Niall Lyons provides an early look at the Fedex St Jude Championship for Oddschecker Unlimited subscribers ahead of revealing his final betting selections for the event on Monday.

For a reminder of his picks for the Wyndham Championship click here.

Fedex St Jude Championship Field

The Fedex St Jude Championship invites the top 70 players in the FedExCup standings at the conclusion of the Wyndham Championship.

We therefore have to wait for this weekends tournament in Grrenboro to conclude to see the full field of players.

However, there are a number of names we know for certain will get the invite including Masters champion Scottie Scheffler who is off the back of Olympic Gold in Paris.

Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele, Colin Morikawa, Hideki Matsuyama, Patrick Cantlay, Ludvig Aberg and Justin Thomas all sit in the top 20 of the FedExCup standings at the time of writing this and will comfortably get the invite.

Fedex St Jude Championship Course

TPC Southwind, Memphis, Tennessee. 

The last two editions of this event have been held at TPC Southwind and prior to that we know this course from holding the Fedex St Jude Classic since 1989.

The tournament moved to WGC status in 2019 then from 2022 onwards formed part of the Fedex playoff events.

The top 70 in the Fedex rankings make their way to Memphis this week and in the stats table below I've included the last three years this course has held an event.

Neither driving statistic rates prominently in the results here and even strokes gained off the tee doesn't feature a lot.

Instead look to what happens from the second shot onwards with the leader in greens in regulation making the top 5 in two of the last three editions.

The leader in scrambling has made the top 5 in each of the last three years so clearly precision with irons or an ability to save shots around the greens counts a lot more than strong driving this week. 

Here are the key stats for the top 5 finishers (including ties) in the last three renewals of the Fedex St Jude Championship.

 

Fedex St Jude Championship Winners

  • 2023 - L.Glover (-15)
  • 2022 - W.Zalatoris (-15)
  • 2021 - T.Finau (-20)*
  • 2020 - D.Johnson (-30)**
  • 2019 - P.Reed (-16)*

*Held at Liberty National
**Held at TPC Boston

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