The 2019 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational was a professional golf tournament held July 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.

Venue

Course layout TPC Southwind was designed by Ron Prichard, in consultation with tour pros Hubert Green and Fuzzy Zoeller. TPC Southwind opened 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.

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.The 'Strength of Field Rating' is a loose term for what the Official World Golf Ranking calls the 'Total Rating Value' (see Event ranking). 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 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Jon Rahm 62 −8T2 Patrick Cantlay 65 −5 Shugo Imahira Hideki Matsuyama Cameron Smith Bubba WatsonT7 Tyrrell Hatton 66 −4 Nate Lashley Alex Norén Ian Poulter Andrew Putnam Thorbjørn Olesen

Second round Friday, July 26, 2019 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Matt Fitzpatrick 67-64=131 −9T2 Patrick Cantlay 65-68=133 −7 Billy Horschel 67-65=133 Jon Rahm 62-71=133 Cameron Smith 65-68=1336 Shugo Imahira 65-69=134 −6T7 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 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Rory McIlroy 69-67-62=198 −122 Brooks Koepka 68-67-64=199 −113 Matt Fitzpatrick 67-64-69=200 −10T4 Marc Leishman 69-69-63=201 −9 Alex Norén 66-69-66=201 Jon Rahm 62-71-68=201T7 Billy Horschel 67-66-69=202 −8 Thorbjørn Olesen 66-71-65=202 Ian Poulter 66-69-67=202T10 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

PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)1 Brooks Koepka 68-67-64-65=264 −16 1,745,0002 Webb Simpson 69-66-68-64=267 −13 1,095,000 3 Marc Leishman 69-69-63-67=268 −12 602,000T4 Matt Fitzpatrick 67-64-69-69=269 −11 384,333 Tommy Fleetwood 68-70-65-66=269 Rory McIlroy (c) 69-67-62-71=2697 Jon Rahm 62-71-68-69=270 −10 273,0008 Ian Poulter 66-69-67-69=271 −9 242,000T9 Billy Horschel 67-66-69-70=272 −8 205,000 Bubba Watson 65-70-68-69=272 Leaderboard below the top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)11 Justin Rose 67-68-70-68=273 −7 183,000T12 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=274T20 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=275T24 Adam Long 71-70-67-68=276 −4 103,000 Andrew Putnam 66-71-72-67=276 Matthew Wolff 72-70-65-69=276T27 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=27739 Keith Mitchell 73-70-71-64=278 −2 76,000T40 Jason Day 72-69-68-70=279 −1 74,000 Sergio García 69-71-70-69=279 Adam Scott (c) 70-68-74-67=279T43 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=280T48 Bryson DeChambeau 67-74-72-68=281 +1 66,000 Pan Cheng-tsung 72-70-70-69=281 Danny Willett 69-72-70-70=281T51 Lucas Bjerregaard 69-74-72-69=284 +4 63,000 Philip Eriksson 73-72-72-67=284 Eddie Pepperell 70-74-66-74=28454 J. B. Holmes 76-71-68-70=285 +5 61,000T55 Kodai Ichihara 71-70-75-70=286 +6 59,500 Gary Woodland 73-71-70-72=28657 Phil Mickelson 68-73-73-74=288 +8 58,000T58 Mikumu Horikawa 75-77-66-72=290 +10 56,500 Poom Saksansin 68-73-75-74=29060 Kang Sung-hoon 69-75-73-74=291 +11 55,000T61 Keegan Bradley (c) 74-78-65-75=292 +12 53,500 Max Homa 74-73-77-68=29263 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 18Par 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 EagleBirdieBogey

References

External links

Coverage on European Tour's official site TPC Southwind