2020 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational

The 2020 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational was the 22nd WGC Invitational held July 30 – August 2 at the TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee. Originally planned for July 2–5, it was rescheduled and played with no spectators in attendance due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1]

2020 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational

Tournament information
Dates	July 30 – August 2
Location	Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. 35.057°N 89.779°W / 35.057; -89.779
Course(s)	TPC Southwind
Tour(s)	PGA Tour European Tour
Statistics
Par	70
Length	7,244 yards (6,624 m)
Field	78 players
Cut	None
Prize fund	$10,250,000
Winner's share	$1,745,000
Champion
Justin Thomas
267 (−13)
Location map
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FedEx Cup leader Justin Thomas won his second WGC Invitational title, and returned to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking having last held that position in June 2018. Thomas became the third-youngest player to win 13 times on the PGA Tour since 1960, behind Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus.^[2]

Venue

Main article: TPC Southwind

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 consists of players drawn primarily from the Official World Golf Ranking and the winners of the worldwide tournaments with the strongest fields.^[3][4] In order to ensure a field of 78 players, changes were made to the exemption criteria with the addition of players ranked outside the top-50 in the world rankings. The adjustment was due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.^[5]

1. Playing members of the 2019 United States and International Presidents Cup teams.

An Byeong-hun (2), Abraham Ancer (2,3,4), Patrick Cantlay (2,3,4), Bryson DeChambeau (2,3,4,5), Tony Finau (2,3,4), Rickie Fowler (2,3,4), Adam Hadwin, Im Sung-jae (2,3,4,5), Dustin Johnson (2,3,4,5), Matt Kuchar (2,3,4), Marc Leishman (2,3,4,5), Li Haotong, Hideki Matsuyama (2,3,4), Joaquín Niemann (5), Louis Oosthuizen (2,3,4), Pan Cheng-tsung, Patrick Reed (2,3,4,5), Xander Schauffele (2,3,4), Webb Simpson (2,3,4,5), Cameron Smith (2,3,4,5), Justin Thomas (2,3,4,5), Gary Woodland (2,3,4)

• Adam Scott^[6] (2,3,4,5,6) and Tiger Woods^[7] (2,3,4,5) did not play.

2. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of March 15, 2020 (rankings frozen for 13 weeks).

Christiaan Bezuidenhout (3,4,6), Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Paul Casey (3,4,5), Matt Fitzpatrick (3,4), Tommy Fleetwood (3,4,5), Sergio García (3,4), Tyrrell Hatton (3,4,5), Billy Horschel (3,4), Jazz Janewattananond (3,4,6), Kevin Kisner (3,4), Brooks Koepka (3,4,5), Shane Lowry (3,4), Graeme McDowell (5), Rory McIlroy (3,4,5), Collin Morikawa (3,4,5), Kevin Na (3,4,5), Victor Perez (3,4,5), Jon Rahm (3,4,5), Chez Reavie (3,4), Scottie Scheffler, Brandt Snedeker, Henrik Stenson (3,4), Erik van Rooyen (3,4), Matt Wallace (3,4), Bernd Wiesberger (3,4,5), Danny Willett (3,4,5)

• Shugo Imahira (3,4,6), Francesco Molinari (3,4), Justin Rose (3,4), and Lee Westwood^[8] (3,4,5) did not play.

3. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 20, 2020.

Daniel Berger (4,5), Jason Day (4), Viktor Hovland (4), Ryan Palmer (4), Kevin Streelman (4)

4. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 27, 2020.

5. 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.^[a]

Cameron Champ, Tyler Duncan, Lucas Herbert, Matt Jones, Andrew Landry, J. T. Poston, Sebastian Söderberg, Nick Taylor, Michael Thompson, Brendon Todd

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

• Asian Tour: Indonesian Masters (2019) – Jazz Janewattananond, also qualified under categories 2, 3 and 4.
• PGA Tour of Australasia: Australian PGA Championship (2019) – Adam Scott, also qualified under categories 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
• Japan Golf Tour: Bridgestone Open (2019) – Shugo Imahira, also qualified under categories 2, 3 and 4.
• Japan Golf Tour: Japan Golf Tour Championship (2020) – Cancelled
• Sunshine Tour: Dimension Data Pro-Am (2020) – Christiaan Bezuidenhout, also qualified under categories 2, 3 and 4.

