Golf legend Jack Nicklaus isn't too happy that the PGA Tour asked him to move his annual Memorial Tournament one week before the U.S. Open.
Jack Nicklaus, the 18-time major winner and 73-time PGA Tour victor, looks forward to his Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, each year. The PGA Tour's request to reschedule the tournament for a week later this year, right before the U.S. Open, didn't sit well with Nicklaus. 'We would prefer the other week,' Nicklaus told reporters Tuesday, via Sports Illustrated. 'However, we are here this week because the tour asked us to help them out.
But we said we would review it after this tournament, and we’ll figure out how we’re going to settle the schedule after that. And I said that discussion is under way.' The reason the tour asked Nicklaus and the tournament to move from its usual Memorial Day weekend was to help its signature event series. TRANGENDER GOLFER'S ATTEMPT TO QUALIFY FOR US WOMEN'S OPEN SPARKS OUTAGE ON SOCIAL MEDIA One of the main reasons Nicklaus liked the tournament where it was — two weeks before the U.
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