The Memorial Tournament 2025 Predictions: Count on Cantlay

• Jack Nicklaus’ tournament is a Signature Event featuring just 72 players

• It’s been a regular stop since 1976 and this is the 50th edition

• Defending champion Scottie Scheffler is a hot favorite   

Memorial Tournament 2025 Odds

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The Memorial Tournament 2025 Predictions

• Patrick Cantlay each-way (1/4 odds, 5 Places) +2200 with bet365

• Si Woo Kim to beat Daniel Berger in 72-hole match at +105 with bet365

• Bud Cauley for Top 10 at +600 with BetMGM

The Memorial Tournament 2025 Intro

A relatively sluggish first 36 holes cost Scottie Scheffler victory in last week’s Charles Schwab Challenge although it’s come to something where we now think of fourth place as failure.

Scheffler is back for more in this week’s Memorial Tournament and he just happens to be the defending champion.

This event, of course, celebrates the career of Jack Nicklaus.

The Golden Bear designed this tough par 72 in the 1970s and the first edition of The Memorial Tournament was played in 1976.

Roger Maltbie, now a familiar broadcast voice, was the first to get his name on the trophy but Nicklaus hoisted the silverware a year later.

Muirfield Village was named after Jack’s favorite Open Championship course.

That win in the 1966 Open at Muirfield was the first of Nicklaus’ three Claret Jugs.

He’s won this event twice, putting him three behind the tournament’s most successful player.

That would be Tiger Woods, who claimed his fifth Memorial crown in 2012.

The course has been tweaked and tinkered with constantly and the current version plays extremely tough as shown by single digits under par winning in both 2023 and 2024.

It’s produced some shock champions down the years but these days the big names tend to carve it up.

The two champions before those listed below were Bryson DeChambeau (2018) and Patrick Cantlay (2019).  

Last 5 Winners of The Memorial Tournament

Course Notes

• The course was designed by Jack Nicklaus and opened in 1974

• It plays as a par 72 that measures 7,569 yards from the tips 

• The bentgrass greens are small at an average of 5,000 square feet 

• Strokes Gained: Tee To Green has been the best pointer

• The course record of 61 was shot by John Huston in 1996 

• Tom Lehman (1994) holds the 72-hole record of 268

Favorites to Win The Memorial Tournament 2025

Scottie Scheffler (+280) at bet365

Scheffler couldn’t get it done last week at +250 and he’s only a fraction bigger to win this week. But on a course that rewards strong iron play, it’s surely made for him. The records back the theory up. The Texan was third in both 2021 and 2023 (he didn’t play in 2022) and then lifted the trophy last year. Before his fourth place at Colonial last week, he’d won both the PGA Championship and CJ CUP Byron Nelson. A third victory in four starts is very much in his wheelhouse. 

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Xander Schauffele (+1600) at bet365

Schauffele is still winless in 2025, a season where he missed two months between January and March with a rib problem. He’s been racking up the top 20s and eighth at The Masters suggested it was a matter of time before we saw the 2024 version that won two Majors but 28th in defense of his PGA Championship was underwhelming. He’s super-consistent at Muirfield Village with seven straight top 20s but last year’s eighth place is his only top 10.

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Collin Morikawa (+1600) at bet365

As one of the very best iron players in the modern era, Morikawa was always going to be a good fit here. He won on his course debut when Muirfield Village staged the Workday Charity Open in 2020 while he’s been Memorial runner-up in both 2021 and 2024. He’s also twice finished second in 2025 (January’s Sentry and March’s Arnold Palmer) but he’s not made the top 10 in five starts and was 50th in the PGA at Quail Hollow.

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Cantlay Can Bank Treble  

Patrick Cantlay may be a frustrating figure but there’s a fair degree of predictability about when and where he plays well.

At the Truist Championship in Pennsylvania - an area where he’s often thrived - Cantlay finished fourth.

That was his best finish of the season after fifths at both The American Express and the Genesis Invitational.

But Cantlay’s record in the Majors is underwhelming - five top 10s in 33 starts - so it was hardly a surprise to see him miss the cut in the PGA at Quail Hollow.

Conversely, his Muirfield Village course record suggests he bounces back here.

Cantlay has two wins, a third, a fourth and a seventh in nine appearances at Jack’s place.

It’s a venue he loves and +2200 (1/4, 5 Places) at bet365 looks a very playable price on the Ryder Cup star.

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Kim to Beat Berger

For this week’s 72-hole match bet, I’m drawn towards Si Woo Kim.

Kim is the ‘dog in his duel with Daniel Berger but the Korean looks a worthy investment at +105 with bet365.

Berger does have one good finish at Memorial, a fifth in 2022, but his course form in three other starts reads MC-67-MC.

Kim, meanwhile, has an ultra-consistent record at Muirfield Village.

He’s connected five top 20s since 2020 and that includes fourth and ninth.

It’s also fair to say that Kim’s current form is more reliable.

In his last five individual events, the 29-year-old has two top 10s, a pair of top 20s and a 28th at Colonial last week.

Berger missed the Colonial cut and had to settle for 33rd in the PGA at Quail Hollow.

Kim gets the nod at +100 via bet365.

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Cauley to Land Top 10

Harry Hall landed last week’s Top 10 bet at a healthy +550 after his tied sixth at Colonial.

This week I’ll invest in Bud Cauley in the same market at +600.

Cauley has had an excellent season so far and last week’s third place at the Charles Schwab Challenge was his fourth top six in seven starts. 

Ninth at Muirfield Village on his penultimate appearance there, Cauley for a top 10 at +600 with BetMGM is good business.

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How to Watch The Memorial Tournament 2025

• Tournament: The Memorial Tournament

• Location: Muirfield Village, Dublin, OH

• Date: Thursday, May 29 - Sunday, June 1

• How to Watch: Thursday-Friday 2-6 p.m. ET (Golf Channel). Saturday-Sunday 12.30-2.30 p.m. (Golf Channel), 2.30-6 p.m. (CBS). And all four days on Sky Sports.