The Memorial Tournament begins Thursday at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin with a field of 120 highlighted by all four reigning major winners and the world's top-ranked golfer, Adam Scott.
Scott will play Thursday and Friday in the tournament's featured group alongside Rory McIlroy, who last week won the BMW PGA Championship on the European PGA Tour, and Jason Day, an Australian who lives in the Columbus area and has a home-track advantage as a member at Muirfield.
Scott ascended to No. 1 in the World Golf Rankings last week and then won the Colonial in a playoff over Jason Dufner. The Scott-Day-McIlroy group will tee off at 1:16 p.m. Thursday.
Dufner, the 2013 PGA Champion who grew up in Northeast Ohio, will play Thursday morning at 8:26 with Matt Every and Ryan Moore.
Another featured group of Phil Mickelson, 20-year-old Jordan Spieth and Bill Haas tees off at 1:05 p.m. Thursday.
Last year's winner, Matt Kuchar, will play off the No. 10 tee at 8:26 a.m. Thursday along with two other former Memorial winners, Justin Rose and Steve Stricker.
Jack Nicklaus is the host and founder of the Memorial, which has been played at Muirfield since 1976.
