Jack Nicklaus changed one hole at Muirfield Village after advice from the players, Scottie Scheffler has revealed

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Scottie Scheffler will be hoping to win the Memorial Tournament for the second time this week.

Jack Nicklaus will be hosting the Memorial Tournament for the 50th time, and Scheffler is the red-hot favourite at Muirfield Village.

Nicklaus spoke to the press about Muirfield Village on Tuesday, and was very open about the changes that he thought were needed due to improved technology.

Scheffler is the kind of player who should thrive at the Memorial.

The 28-year-old has historically done very well around tough golf courses like Muirfield Village and Bay Hill.

Scheffler has already told Nicklaus how excited he is to be back in Dublin, Ohio, to compete.

And nobody would be shocked if the three-time major winner ends the week as the champion.

Scottie Scheffler on the hole Jack Nicklaus changed at Muirfield Village

Scheffler has already won twice this season, including at the PGA Championship two weeks ago.

He leads the race for the FedEx Cup and has firmly cemented his position at the top of the Official Golf World Rankings.

A win at Muirfield Village really would be a big statement from Scheffler.

He looked at ease when addressing the media on Wednesday morning. The 28-year-old is clearly a huge fan of the Golden Bear.

And Scheffler talked about how open Nicklaus is to taking on board advice from the players.

He said, “My suggestion, we talk a lot about hole 16. Just with the way the wind is. He’s kind of pushed that tee more over to the right. 16’s always kind of a big one, just because prevailing wind is down off the left and the pin is back left on Sunday. I think he wanted more of an interesting hole where you had guys kind of chasing the pin a little bit and maybe going in the water, whereas now with the wind being down off the left and super firm it’s almost hard to hold the greens at times, and so he’s taken out that bunker in the front right of the green and done some stuff to give you some run-up areas, and that’s a hole that he’s kind of I think fiddled with over time.“

That really is great to hear. It would be easy for a man with Nicklaus’s experience to reject suggestions from players who haven’t achieved even a tenth of what he did in the game.

Scheffler also went on to share something really cool that Nicklaus does every single year when he hosts the Memorial.

He said, “Well, one thing that always sticks out to me with Mr. Nicklaus is — well, first of all, he does such a good job at his tournament of being around, and the last few years especially, asking players about his golf course I think is a really cool thing that he does. He wants this golf course to be the best test of golf, and so the last couple years he’s just been sitting in player dining basically asking guys what they think of the course. And he’s not sitting in there for everybody to be like, Hey, we love it, it’s great, everything’s the best. He’s like, No I want you to tell me how we can continue to improve this tournament. I think for a man that has the experience he has in the game of golf, for all the stuff he has accomplished, for him to be sitting in dining asking the current guys how he can improve his tournament I think is really cool.

“On a more personal level, I talked about it a bit last year, but I was close to winning this tournament in maybe 2021 or 2020, one of those years, and I felt like if I birdied 18 I think I would have gotten into a playoff. I ended up getting a little over aggressive on the second shot, hitting it out on the green, making bogey, and basically knocking myself out of the tournament. And walking off Mr. Nicklaus is standing there, and he shakes my hand and he says, Listen Scottie, you didn’t make the putt today, but one day you’re going to make the putt on this green to win this tournament. And I said, Well thanks, Mr. Nicklaus, I really appreciate the support, thanks for a great week, year, yada, yada, yada. And a couple years later I was sitting there, and he was right, I made the putt to win the tournament. And it was just a really cool kind of full circle moment. And that was a few years ago, that wasn’t something that he needed to say to me, but for some reason he felt the need to, and it was something that I didn’t forget. And for a guy that doesn’t have a very good memory, you know, that’s a pretty cool thing for him to do.“

Scottie Scheffler’s PGA Tour career by numbers

The recent PGA champion has a truly stunning record in the game already.

He is a consistent winner, and has numerous trophies from some of the biggest and most prestigious tournaments to his name.

At the age of just 28, Scheffler’s record looks pretty special already.

If he continues to win at his current clip, Scheffler will reach legendary status within the next five years or so.

He is by far and away the best golfer on the planet right now, and a win at Muirfield Village would prove that even more so.