Jason Kokrak delivered a 50/1 winner for this column last week at the Charles Schwab Challenge, winning by two strokes over Jordan Spieth. Kokrak has won twice for the 2020-2021 PGA Tour season (2020 CJ Cup at Shadow Creek) but will take this week off. Spieth is an annual participant in the Memorial Tournament hosted by Jack Nicklaus and is tied for second choice on the odds board at 16/1. Spieth has two career top-10 finishes here (third in 2015, seventh in 2019).

The favorite this week is the man who won last year at Jack’s place, Jon Rahm. This year, the World No. 3 player has his price cut in half to 11/1. A win in Nicklaus’ event still eludes Rory McIlroy (16/1), but he does have three top 10s here in eight appearances. World No. 4 Bryson DeChambeau (16/1) does have a victory here back in 2018 but has never really featured here in any other appearance and has been too busy beefing with Brooks Koepka lately.

World No. 2 Justin Thomas (16/1) has two top 10s at the Memorial and finished second on this course at the one-off Workday Charity Open last summer.

Here are some longer shots who are worth a wager this weekend at Muirfield Village in Dublin, Ohio.

Ended up a disappointing eighth last year after being the 36-hole leader. He has four finishes of 13th or better at the Memorial and has a good history on Nicklaus layouts. His putter went awry a couple Sundays ago at the Colonial, losing -3.74 strokes, but the tee-to-green game looked in great shape. Finau finished the week ranked third in the field in strokes gained tee to green and averaged nearly two strokes gained ball striking per round.

While he has cooled a bit from his torrid form in March and April, the ball striking game has stayed true. Although Conners finished 20th last week at Colonial, he once again was top 10 in the field for both Approach and Tee-To-Green.

While DeChambeau and Koepka have their kerfuffle to determine who is the bigger heel on the PGA Tour, the original heel has drifted up to a nice price here. The form does not leap off the page, but he does have a couple top 10s here and is certainly capable.

His game has slowly come back into shape from being well off the grid last season. Woodland also has three top 6 finishes here, including a fifth last year on this course at the Workday.

Shot the low Sunday round at Colonial (-5) to finish T-3 last weekend. Hoffman comes in this year to the Memorial off his best-ever finish at Muirfield Village last year, a seventh.

Has had a couple down-the-board finishes after a third at the Valero and a sixth at the Wells Fargo over a six-week span. The Englishman is just trickling outside the OWGR Top 50 and is still seeking his first breakthrough win on American soil.

Like Hoffman on Sunday at Colonial, Merritt shot a 65 for the low round of the day and may be able to build on that this week. Merritt did the Texas Metroplex two-step with seventh-place finishes in both Dallas and Fort Worth, but also posted another recent top 10 at the Valspar.