20-under 264. Tony Finau ended more than five years and 142 tournaments without winning with a dynamic charge on the back nine and big miss from …
Jun 10, 2015 · The Course: TPC Southwind, Memphis, Tennessee Principal Architects : Ron Prichard, with consultants Fuzzy Zoeller and Hubert Green, 1988 Defending Champion : Ben Crane, United States
Winner's Bag: Abraham Ancer, WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational. Harris English drains a 31-foot birdie at WGC-FedEx St. Jude. Hideki Matsuyama sinks …
Jun 08, 2015 · The course will play as a par 71, measuring 7,456 yards with paspalum greens. The field is set at 144 golfers, and the top 65 and ties will make the cut.
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Location | Memphis, Tennessee |
Established | 1958, 64 years ago |
Course(s) | TPC Southwind |
Par | 70 |
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Dates | August 19 – September 5, 2021 |
Location | Liberty National Golf Club Caves Valley Golf Club East Lake Golf Club |
Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
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For the first three years of their sponsorship, FedEx increased the purse one dollar for each package they shipped on the Friday of the tournament. The purses went from $500,000 to $605,912 in 1986, from $600,000 to $724,043 in 1987, and from $750,000 to $953,842 in 1988.
In 2019, FedEx took over sponsorship of the WGC Invitational and relocated the tournament to Memphis in late July. The relocated WGC event continues the charitable relationship with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
TPC Southwind. The event's final edition at Colonial Country Club in Cordova was 33 years ago in 1988. It moved to its present location at TPC Southwind in Memphis in 1989. The purse in 2018 was $ 6.6 million, with a winner's share of $1.188 million.
The FedEx St. Jude Classic was a professional golf tournament held in Memphis, Tennessee as a regular event on the PGA Tour. The tournament was held annually from 1958 through 2018, and was played in June at TPC Southwind (since 1989).
In 2019, FedEx took over sponsorship of the WGC Invitationaland relocated the t…
The tournament debuted 64 years ago in May 1958 as the Memphis Open and was played annually at Colonial Country Club in Memphis through 1971, then at the club's new home in Cordova through 1988. The late Vernon Bell, a Memphis restaurateur, co-founded the tournament and served as the tournament's general chairman for 22 years. He is also the father of the late Chris Bell.
Seven men have won the St. Jude Classic more than once through 2018.
• 4 wins: Dave Hill (1967, 1969, 1970, 1973)
• 3 wins: Lee Trevino (1971, 1972, 1980)
• 2 wins: Nick Price (1993, 1998), David Toms (2003, 2004), Justin Leonard (2005, 2008), Daniel Berger (2016, 2017), Dustin Johnson (2012, 2018)
• 1958: Billy Maxwell wins the first Memphis Open. He beats Cary Middlecoff by one shot.
• 1961: Local favorite Cary Middlecoff beats Gardner Dickinson and Mike Souchak by five shots.
• 1965: Jack Nicklaus, who played in Memphis very infrequently, beats Johnny Pott on the first hole of a sudden death playoff.
• Official website
• History of Vernon Bell co-founding the event
• Coverage on PGA Tour's official site
• St. Jude Children's Research Hospital