7. Alternates to fill field to 78 (if necessary) from the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 20, 2020

1. Ian Poulter (53)
2. Matthew Wolff (55)
3. Kang Sung-hoon (58)
4. Bubba Watson (59)
5. Jordan Spieth (60)
6. Corey Conners (63)
7. Jason Kokrak (66)
8. Tom Lewis (67)
9. Joel Dahmen (68)
10. Shaun Norris (69)
11. Phil Mickelson (70)
12. Keegan Bradley (72)
13. Thomas Pieters (73) – did not play
14. Max Homa (74)
15. Mackenzie Hughes (75)
16. Robert MacIntyre (76)

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, July 30, 2020

With only one top-10 finish since August 2019, defending champion Brooks Koepka tied his career-best score with a 62 to take the first-round lead. Koepka has a reputation of peaking during major season, and the first major of the season is due to be held the following week.^[9]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Brooks Koepka	62	−8
T2	Rickie Fowler	64	−6
	Brendon Todd
4	Kang Sung-hoon	65	−5
T5	Max Homa	66	−4
	Matt Kuchar
	Chez Reavie
	Justin Thomas
T9	Abraham Ancer	67	−3
	Bryson DeChambeau
	Sergio García
	Viktor Hovland
	Im Sung-jae
	Phil Mickelson

Second round

Friday, July 31, 2020

Brendon Todd took a 36-hole lead attempting to gain his third victory this PGA Tour season, two strokes ahead of Rickie Fowler who was also aiming for his first World Golf Championship win.

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Brendon Todd	64-65=129	−11
2	Rickie Fowler	64-67=131	−9
T3	An Byeong-hun	68-65=133	−7
	Brooks Koepka	62-71=133
	Chez Reavie	66-67=133
T6	Matt Fitzpatrick	70-64=134	−6
	Kang Sung-hoon	65-69=134
T8	Jason Day	68-67=135	−5
	Im Sung-jae	67-68=135
	Louis Oosthuizen	68-67=135
	Webb Simpson	69-66=135

Third round

Saturday, August 1, 2020

Brendon Todd maintained his 36-hole lead. Tom Lewis tied the tournament and course record with a 9-under 61 to move 47 spots up the leaderboard.

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Brendon Todd	64-65-69=198	−12
2	An Byeong-hun	68-65-66=199	−11
3	Rickie Fowler	64-67-69=200	−10
4	Brooks Koepka	62-71-68=201	−9
5	Justin Thomas	66-70-66=202	−8
T6	Matt Fitzpatrick	70-64-69=203	−7
	Phil Mickelson	67-70-66=203
	Louis Oosthuizen	68-67-68=203
	Chez Reavie	66-67-70=203
T10	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	71-69-64=204	−6
	Joel Dahmen	72-67-65=204
	Jason Day	68-67-69=204
	Im Sung-jae	67-68-69=204
	Tom Lewis	73-70-61=204
	Shane Lowry	68-69-67=204
	Webb Simpson	69-66-69=204

Final round

Sunday, August 2, 2020

Final leaderboard

Champion

(c) = past champion

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Justin Thomas (c)	66-70-66-65=267	−13	1,745,000
T2	Daniel Berger	71-67-67-65=270	−10	695,000
	Brooks Koepka (c)	62-71-68-69=270
	Tom Lewis	73-70-61-66=270
	Phil Mickelson	67-70-66-67=270
T6	Jason Day	68-67-69-67=271	−9	268,333
	Matt Fitzpatrick	70-64-69-68=271
	Shane Lowry (c)	68-69-67-67=271
	Louis Oosthuizen	68-67-68-68=271
	Chez Reavie	66-67-70-68=271
	Xander Schauffele	68-70-67-66=271

