Same course, different tests: How Muirfield Village will host two PGA Tour events

Muirfield Village is prepared to host a doubleheader, but don’t get the impression that the Workday Charity Open and Memorial Tournament will be identical events.

The 157-player field this week at Jack’s Place will encounter a more receptive test as the PGA Tour setup staff readies the course for one of the signature events on the regular-season calendar.

It’s the first time the PGA Tour has used the same course in consecutive weeks for official events since 1957. Gary Young, the tournament director of the Workday event and part of the Tour’s rules and competition team, said that they’re treating these two weeks “very differently” and looking forward to presenting “the golf course in a…