The yearly showdown of Patrick Cantlay vs. Jon Rahm at the Memorial looks to be back as both enter Saturday inside the top seven of the leaderboard.
From a betting perspective, one of those two winning the tournament would be less than ideal since both players were essentially priced out of consideration before the event at sub-10/1 totals. We have gotten a lot of that this season on boards that continue to be more juiced than 90s baseball.
Let's see if we can find where the stats are pointing for the final two days. Personally, I'm crossing my fingers that one of Si Woo Kim, Rickie Fowler or Hideki Matsuyama wins since I placed pre-event wagers on them to walk out of Muirfield Village with the troph y and a handshake from Jack Nicklaus.
If you haven't already, you can find me on Twitter @TeeOffSports. There, I provide a link to my pre-tournament model, a powerful and interactive data spreadsheet that allows user inputs to create custom golf rankings. That sheet is released every Monday, so be sure to check it out and construct your own numbers from my database of information.