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2026 Memorial Tournament presented by Workday Final Round Recap & Highlights

Read the final-round recap, playoff finish, and completed leaderboard update below, then scroll down for the official Sunday highlights video.

CaddyBytes 🏆 2026 Memorial Tournament presented by Workday Final Recap: Sunday at Muirfield Village turned into a marathon finish at Jack's place, and J.T. Poston delivered the final answer. After a long day that stretched through the completion of Round 3, the full final round, and two playoff holes, Poston defeated Ryan Gerard with a par on the second extra hole to win the 2026 Memorial Tournament presented by Workday.

The final pairing had 31 holes scheduled when the day began, but the championship needed even more. Poston and Gerard finished regulation tied at 12-under, both at 276, before the tournament moved into a playoff. Poston missed a chance to win on the first extra hole, but he stayed steady, watched Gerard miss the short comeback on the second playoff hole, and walked away with the biggest title of his PGA TOUR career.

Poston's path was not clean, which made the finish even better. His Friday 65 was still the separator that put him in position, but the final round nearly got away from him when bogeys at 12 and 13 pulled him back into a crowded leaderboard. At one point, five players were tied at 11-under, and Muirfield Village's closing stretch looked ready to decide the whole tournament.

Then Poston stopped playing defense and went back after the golf course. He birdied 14 and 15, made a critical par save at 17, and poured in the birdie at 18 to force the playoff. That closing response was the championship moment: he had looked like he might drift out of the story, then found three birdies over his final five holes when the tournament demanded it.

Gerard did plenty to make Poston earn it. He closed with a Sunday 68, made a clutch birdie at 17, and kept answering punches late in regulation. The playoff miss will sting, but this was another major step in a season where Gerard keeps showing he belongs in heavy PGA TOUR moments. His runner-up finish at one of the toughest tests on the schedule is a result he can build from.

Wyndham Clark nearly crashed the playoff conversation with a final-round 67, finishing solo third at 11-under. Coming off a recent win, Clark looked confident again, especially with the irons and with pressure putts. He finished only one shot out of the playoff and now heads forward with a much stronger form signal than he had earlier in the season.

Sam Burns and Tommy Fleetwood both had real chances before finishing tied for fourth at 10-under. Burns kept putting himself into the lead conversation, but a loose back-nine decision and late mistakes kept him from turning a strong week into a win. Fleetwood also had the lead within reach, including a big late move, but the mistake at 17 became the kind of compounding error that hurts at Muirfield Village.

The leaderboard had other closing-day movers too. Alex Fitzpatrick and Kristoffer Reitan both fired final-round 65s to finish tied for sixth at 8-under. Eric Cole ended eighth at 7-under, while Alex Noren finished ninth at 6-under. Si Woo Kim used a closing 66 to join Maverick McNealy at 5-under in a tie for 10th.

The bigger-name watch ended farther back. Rory McIlroy shot 68 and finished at 4-under, the same visible final-score lane as Justin Rose and Scottie Scheffler. McIlroy flashed early on Sunday, while Scheffler's three-peat bid never fully caught fire. For both, the Memorial became more of a form check before the next major than a true Sunday trophy run.

The shot-of-the-day reel also had room for Denny McCarthy, whose hole-out from left of left at the 15th became one of the wildest highlights of the tournament. But the finish belonged to Poston, Gerard, and a closing stretch that did exactly what Muirfield Village is built to do: separate players under pressure and make every miss feel expensive.

Poston's win also changes the shape of his season. He entered the week without a top-20 finish in 2026, but he leaves with a signature-event victory, a massive FedEx Cup jump, and major-championship doors opening for the rest of the summer. The handshake with Jack Nicklaus was the perfect ending to a week where the Postman delivered on the longest day.

Final leaderboard note: J.T. Poston and Ryan Gerard finished regulation tied at 12-under and 276. Poston posted rounds of 70-65-69-72, while Gerard went 67-69-72-68. Poston then won the Memorial on the second playoff hole.

Wyndham Clark finished solo third at 11-under after rounds of 67-75-68-67. He ended one shot outside the playoff and was one of the strongest Sunday finishers among the main contenders.

Sam Burns and Tommy Fleetwood tied for fourth at 10-under. Burns finished 69-69-71-69, while Fleetwood closed 67-73-70-68. Both had chances inside the final stretch before Poston and Gerard separated into the playoff.

Alex Fitzpatrick and Kristoffer Reitan tied for sixth at 8-under after matching closing 65s. Eric Cole finished eighth at 7-under, and Alex Noren finished ninth at 6-under.

Si Woo Kim and Maverick McNealy tied for 10th at 5-under. Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose, and Scottie Scheffler were among the visible group at 4-under, leaving the final board with Poston and Gerard clearly separated by the playoff finish at the top.

The Sunday key was the closing stretch. With five players tied at 11-under late, Muirfield Village forced players to keep hitting committed shots under pressure. Gerard birdied 17, Poston birdied 18, and the second playoff hole finally decided a tournament that had already asked the leaders for 33 holes in one day.

Video courtesy of Golf on CBS / YouTube.