Pat Mayo and Geoff Fienberg preview the course and run through the odds while making their 2023 St. Jude Championship Picks week’s event at TPC Southwind.
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2022 FedEx St. Jude Championship: Field
Field: 70 Players | No Cut
First Tee: Thursday, August 10
Defending Champion: Will Zalatoris
2023 FedEx St. Jude Championship: Course
Course: TPC Southwind
Yardage: 7,243
Par: 70
Greens: Bermuda
Par 3’s (4) – Average distance: 184 yards
– All four Par 3’s have a par rate north of 65% and offer little room for separation as a result: none of these holes rank as a top-5 or bottom-5 hole in terms of difficulty, you just take your par and move on.
Par 4’s (12) – Average distance: 450 yards
– Three of the four toughest holes on the course are back-9 Par 4’s, two of which carry a double-or-worse rate north of 5.5%.
Par 5’s (2) – Average distance: 555 yards
– Easily the two easiest holes on the course, with #16 seeing the majority of the field score under par (51.4%).
2023 FedEx St. Jude Championship: Key Stats
Strokes Gained: Approach
Par 4s Gained: 450-500 Yards
Opportunities Gained
Strokes Gained: Off The Tee
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2023 FedEx St. Jude Championship: Past Winners
WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational
2022: Will Zalatoris -15
2021: Abraham Ancer -16
2020: Justin Thomas -13
2019: Brooks Koepka -16
St. Jude Classic
2018: Dustin Johnson -19
2017: Daniel Berger -10
2016: Daniel Berger -13
2015: Fabian Gomez -13
2014: Ben Crane -10
2013: Harris English -12
2012: Dustin Johnson -9
2011: Harrison Frazar -13
2010: Lee Westwood -10
2022: Will Zalatoris (-15, defeated Sepp Straka in a playoff)
– He was 7 shots worse than Straka on Thursday but was able to claw back with a 63 and 65 over the next two rounds.
– 10 of the top-11 finishers gained proximity in the 175-200-yard bucket (Zalatoris was a wizard with his irons and gained in every single yardage range for the week)
2022 DETAIL
What did the Top 12 finishers at this event do well during the 2022 season as a whole?
- 9 of 12 gained strokes OTT in over 65% of their rounds
- 9 of 12 gained strokes on Par 4’s in over 63% of their rounds
- Only half gained strokes putting in the majority of rounds, but 11 of 12 three putted less often than the field in over 56% of rounds
2023 FedEx St. Jude Championship: Picks
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Tyrrell Hatton
In a year that’s given you a blueprint for winners based on trending form, you’d think Hatton has to win one of the next few events. Since venturing to America for the first time at Waste Management in February, the Brit has piled up seven Top 6 finishes in 15 events and in total has finished outside the Top 20 in only four of those events. He’s currently sitting Top 10 in the field in driving and putting over the past 50 rounds, per Fantasy National, while gaining an average 2.4 strokes on approach over his last 10 starts.
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