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T12	An Byeong-hun	68-65-66-73=272	−8	166,667
	Dustin Johnson (c)	69-68-68-67=272
	Webb Simpson	69-66-69-68=272
T15	Abraham Ancer	67-75-65-66=273	−7	131,400
	Rickie Fowler	64-67-69-73=273
	Ryan Palmer	69-69-71-64=273
	Scottie Scheffler	69-67-69-68=273
	Brendon Todd	64-65-69-75=273
T20	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	71-69-64-70=274	−6	106,200
	Joel Dahmen	72-67-65-70=274
	Hideki Matsuyama (c)	68-71-67-68=274
	Collin Morikawa	70-71-67-66=274
	Erik van Rooyen	71-70-68-65=274
T25	Cameron Champ	71-68-67-69=275	−5	87,200
	Billy Horschel	70-70-68-67=275
	Kevin Kisner	70-68-72-65=275
	Matt Kuchar	66-72-71-66=275
	Bubba Watson	68-70-71-66=275
T30	Corey Conners	72-68-66-70=276	−4	72,000
	Bryson DeChambeau	67-73-69-67=276
	Andrew Landry	70-72-66-68=276
	J. T. Poston	70-68-70-68=276
	Jordan Spieth	68-69-68-71=276
T35	Patrick Cantlay	73-72-65-67=277	−3	56,111
	Tommy Fleetwood	72-67-73-65=277
	Sergio García	67-71-68-71=277
	Im Sung-jae	67-68-69-73=277
	Graeme McDowell	68-70-70-69=277
	Kevin Na	72-64-74-67=277
	Henrik Stenson	69-69-70-69=277
	Kevin Streelman	71-66-71-69=277
	Nick Taylor	69-70-67-71=277
T44	Mackenzie Hughes	68-71-70-69=278	−2	49,000
	Kang Sung-hoon	65-69-72-72=278
	Jason Kokrak	69-68-71-70=278
T47	Rory McIlroy (c)	73-66-73-67=279	−1	46,500
	Patrick Reed	71-69-69-70=279
T49	Tyler Duncan	74-70-66-70=280	E	44,000
	Lucas Herbert	71-73-69-67=280
	Matthew Wolff	69-74-65-72=280
T52	Keegan Bradley	68-70-70-73=281	+1	40,000
	Max Homa	66-73-72-70=281
	Marc Leishman	70-69-69-73=281
	Joaquín Niemann	73-73-68-67=281
	Jon Rahm	70-74-71-66=281
T57	Michael Thompson	70-74-69-69=282	+2	37,250
	Gary Woodland	71-69-73-69=282
T59	Viktor Hovland	67-75-72-69=283	+3	35,250
	Jazz Janewattananond	75-71-68-69=283
	Matt Jones	71-72-69-71=283
	Robert MacIntyre	71-73-69-70=283
	Cameron Smith	72-72-71-68=283
	Matt Wallace	72-71-73-67=283
T65	Tony Finau	70-68-72-74=284	+4	33,250
	Victor Perez	73-71-70-70=284
T67	Paul Casey	71-78-69-67=285	+5	32,625
	Brandt Snedeker	73-71-72-69=285
T69	Tyrrell Hatton	72-69-73-73=287	+7	32,000
	Ian Poulter	73-69-72-73=287
	Danny Willett	69-70-74-74=287
T72	Adam Hadwin	73-71-75-69=288	+8	31,375
	Pan Cheng-tsung	72-74-70-72=288
74	Bernd Wiesberger	71-73-75-70=289	+9	31,000
T75	Li Haotong	68-73-74-75=290	+10	30,625
	Shaun Norris	73-76-72-69=290
77	Sebastian Söderberg	72-71-75-73=291	+11	30,250
78	Rafa Cabrera-Bello	73-74-76-72=295	+15	30,000

Notes

1. The "Strength of Field Rating" is a measure of the overall quality of players in the field. It is used by the Official World Golf Ranking to determine the number of ranking points available at each tournament, subject to tour minimums.

References

1. "PGA Tour announces schedule adjustments for remainder of 2019–20 FedExCup season, releases fall portion of 2020–21 PGA Tour Regular Season schedule". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
2. "Justin Thomas holds off Brooks Koepka to win FedEx-St. Jude Invitational, reclaims No. 1 ranking in golf". Boston Globe. Associated Press. August 2, 2020. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
3. Bolton, Rob. "2020 Qualifiers for majors, The Players, WGCs". PGA Tour. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
4. "Inside the Field: WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational". PGA Tour. July 24, 2020. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
5. Hoggard, Rex (July 9, 2020). "WGC-FedEx St. Jude will alter exemptions in order to increase field size". Golf Channel. Retrieved July 26, 2020.
6. Lavner, Ryan (July 23, 2020). "Adam Scott to return in two weeks at PGA Championship". Golf Channel. Retrieved July 26, 2020.
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External links

• Official website
• TPC Southwind
• Media Guide