Jack Nicklaus not a fan of Memorial Tournament date, hopes to revert to prior schedule

One significant change to the PGA Tour’s 2024 schedule was moving the Memorial Tournament back a week so that the top players could play at Muirfield Village and fly straight from there to Pinehurst No. 2 for the U.S. Open.

That means this year’s national championship is bookended by a pair of Signature Events, with the Travelers Championship in Connecticut slated for the following week.

Some golf fans have welcomed this change, as the biggest stars on the PGA Tour will tee it up three weeks in a row.

But others have not, includes Jack Nicklaus, who hosts the Memorial annually.

“When I played, I rarely played a

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