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Aaron Wise won on the PGA Tour in Dallas and then Justin Rose in Fort Worth on Sunday. You noticing a bit of a name trend there?

Now that the brackets for the 2018 men's NCAA tournament have been released, it's time to start legitimately asking the question of who has the best odds of winning the national championship. That is the last time that consecutive PGA Tour events were played on the same course. In a year filled with history, most of it bad, the PGA Tour will make some this week with the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club just outside of Columbus, Ohio. The 2018 Memorial, which begins Thursday at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Ohio, boasts a loaded field worthy of the tournament started by Jack Nicklaus in 1976. The Memorial field features eight. Not only did he win the Memorial Tournament in 2019, but playing this exact course last weekend, Cantlay shot a final-round 65 to finish tied for 7th.

Rose shot a final-round 64 at Colonial on Sunday to finish at 20 under and beat out Brooks Koepka by three for Rose's first career win at the Fort Worth Invitational. He could have tied the 2010 tournament record of 259 but bogeyed the 72^nd hole. It was the ninth career PGA Tour victory for Rose and second this year - he also took the World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions in Shanghai back at the start of the season (Koepka was runner-up in that too). He is the fifth player with multiple wins this season.

What's somewhat ironic about Sunday's victory was that Rose didn't even want to play the Fort Worth Invitational - he wanted to play the flagship event on the European Tour, the BMW PGA Championship -- but essentially had to per PGA Tour rules in order to keep his card. Perhaps the most interesting golfer at Colonial, though, was Kevin Na. He blistered the course with a 62 in Round 1 and tied the course record with a 61 in the fourth round. It's just that he struggled in the middle rounds at 73-70 and finished fourth at 14 under.

My winning choice was Matt Kuchar, but he finished T32 largely due to a second-round 73. I may have been a week premature on Kuchar, as I'll explain shortly. Jordan Spieth was the +900 favorite but again disappointed in his hometown area with a T32.

Before I get to this week's Memorial Tournament, there was an interesting report last week from Reuters about the potential of a 'World Golf Series.' That would consist of 15-20 tournaments worldwide each with a whopping purse of $20 million thanks to several big-name sponsors. The British-based World Golf Group has proposed the series. I'm not sure this will get off the ground only because both the PGA and European Tours have pretty strict rules for keeping your card. In the 1990s, Greg Norman proposed a similar tour, and the PGA Tour said it would remove memberships of any players who signed up for it.

There are probably five tiers of events on the PGA Tour currently. You have Tier 1, which are the four majors. Then Tier 2, the World Golf Championship events. Then Tier 3 is the Players Championship, Tour Championship, FedEx Cup playoff. Tier 4 is made up of five invitationals, which limit the field to 120 and offer a bigger purse and more perks for a win. The Memorial Tournament is one of those (Tier 5 is everything else).

The Memorial always gets a strong field because: 1) It's hosted by Jack Nicklaus; 2) It's played at the world-renowned Muirfield Village Golf Club outside Columbus, Ohio (where Nicklaus was born and raised and starred at Ohio State; the course also has hosted the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup); and 3) Many guys use it as the final warmup for the U.S. Open. Eight of the world's Top 10 are set to play this week as well as five-time champion Tiger Woods for the first time since 2015. That year he shot a third-round 85, still his worst-ever score as a pro.

Muirfield Village is tough but fair, so you will surely need to score double-digits under par to win. It's a par 72 measuring almost 7,400 yards. You won't often see a player win a tournament with a third-round 77, but Jason Dufner did in 2017. He was four back entering Sunday but shot a 68 to finish at 13-under 275, three shots ahead of Rickie Fowler and Anirban Lahiri. No player has repeated here since Tiger won his third straight in 2001.

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Dustin Johnson and Jason Day are both +1200. DJ was 17^th at the Players Championship last time out and lost his world No. 1 ranking. He missed the cut here last year but was third in 2016. Day is pseudo-local now as his wife is from the area. The course doesn't seem to suit him well, though, with nary a Top 10 in his career at Muirfield.

Rose is +1400 to be the first player to win back-to-back this season. Thomas, who tees it up as the world No. 1 for the first time, is also +1400 as is Rory McIlroy. Jordan Spieth is +1600 and Tiger +2000. Rose won here in 2010 and was second in both 2015 and 2008. Thomas missed the cut here in 2015-16 but was fourth last year. McIlroy finished second at the BMW PGA Championship last week and was fourth here in his last visit in 2016. Spieth's best result at Muirfield is third in 2015.

