The 2023 Memorial Tournament did not scare Adam Hadwin off from returning to Muirfield Village Golf Course.
After finishing the first round in 2023 3-under par, Hadwin missed the cut after finishing with four bogeys and two double-bogeys in the second round.
Hadwin put the 2023 tournament behind him in the first round of the 2024 Memorial Tournament Thursday, leaving as the clubhouse leader at 6-under part 72 with eight bogeys.
Hadwin is a stroke ahead of Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 golfer in the world, at 5-under par. Xander Schauffele, Ludvig Aberg, Collin Morikawa and Corey Conners are two strokes behind Hadwin at 4-under.
“I feel pretty comfortable right now over the golf ball with kind of the entire game,” Hadwin said. “I never felt rushed. I never felt that as I kept making birdies, like I was getting ahead of myself or anything like that. Very comfortable. I feel in a lot better position to kind of handle any sort of adversity that may come or when it comes, because I feel like it will come around this place. There’s just too many holes where the margin for error is so small that you can feel like you hit a good shot and get absolutely screwed. I feel like mentally I’m in a really good place right now to be able to handle that and move forward and accept it. And so we’ll show up tomorrow and get ready and see what it holds.”
2024 Memorial Tournament first round leaderboard
Here’s a look at the leaderboard at the end of the first round of the Memorial Tournament:
Adam Hawin: -6
Scottie Scheffler: -5
Collin Morikawa: -4
Xander Schauffele: -4
Ludvig Aberg: -4
Corey Conners: -4
Viktor Hovland: -3
Billy Horschel: -3
Akshay Bhatia: -3
Tommy Fleetwood: -3
Seamus Power: -3