The Muirfield Village Golf Club is known as the house that Jack built and is Jack Nicklaus signature course. It is also the site of this week PGA Tour stop
Formerly ranked Number One in the World on the World Amateur Golf Ranking, Morikawa has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the professional ranks since making his professional debut in 2019, winning two Major Championships on debut and becoming the first American winner of the Race to Dubai.
His first Major success came at the 2020 US PGA Championship, becoming the third-youngest winner of the event and setting a Championship scoring record for the final 36 holes with just 129 strokes.
Became the first player in history to win on two Major Championship debuts as he triumphed at Royal St George’s at The 149th Open.
Made 22 successive cuts on the PGA TOUR after his debut in 2019, a feat only bettered by Tiger Woods at 25.
Won twice on the PGA TOUR in the space of a year, first at the 2019 Barracuda Championship and then the 2020 Workday Charity Open almost a year later.
Took up European Tour membership at the 2020 WGC-Mexico Championship and later that season became the third-youngest win
Collin Morikawa, and defending champion
Patrick Reed headline the latest commitments to what will be an elite field for the season’s first World Golf Championships event,
Feb. 25-28.
Dustin Johnson
An eight-time World Golf Championships winner, Johnson has won this event three times on two different venues (2015/Trump National Doral, 2017, 2019/Club de Golf Chapultepec). The defending FedExCup champion has won four of his last eight starts worldwide including the 2020 Masters Tournament.
Jon Rahm
In search of his first career World Golf Championships title, Rahm will arrive at The Concession Golf Club with four-top 5 finishes in 13 career starts in the WGCs. A five-time PGA TOUR winner, Rahm last hoisted a trophy at the BMW Championship in the second leg of the FedExCup Playoffs. Through seven starts of the 2020-21 season, Rahm has collected four top-10 finishes.