Muirfield Village Golf Club

Jack Nicklaus designed Muirfield Village Golf Club in 1974 on a piece of Dublin, Ohio land outside Columbus that Nicklaus assembled specifically as the host venue for the Memorial Tournament — the PGA Tour event he founded and continues to host every May. The course was Nicklaus's first complete original-design project (with collaboration from Desmond Muirhead), and the name references both the Muirfield Old Course in Scotland (where Nicklaus won the 1966 British Open) and the Dublin, Ohio village location. The Memorial Tournament has been played at Muirfield Village every year since 1976, making the host relationship one of the longest continuous PGA Tour venues in the modern era.

The course plays around 7,571 yards par 72 from the championship markers, with bent fairways and a slope in the upper 140s. Nicklaus's signature throughout the routing is the large, contoured green complexes and the strategic decisions that reward the left-to-right tee ball he favored in his playing career. The fourteenth hole is a 363-yard par-4 with a creek crossing in front of the green; the fifteenth, a 503-yard par-5 with a creek that wraps the green complex, is one of the most-televised mid-round holes on the modern PGA Tour. Muirfield Village hosted the 1987 Ryder Cup (Europe won 15-13 in the first Cup played on American soil that Europe won) and the 2013 Presidents Cup (U.S. won 18.5-15.5).

Muirfield Village is private and access is members and accompanied guests only. The membership is national in composition — Nicklaus invited a national member roster rather than a regional Columbus base — and the hospitality model is built around the Memorial Tournament week as the institutional centerpiece. Caddies are available; the routing is walkable.

Central Ohio climate gives Muirfield Village a playing season of April through October, with the firmest conditions in late May and early June — the Memorial Tournament window. The course closes through brief winter cold snaps. The mature tree canopy through the routing gives it a parkland character distinct from the more open Columbus-area courses. The Memorial-week setup — fast greens, penal rough, narrow fairway corridors — is the tournament-defining condition every year.