2021 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational
Golf tournament
TPC Southwind
Location in the United States
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The 2021 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational was a professional golf tournament being held August 5–8 at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee. It was the 23rd and final WGC Invitational tournament, the third of the World Golf Championships events in 2021. It was also the 64th year that the PGA Tour stopped in Memphis; dating back to the 1958 Memphis Open. The WGC Invitational was removed from the schedule in 2022, with the venue of the tournament hosting the FedEx St. Jude Championship, a FedEx Cup playoff event, ultimately replacing The Northern Trust.[1]
Abraham Ancer won the event after making a birdie at the second hole of a sudden-death playoff against Sam Burns and Hideki Matsuyama. The three had tied at 264 after 72 holes, 16-under-par, a stroke ahead of Harris English, the first, second and third round leader.
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 consists of players drawn primarily from the Official World Golf Ranking and the winners of the worldwide tournaments with the strongest fields.[2]
1. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 26, 2021.
- Abraham Ancer (2)
- Daniel Berger (2,3)
- Sam Burns (2,3)
- Patrick Cantlay (2,3)
- Paul Casey (2,3)
- Stewart Cink (2,3)
- Corey Conners (2)
- Bryson DeChambeau (2,3)
- Harris English (2,3)
- Tony Finau (2)
- Matt Fitzpatrick (2,3)
- Tommy Fleetwood (2)
- Brian Harman (2)
- Tyrrell Hatton (2,3)
- Garrick Higgo (2,3)
- Max Homa (2,3)
- Billy Horschel (2,3)
- Viktor Hovland (2,3)
- Im Sung-jae (2)
- Dustin Johnson (2,3)
- Kevin Kisner (2)
- Brooks Koepka (2,3)
- Jason Kokrak (2,3)
- Marc Leishman (2)
- Shane Lowry (2)
- Robert MacIntyre (2)
- Hideki Matsuyama (2,3)
- Rory McIlroy (2,3)
- Phil Mickelson (2,3)
- Collin Morikawa (2,3)
- Kevin Na (2,3)
- Joaquín Niemann (2)
- Louis Oosthuizen (2)
- Ryan Palmer (2)
- Victor Perez (2)
- Ian Poulter
- Patrick Reed (2,3)
- Justin Rose (2)
- Xander Schauffele (2,3)
- Scottie Scheffler (2)
- Adam Scott (2)
- Webb Simpson (2)
- Cameron Smith (2)
- Jordan Spieth (2,3)
- Justin Thomas (2,3)
- Lee Westwood (2)
- Matthew Wolff (2)
- Will Zalatoris (2)
- Jon Rahm (2,3) did not play.[3]
- Christiaan Bezuidenhout (2) did not play.[a]
2. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of August 2, 2021.
- Lucas Herbert (3)
3. 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.[b]
- Cameron Champ
- Cameron Davis
- Sergio García
- Lucas Glover
- Jim Herman
- Matt Jones
- Kim Si-woo
- Martin Laird
- Lee Kyoung-hoon
- Min Woo Lee
- Carlos Ortiz
- Aaron Rai
- Robert Streb
4. The winner of selected tournaments or leaders in tour Order of Merit
- Asian Tour: 2020–21 Order of Merit leader – Wade Ormsby[5]
- PGA Tour of Australasia: 2020–21 Order of Merit winner – Brad Kennedy[6]
- Japan Golf Tour: Bridgestone Open (2020) – Canceled
- Japan Golf Tour: Japan Golf Tour Championship (2021) – Ryosuke Kinoshita
- Sunshine Tour: Dimension Data Pro-Am (2021) – Wilco Nienaber
Round summaries
First round
Thursday, August 5, 2021
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Harris English | 62 | −8 |
| T2 | Jim Herman | 64 | −6 |
 Carlos Ortiz | |||
 Ian Poulter | |||
| Matthew Wolff | |||
| T6 | Bryson DeChambeau | 65 | −5 |
| Marc Leishman | |||
| Scottie Scheffler | |||
| T9 | Daniel Berger | 66 | −4 |
| Sam Burns | |||
| Max Homa | |||
| Will Zalatoris |
Second round
Friday, August 6, 2021
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harris English | 62-65=127 | −13 |
| T2 | Abraham Ancer | 67-62=129 | −11 |
 Cameron Smith | 67-62=129 | ||
| T4 | Sam Burns | 66-64=130 | −10 |
| Ian Poulter | 64-66=130 | ||
