Living in and around the greater Cincinnati area, we are spoiled as sports fans.

We have two professional teams playing at the highest level of their respective sports, a myriad of top-notch colleges that compete on the nation’s biggest stages and a high school sports scene that is widely considered to be one of the best in entire country.

The only thing that Cincinnati seemingly doesn’t host is a PGA Tour golf tournament.

Sure, the Nationwide Tour comes through town on a yearly basis at the TPC River’s Bend for the Chiquita Classic and the Golf Center at Kings Island hosted the Kroger Senior Classic until its demise in 2004, but for most sports fans, they want to see the big names; the Tiger Woods’, Phil Mickelson’s and Rory McIlroy’s of the world.

Luckily for us, our state is the birthplace of one of the best golfers to ever pick up a club: Jack Nicklaus.

The Golden Bear was born in Upper Arlington, Ohio, right outside of Columbus. Nicklaus is a buckeye through and through. He grew up right up I-71, went to the Ohio State University and still considers Ohio his home.

In an effort to give back to he community that raised him, Nicklaus gave life to the Muirfield Village Golf Club and the Memorial Tournament.

Beginning with the first event in May of 1976, the Memorial Tournament has become one of the premier tournaments not only on the PGA Tour, but in the world.

The field of players assembled is virtually unparalleled by non-major events and each May the best golfers the world has to offer travel a couple of hours up the road to Dublin, Ohio to compete at Jack’s place.

The event has produced a list of winner’s that is a virtual who’s who of golfing royalty. Nicklaus himself has won the tournament twice. Tom Watson, Raymond Floyd, Hale Irwin, Greg Norman, Fred Couples and Ernie Els have all hoisted the Memorial Trophy.

Some guy named Tiger has won it five times.

This past week, the Muirfield Village Golf Club prepared itself for the game’s best to descend upon Columbus once again.

With storylines galore as the second major championship of the season drew closer, perhaps the most polarizing figure in the game was able to reach back into his bag of tricks and make this particular Sunday in Columbus one to remember.

Tiger Woods shot rounds of 70-69-73-67 to claim his fifth win at the Memorial and his 73rd career PGA Tour win.

Fittingly, Woods’ win tied him with the host (Nicklaus) in career victories. The pair now share the second most career victories behind Sam Snead’s 82.

“It’s awfully special to just have won this event, and to do it here with Jack there at 18, it’s special for us as players,” Woods said in his post-round press conference. “To be able to tie Jack at 73 wins and to do it at such a young age, it feels really special.”

The turning point in Woods’ come-from-behind win was an amazing chip-in on the par 3 16th hole.

In a tough spot behind the green with water in front, Woods would have had to hit the perfect shot to get his ball anywhere close to the hole. Instead of getting it close, Woods made the chip to put him into the lead for the first time all day.

The former world No. 1 added another birdie on the 72nd hole to cement his victory as well as stake his claim as a force to be reckoned with in two weeks at the U.S. Open.

As Cincinnati sports fans, the two hour drive up I-71 is well-worth the price of admission to see the world’s best compete on course that one of the game’s all-time greats calls home.