2022 Memorial Tournament: Top 10 Power Rankings at Muirfield Village

If you’re backing Cameron Smith this week, it’s based on current form and not course history. I’d like to have him higher up my power rankings, but two made cuts (both outside the top 60) in five Memorial Tournament appearances isn’t up to snuff with his career elsewhere.

With that said, Smith nearly made the weekend last year as 73-74 left him just a shot outside the cut line.

Current form can often override bad memories on a particular layout. Smith had an uncharacteristically bad putting week in his last start at the PGA Championship, but he put together one of his best ball-striking weeks of the season to salvage T-13th.

Smith led the field in strokes gained approach and SG tee to green while settling for 76th on the greens. You won’t see that often out of the Aussie.

Smith ranks ninth on the PGA Tour in SG putting (.681). He’s also first in SG approach (1.078) and third in SG total (1.948).

When he gets hot, watch out.

The Aussie leads the PGA Tour in birdie average (5.19).

That was on full display when Smith posted a PGA Tour record 34-under-par to win the Sentry Tournament of Champions.

Smith is also a winner this year at the Players Championship and took T-3rd at the Masters.

All four par-3s on the course measure roughly between 175-200 yards. That’s a green-light distance for Smith, who ranks sixth on the PGA Tour in proximity from that range (29’7”).

The key will be driving. Muirfield Village is gettable from the short grass, but it’s tough for Smith to pull off the Houdini act he’s known for from tough spots off the fairway.