2019 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational

The 2019 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational was a professional golf tournament held July 25–28 at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee. It was the 21st WGC Invitational tournament, and the third of the World Golf Championships events in 2019. It was the first time the event had been held in Tennessee, having previously been based at Firestone Country Club in Ohio.

World number one, Brooks Koepka, completed a three-stroke victory over Webb Simpson to win his first World Golf Championship event. Koepka had begun the final day one shot behind Rory McIlroy, who led the field. With the win, Koepka earned more PGA Tour regular season FedEx Cup points than any other player and won first-place prize of $2 million in the Wyndham Rewards Top 10.^[1]

Venue

Course layout

TPC Southwind was designed by Ron Prichard, in consultation with tour pros Hubert Green and Fuzzy Zoeller. TPC Southwind opened thirty-six years ago in 1988, and is a member of the Tournament Players Club network operated by the PGA Tour.

Hole	Yards	Par		Hole	Yards	Par
1	434	4		10	465	4
2	401	4		11	162	3
3	554	5		12	406	4
4	196	3		13	472	4
5	485	4		14	239	3
6	445	4		15	395	4
7	482	4		16	530	5
8	178	3		17	490	4
9	457	4		18	453	4
Out	3,632	35		In	3,612	35
Source:		Total			7,244	70

Field

The field consisted of players drawn primarily from the Official World Golf Ranking and the winners of the worldwide tournaments with the strongest fields.^[2]

1. Playing members of the 2018 United States and European Ryder Cup teams.

Paul Casey (2,3,4), Bryson DeChambeau (2,3,4), Tony Finau (2,3), Tommy Fleetwood (2,3), Sergio García (2,3), Tyrrell Hatton (2,3), Dustin Johnson (2,3,4), Brooks Koepka (2,3,4), Rory McIlroy (2,3,4), Phil Mickelson (2,3,4), Alex Norén (2,3), Thorbjørn Olesen, Ian Poulter (2,3), Jon Rahm (2,3,4), Patrick Reed (2,3), Justin Rose (2,3,4), Webb Simpson (2,3), Jordan Spieth (2,3), Henrik Stenson (2,3), Justin Thomas (2,3,4), Bubba Watson (2,3)

• Rickie Fowler (2,3,4), Francesco Molinari (2,3,4), and Tiger Woods (2,3,4) did not play.

2. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 15, 2019.

Keegan Bradley (3,4), Rafa Cabrera-Bello (3), Patrick Cantlay (3,4), Jason Day (3), Matt Fitzpatrick (3), Jim Furyk (3), Justin Harding, Billy Horschel (3), Kevin Kisner (3,4), Matt Kuchar (3,4), Marc Leishman (3,4), Li Haotong (3), Hideki Matsuyama (3), Kevin Na (3,4), Louis Oosthuizen (3), Pan Cheng-tsung (3,4), Eddie Pepperell (3,4), Andrew Putnam (3), Chez Reavie (3,4), Xander Schauffele (3,4), Adam Scott (3), Cameron Smith (3,5), Brandt Snedeker (3,4), Matt Wallace (3), Gary Woodland (3,4)

• Shane Lowry (3,4) and Bernd Wiesberger (3,4) did not play.

3. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 22, 2019.

Lucas Bjerregaard (4)

4. Tournament winners, whose victories are considered official, of tournaments from the Federation Tours since the prior season's WGC Invitational with an Official World Golf Ranking Strength of Field Rating of 115 points or more.^[3]

Corey Conners, J. B. Holmes, Max Homa, Kodai Ichihara, Kang Sung-hoon, Nate Lashley, Adam Long, Keith Mitchell, Aaron Rai, Kevin Tway, Danny Willett, Matthew Wolff

• Lee Westwood did not play.

5. The winner of selected tournaments from each of the following tours

• Asian Tour: Indonesian Masters (2018) – Poom Saksansin
• PGA Tour of Australasia: Australian PGA Championship (2018) – Cameron Smith, also qualified under categories 2 and 3
• Japan Golf Tour: Bridgestone Open (2018) – Shugo Imahira
• Japan Golf Tour: Japan Golf Tour Championship (2019) – Mikumu Horikawa
• Sunshine Tour: Dimension Data Pro-Am (2019) – Philip Eriksson

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, July 25, 2019

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Jon Rahm	62	−8
T2	Patrick Cantlay	65	−5
	Shugo Imahira
	Hideki Matsuyama
	Cameron Smith
	Bubba Watson
T7	Tyrrell Hatton	66	−4
	Nate Lashley
	Alex Norén
	Ian Poulter
	Andrew Putnam
	Thorbjørn Olesen

Second round

Friday, July 26, 2019

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Matt Fitzpatrick	67-64=131	−9
T2	Patrick Cantlay	65-68=133	−7
	Billy Horschel	67-65=133
	Jon Rahm	62-71=133
	Cameron Smith	65-68=133
6	Shugo Imahira	65-69=134	−6
T7	Brooks Koepka	68-67=135	−5
	Alex Norén	66-69=135
	Ian Poulter	66-69=135
	Justin Rose	67-68=135
	Webb Simpson	69-66=135
	Bubba Watson	65-70=135

