jacob Bridgeman 2:15 p.m.: Collin Morikawa, Ryan Fox 2:26 p.m.: Russell Henley, Xander Schauffele 2:37 p.m.: Jordan Spieth, Tom Hoge 2:48 p.m.: Sam Burns, Shane Lowry 2:59 p.m.: Akshay Bhatia, Scottie Scheffler 3:10 p.m.: Nick Taylor, Ben Griffin What time do the gates open for the Memorial Tournament today? Patrons can enter for the third round of the 2025 Memorial Tournament starting at 9 a.m. What TV channel is the Memorial golf tournament on? How to watch Third-round coverage of the 2025 Memorial Tournament airs on the Golf Channel and CBS. Live Third Round coverage: Golf Channel, 2-5:30 p.m. Live Third Round coverage: CBS, 5:30-7 p.m. Third Round replay: Golf Channel, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., 3-7 a.m. Watch the Memorial Tournament with PGA TOUR Live on ESPN+ Ben Griffin sinks his putt on the 18th hole in the first round of the PGA's Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club on Thursday, May 29, 2025 in Dublin, Ohio. Memorial Tournament favorites Tournament odds from BetMGM as of May 30: Advertisement Scottie Scheffler: +175 Ben Griffin: +400 Nick Taylor: +600 Akshay Bhatia: +1100 Collin Morikawa: +1400 2025 Memorial Tournament prize money: How much is the tournament purse? Golfers will be vying for a share of a $20 million purse when the 2025 Memorial Tournament begins May 26. The champion's share will remain $4 million, which is how much defending champion Scottie Scheffler took home last year. Here's a look at the payout for the top five finishers in the 2024 tournament: Position/ Player /Score/ Earnings 1 Scottie Scheffler -8 $4 million 2 Collin Morikawa -7 $2.2 million 3 Adam Hadwin -4 $1.4 million 4 Christiaan Bezuidenhout -3 $1 million T5 Matt Fitzpatrick -2 $766,667 T5 Ludvig Aberg -2 $766,667 T5 Sepp Straka -2 $766,667 Additionally, the winner earns 700 FedExCup points. — Adam Jardy Watch the Memorial Tournament with PGA TOUR Live on ESPN+ Who has the most Memorial Tournament wins? Tiger Woods has the most wins at the Memorial with five (1999-2001, 2009, 2012). Kenny Perry is behind Woods with three (1991, 2003, 2008). If Scottie Scheffler successfully defends his title at Murifield, he will be the first back-to-back winner since Woods. Tiger Woods last won the Memorial Tournament in 2012. 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The wife of Jack Nicklaus is the first non-golfer among 84 prior recipients. Advertisement 'The Memorial Tournament has held such a special place in our family's life,' she said last June when the honor was announced. 'It's been wonderful to walk side-by-side with Jack and to watch his dream become our reality over the years. Looking back at the list of those who have been honored since 1976, I can't express how humbled I am to join this elite group that I have looked up to and respected for so long.' Jack and Barbara Nicklaus talk following the Legends Luncheon presented by Nationwide at the Ohio Union on April 15, 2025. Barbara Nicklaus is the honoree for this year's Memorial Tournament. Born Barbara Jean Bash, she graduated from North High in 1957 and studied nursing at OSU. She met Jack during their first week on Ohio State's campus as freshmen and were married July 23, 1960. Five years later, the couple moved to North Palm Beach, Florida, where they raised five children: Jack II, Steve, Nan, Gary and other honors, Barbara has received the 2015 Bob Jones Award, given by the United States Golf Association, and the 2019 PGA of America Distinguished Service Award. — Rob Oller This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Memorial Tournament leaderboard: Tee times, live updates from Round 3
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PGA Tour player Bud Cauley finds triumph amid tragedy in return to Memorial Tournament
PGA Tour player Bud Cauley finds triumph amid tragedy in return to Memorial Tournament DUBLIN, Ohio – Experiencing a promising career almost end in a car accident is not what most people would say was the best thing ever to happen to them, but even triple bogeys are blessings if they lead to better results down the road. Seven years ago, on June 1, 2018, Bud Cauley did not triple-bogey as much as get triple-bogeyed. His life bounced out of bounds less than a mile from Muirfield Village Golf Club and within hours of the completion of the second round of the Memorial Tournament. Cauley, then a 28-year-old member of the PGA Tour, had missed the cut at the Memorial earlier in the day when, just after 11 p.m., he climbed into the back seat of a 2014 BMW driven by Dublin surgeon David Crawford. Two other passengers, Tommy Nichols and former Blue Jackets defenseman James Wisniewski, joined Cauley and Crawford for the ride. Within seconds of accelerating, Crawford lost control of the vehicle while driving north on the 5000 block of Muirfield Court, which is only a couple of long par-5s from the golf course. The car went off the right side of the road and hit a culvert before going airborne into a tree, then hit several smaller trees, crossed a driveway and landed in a ditch. All three passengers suffered serious injuries. Cauley sustained a collapsed lung, five broken ribs and a fractured lower left leg. Wisniewski also broke several ribs. Crawford pleaded guilty to OVI and three counts of vehicular assault, received 2½ years of probation and had his license suspended for four years. It wasn't pretty, but the end result was beautiful. 