Dufner is +6000 to win again.

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For a Top 10, I'll go Kuchar (+275), who has a win here (2013) and five other Top-8 finishes since 2009, McIlroy (+105) and Marc Leishman (+275). Tiger is +200 for one and I'm not loving that.

For top American, go Kuchar at +2000. Head-to-head, like Adam Scott (-110) over Phil Mickelson (-120), Leishman (-130) over Kuchar (even), Bubba Watson (-110) over Patrick Reed (-120), Henrik Stenson (-115) over Hideki Matsuyama (-115), Johnson (-120) over Day (-110), and McIlroy (-115) over Rose (-115).

I was tempted to pick Kuchar again, but let's go Leishman at +3500. He comes off a runner-up at the Byron Nelson and hasn't been worse than T15 his past three trips here with a scoring average of 69.67.

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Saturday, 8:15 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday, 8:10 a.m.-6 p.m.

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UPDATE No. 10 (6:30 p.m. ET): DeChambeau is your 54-hole leader. Here’s the day’s recap…

UPDATE No. 9 (5:50 p.m. ET): An updated leaderboard….

DeChambeau and Stanley are tied at the top.

UPDATE No. 8 (5:07 p.m. ET): We have a four-way tie for the lead now! Bryson DeChambeau joins Patrick Cantlay, Kyle Stanley and Joaquin Niemann at the top at 13 under with this putt…

UPDATE No. 7 (4:13 p.m. ET): Joaquin Niemann took the lead by eagling the par-5 seventh to move to 13 under. He’s since bogeyed the 10th, though, and Patrick Cantlay eagled the 15th to move to 13 under.

Cantlay leads by one over Niemann and Justin Rose (who is through 14). Kyle Stanley is 11 under through 10.

UPDATE No. 6 (2:35 p.m. ET): A 7-iron from 185 yards finds the bottom of the cup for a hole-in-one and Patrick Cantlay is your new solo leader!

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He moves to 11 under after that ace at the eighth. Stanley and Niemann have both bogeyed to drop to 10 under.

UPDATE No. 5 (1:55 p.m. ET): The leaders are finally off, with Kyle Stanley and Joaquin Niemann going off No. 1.

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They remain in front at 11 under, but Tiger Woods is now one back after playing his first 11 in 5 under. Justin Rose and Byeon Hun An are T-4 at 9 under early in their rounds. Rory McIlroy (74-70-64) and Justin Thomas (5 under through 17) are both at 8 under. Phil Mickelson (3 under through 13) is 7 under overall.

UPDATE No. 4 (12:45 p.m. ET): Phil Mickelson makes four straight birdies from Nos. 4-7 and he’s now 7 under and four back.

Remember, he came home in 30 yesterday to not only make the weekend but himself on the fringe of contention heading into Saturday.

UPDATE No. 3 (12:10 p.m. ET): McIlroy has to scramble around the last three holes, but he somehow comes out of it with three straight pars.

That means an 8-under 64 for Rors. He’s now T-4 after starting the day T-69. He’ll probably be worse than T-4 and within three of the lead by day’s end. Regardless, he’s back in contention here.

UPDATE No. 2 (11:30 a.m. ET): McIlroy birdies Nos. 12 and 13 as well!

He actually parred 14 and 15 (despite having just 205 yards for his second shot at the par 5), but he’s now 8 under for the round and overall. He’s jumped 65 spots to T-4 and is now just three back.

Chris Kirk is in with a 66 and is T-17 at 6 under. Some other low rounds out there today, but nobody has touched Rory’s.

UPDATE No. 1 (10:40 a.m. ET): Are low scores out there Saturday at Muirfield Village? They sure are!

Rory McIlroy is 6 under through 11 on his round and rocketed 54 spots to a tie for 15th at 6 under. The same with Chris Kirk (through 14), and he made the cut on the number, like McIlroy, after making par following a topped tee shot. David Lingmerth is 7 under through eight and now T-3 at 9 under.

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Of course, once the lead groups go off, they will make birdies, too, we imagine, and these guys won’t be so far up the leaderboard. Regardless, this is nice to see.