DUBLIN, Ohio – Brendan Steele opened with a 4-under 68, one shot better than his start a week ago at Muirfield Village, only this round felt a lot more rewarding.It put him in the lead at the Memorial among the early starters.The PGA Tour is at Muirfield Village for the second straight week, and it only looks like the same course.
The greens, which will be ripped up and replaced after this week, are 2 feet faster on the Stimpmeter, and it showed.Patrick Cantlay hit a pitch-and-run across the fifth green that last week would have settled next to the hole but on Thursday kept rolling until it was just off the green on the other side of the pin.Bryson DeChambeau pounded his tee shots — one of them went 423 yards — and still couldn't get his.