'It's kind of funny, honestly,' said Cauley, who is tied for 11th at the Memorial following a four-year absence caused by complications from his injuries. "I met my wife sorta because I was in that car accident. I was home in Florida recovering from the surgery and that's when we met. 'The worst thing that's ever happened to me led to me meeting my wife, then getting married and we have two kids now. The worst things that happened to me led to the best things that happened to me. I wouldn't change it if I could.' If everything happens for a reason, Cauley's reason is pretty special. From bachelor to horrific accident to surgery to engagement to marriage to fatherhood. Watch the Memorial Tournament with PGA TOUR Live on ESPN+ Long, hard road to healing lasted three years for Bud Cauley Not that the journey has been easy. Cauley recovered relatively quickly from his original injuries, or so he thought, returning to Dublin to tie for ninth at the 2019 Memorial. He played again in 2020, finishing tied for 44th. Then it began. 'I just made one swing and it started to hurt,' he said, recalling the moment in 2020 when he felt pain near his ribs. Something wrong was happening with the four metal plates over his ribs. Complications from surgery ensued, and two surgeries later his career came to a screeching halt. 'We started the process of trying to figure out what was wrong,' he said. 'I tried everything, any treatment I could do. My ribs were fine. It was just the muscles around it. And that took me three years.' Three years of never swinging a club. Instead, 36 months of getting steroid injections, platelet-rich plasma therapy and amniotic fluid injections. Progress was slow, to the point Cauley wondered if he might need to begin looking for a new career. 'Three years is a long time,' he said. 'Your optimism starts to fade a little bit. My wife (Kristi) came through. I would get disappointed and think, 'I can't do this anymore. I can't get stuck with another needle.' And after a couple weeks of that she would give me the encouragement to try again.' Finally, Cauley visited the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, where doctors used a needle filled with saline solution, a procedure called hydrodissection, to separate layers of muscle scar tissue near his ribs. 'That allowed the muscle to work better, and that's what allowed me to start swinging a golf club again,' he said. During the long three years, tour player Justin Thomas kept a close eye on Cauley's progress. Both played college golf at Alabama, and Thomas was best man in Cauley's wedding. 'A terrible, terrible night and week,' Justin Thomas recalls 'He's one of my best friends in the world and it was a terrible, terrible night and week,' Thomas said of the accident, which included a fateful twist. Thomas, who was staying at Wisniewski's home during the Memorial, chose not to join the group, opting to rest up for the final two rounds of the Memorial. Thomas was Cauley's biggest cheerleader on tour when his friend began his golf comeback in January 2024. Cauley had 26 starts to compile enough FedEx points to retain his tour card, and got it done with five events to spare when he tied for sixth at the 2025 Players Championship, allowing him entry into the remaining tournaments this season. 'He's so good and so talented,' Thomas said. 'He's got one of those games that can just play out here for so long and can win out here, and he's showing that this year.' The accident feels like forever ago to Cauley, but that doesn't mean it is lost to time. 'It was the scariest moment of my life, so of course when I come back here I think about it,' he said. But negative thoughts always quickly change from terrible to terrific. 'It makes you think,' he said. 'Life honestly couldn't be any better right now. Obviously, what happened was awful, and you just have to move on. What happened changed my perspective, just being grateful to be able to play golf, and realizing how lucky you are when you find something you really enjoy doing and have the opportunity to do that every day. That's not something everyone gets to do.' But it goes deeper than that for the 35-year-old. 'My life changed while I was hurt,' he said. 'When I got in the car accident I was single, then getting married and having our first son gave me a nice perspective change, that golf is not the most important thing in my life anymore. I have a family now.' From worst to best. Hard to top that comeback story. Sports columnist Rob Oller can be reached at roller@ and on at@rollerCD. Read his columns from the Buckeyes' national championship season in "Scarlet Reign," a hardcover coffee-table collector's book from The Dispatch. Details at
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The GolfForever swing trainer, a Scottie Scheffler favorite, is a perfect Father's Day gift
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