Third round

Saturday, July 27, 2019

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Rory McIlroy	69-67-62=198	−12
2	Brooks Koepka	68-67-64=199	−11
3	Matt Fitzpatrick	67-64-69=200	−10
T4	Marc Leishman	69-69-63=201	−9
	Alex Norén	66-69-66=201
	Jon Rahm	62-71-68=201
T7	Billy Horschel	67-66-69=202	−8
	Thorbjørn Olesen	66-71-65=202
	Ian Poulter	66-69-67=202
T10	Tommy Fleetwood	68-70-65=203	−7
	Webb Simpson	69-66-68=203
	Justin Thomas	68-69-66=203
	Bubba Watson	65-70-68=203

Final round

Sunday, July 28, 2019

Final leaderboard

Champion

(c) = past champion

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Brooks Koepka	68-67-64-65=264	−16	1,745,000
2	Webb Simpson	69-66-68-64=267	−13	1,095,000
3	Marc Leishman	69-69-63-67=268	−12	602,000
T4	Matt Fitzpatrick	67-64-69-69=269	−11	384,333
	Tommy Fleetwood	68-70-65-66=269
	Rory McIlroy (c)	69-67-62-71=269
7	Jon Rahm	62-71-68-69=270	−10	273,000
8	Ian Poulter	66-69-67-69=271	−9	242,000
T9	Billy Horschel	67-66-69-70=272	−8	205,000
	Bubba Watson	65-70-68-69=272

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
11	Justin Rose	67-68-70-68=273	−7	183,000
T12	Rafa Cabrera-Bello	70-71-67-66=274	−6	143,625
	Patrick Cantlay	65-68-73-68=274
	Alex Norén	66-69-66-73=274
	Aaron Rai	72-69-66-67=274
	Patrick Reed	73-66-67-68=274
	Cameron Smith	65-68-73-68=274
	Jordan Spieth	70-70-66-68=274
	Justin Thomas (c)	68-69-66-71=274
T20	Dustin Johnson (c)	69-69-69-68=275	−5	113,500
	Nate Lashley	66-70-71-68=275
	Li Haotong	69-69-67-70=275
	Louis Oosthuizen	73-69-66-67=275
T24	Adam Long	71-70-67-68=276	−4	103,000
	Andrew Putnam	66-71-72-67=276
	Matthew Wolff	72-70-65-69=276
T27	Paul Casey	70-71-69-67=277	−3	86,250
	Corey Conners	67-71-70-69=277
	Tony Finau	70-71-68-68=277
	Jim Furyk	74-65-70-68=277
	Shugo Imahira	65-69-71-72=277
	Kevin Kisner	77-67-66-67=277
	Thorbjørn Olesen	66-71-65-75=277
	Chez Reavie	68-70-68-71=277
	Xander Schauffele	69-70-69-69=277
	Brandt Snedeker	69-73-69-66=277
	Henrik Stenson	69-67-72-69=277
	Matt Wallace	70-69-65-73=277
39	Keith Mitchell	73-70-71-64=278	−2	76,000
T40	Jason Day	72-69-68-70=279	−1	74,000
	Sergio García	69-71-70-69=279
	Adam Scott (c)	70-68-74-67=279
T43	Justin Harding	72-70-64-74=280	E	70,000
	Tyrrell Hatton	66-71-69-74=280
	Matt Kuchar	70-70-71-69=280
	Hideki Matsuyama (c)	65-71-72-72=280
	Kevin Na	70-66-70-74=280
T48	Bryson DeChambeau	67-74-72-68=281	+1	66,000
	Pan Cheng-tsung	72-70-70-69=281
	Danny Willett	69-72-70-70=281
T51	Lucas Bjerregaard	69-74-72-69=284	+4	63,000
	Philip Eriksson	73-72-72-67=284
	Eddie Pepperell	70-74-66-74=284
54	J. B. Holmes	76-71-68-70=285	+5	61,000
T55	Kodai Ichihara	71-70-75-70=286	+6	59,500
	Gary Woodland	73-71-70-72=286
57	Phil Mickelson	68-73-73-74=288	+8	58,000
T58	Mikumu Horikawa	75-77-66-72=290	+10	56,500
	Poom Saksansin	68-73-75-74=290
60	Kang Sung-hoon	69-75-73-74=291	+11	55,000
T61	Keegan Bradley (c)	74-78-65-75=292	+12	53,500
	Max Homa	74-73-77-68=292
63	Kevin Tway	76-77-74-70=297	+17	52,000

Scorecard

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	4	5	3	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	5	4	4
Koepka	−11	−11	−12	−12	−13	−14	−14	−14	−14	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−16	−16
Simpson	−7	−7	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−9	−10	−11	−11	−12	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13
Leishman	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−11	−12	−11	−12	−11	−12	−12	−12
Fitzpatrick	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−11	−10	−9	−9	−11	−11	−11
Fleetwood	−8	−8	−9	−9	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11
McIlroy	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−11	−11	−12	−11	−11	−11	−11
Rahm	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−10	−10	−11	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

References

External links

• Official website
• Coverage on European Tour's official site
• TPC Southwind