Billy Horschel

Horschel, now ranked 11th in the world, won his first PGA Tour stroke-play event since 2017.

2005 (+2.03) is the largest jump in that span. He hit only 29 of 56 fairways and lost strokes to the field off the tee for the first time on the PGA Tour since the 2020 Charles Schwab Challenge -- the first start out of the COVID-19 restart. All signs point to him continuing his strong play in major championships at The Country Club. The last time the U.S. Open was in the Northeast, he finished in a tie for sixth in his championship debut. T5. Max Homa (-6): It was a "what-if" final round for the four-time winner on the PGA Tour as Homa was flawless for 16 holes. T5. Will Zalatoris (-6): A letdown at the Charles Schwab Challenge felt inevitable after his playoff loss at the PGA Championship. We will let that missed cut slide as Zalatoris' typically strong ball-striking returned at Muirfield Village and propelled him to a top-five finish. Still, it was another impressive outing on a difficult golf course for Homa, and he will now turn his attention to the U.S. Open. Having finished in a tie for 13th at the PGA Championship, maybe he has finally figured out major championships as they had previously been troublesome for him. T3. Joaquin Niemann (-7): Many will point to his double bogey on the par-4 14th as a sign of his around the green game still needing work, but I tend to disagree. There is motivation, there is momentum, and there is a real chance Horschel plays a factor at the U.S. Open at The Country Club in two weeks. Even last fall, Horschel arrived at the Tour Championship at 29th in the standings, started 10 strokes behind Patrick Cantlay and proceeded to claw his way to ninth-place by week's end. He has always been a player to thrive on momentum, but this triumph is markedly different from those in the past. A tight PGA Tour event turned into a relatively stress-free victory for Billy Horschel, who claimed the 2022 Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village by four strokes. "We didn't do that well the last two weeks [go through his process], and Fooch [caddie Mark Fulcher] and I just had a conversation after Colonial after we missed the cut last week," said Horschel, who claimed $2.2 million for his Memorial victory.