| Scottie Scheffler | 65-65=130 | ||
| T7 | Bryson DeChambeau | 65-66=131 | −9 |
 Louis Oosthuizen | 67-64=131 | ||
| T9 | Jim Herman | 64-68=132 | −8 |
| Will Zalatoris | 66-66=132 |
Third round
Saturday, August 7, 2021
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harris English | 62-65-65=192 | −18 |
| T2 | Bryson DeChambeau | 65-66-63=194 | −16 |
| Cameron Smith | 67-62-65=194 | ||
| 4 | Abraham Ancer | 67-62-67=196 | −14 |
| T5 | Ian Poulter | 64-66-67=197 | −13 |
| Scottie Scheffler | 65-65-67=197 | ||
| T7 | Paul Casey | 68-66-65=199 | −11 |
| Dustin Johnson | 69-65-65=199 | ||
| Louis Oosthuizen | 67-64-68=199 | ||
| Will Zalatoris | 66-66-67=199 |
Final round
Sunday, August 8, 2021
Final leaderboard
| Champion |
| (c) = past champion |
| Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | Abraham Ancer | 67-62-67-68=264 | −16 | Playoff |
| Sam Burns | 66-64-70-64=264 | |||
 Hideki Matsuyama (c) | 68-69-64-63=264 | |||
| 4 | Harris English | 62-65-65-73=265 | −15 | 515,000 |
| T5 | Daniel Berger | 66-67-67-66=266 | −14 | 380,667 |
| Paul Casey | 68-66-65-67=266 | |||
| Cameron Smith | 67-62-65-72=266 | |||
| T8 | Bryson DeChambeau | 65-66-63-74=268 | −12 | 272,500 |
| Will Zalatoris | 66-66-67-69=268 | |||
| T10 | Dustin Johnson (c) | 69-65-65-70=269 | −11 | 220,000 |
| Ian Poulter | 64-66-67-72=269 |
| Leaderboard below the top 10 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) | |
| T12 |  Rory McIlroy (c) | 72-66-66-66=270 | −10 | 186,500 | |
| Jordan Spieth | 71-69-63-67=270 | ||||
| 14 | Scottie Scheffler | 65-65-67-74=271 | −9 | 170,000 | |
| T15 |  Robert MacIntyre | 69-67-68-68=272 | −8 | 155,500 | |
| Webb Simpson | 71-65-72-64=272 | ||||
| T17 | Tyrrell Hatton | 67-68-65-73=273 | −7 | 128,000 | |
| Billy Horschel | 68-67-66-72=273 | ||||
| Phil Mickelson | 69-66-70-68=273 | ||||
 Joaquín Niemann | 70-68-68-67=273 | ||||
| Louis Oosthuizen | 67-64-68-74=273 | ||||
| Matthew Wolff | 64-70-72-67=273 | ||||
| T23 | Patrick Cantlay | 71-67-69-67=274 | −6 | 105,000 | |
 Shane Lowry (c) | 68-69-67-70=274 | ||||
| Kevin Na | 67-71-67-69=274 | ||||
| T26 |  Sergio García | 70-68-65-72=275 | −5 | 89,000 | |
| Collin Morikawa | 67-71-68-69=275 | ||||
| Ryan Palmer | 70-64-68-73=275 | ||||
| Aaron Rai | 70-67-71-67=275 | ||||
| Justin Thomas (c) | 67-67-69-72=275 | ||||
| T31 | Cameron Champ | 71-72-65-68=276 | −4 | 77,000 | |
| Patrick Reed | 68-69-69-70=276 | ||||
| Lee Westwood | 67-69-69-71=276 | ||||
| T34 | Tony Finau | 69-65-69-74=277 | −3 | 69,500 | |
| Jason Kokrak | 67-68-68-74=277 | ||||
| T36 |  Corey Conners | 67-69-69-73=278 | −2 | 59,000 | |
| Brian Harman | 70-69-69-70=278 | ||||
| Lucas Herbert | 69-70-70-69=278 | ||||
 Viktor Hovland | 73-65-69-71=278 | ||||
| Marc Leishman | 65-71-69-73=278 | ||||
| Carlos Ortiz | 64-69-73-72=278 | ||||
| Adam Scott (c) | 74-66-70-68=278 | ||||
| T43 | Stewart Cink (c) | 68-66-74-71=279 | −1 | 53,000 | |
| Brad Kennedy | 67-70-70-72=279 | ||||
| Ryosuke Kinoshita | 74-66-70-69=279 | ||||
| T46 | Tommy Fleetwood | 69-70-69-72=280 | E | 49,000 | |
| Jim Herman | 64-68-73-75=280 | ||||
 Im Sung-jae | 70-70-67-73=280 | ||||
| Xander Schauffele | 69-73-70-68=280 | ||||
| Robert Streb | 71-66-71-72=280 | ||||
| T51 | Max Homa | 66-68-74-73=281 | +1 | 45,000 | |
| Matt Jones | 69-68-74-70=281 | ||||
| Wade Ormsby | 69-71-68-73=281 | ||||
| T54 | Brooks Koepka (c) | 70-69-67-76=282 | +2 | 42,000 | |
| Lee Kyoung-hoon | 68-74-70-70=282 | ||||
| Justin Rose | 69-69-69-75=282 | ||||
| T57 | Matt Fitzpatrick | 70-72-67-74=283 | +3 | 39,167 | |
| Lucas Glover | 71-73-66-73=283 | ||||
| Martin Laird | 68-69-69-77=283 | ||||
| 60 | Cameron Davis | 68-72-73-72=285 | +5 | 38,000 | |
| 61 |  Victor Perez | 71-69-71-76=287 | +7 | 37,500 | |
| 62 | Min Woo Lee | 67-75-74-72=288 | +8 | 37,000 | |
| 63 | Kevin Kisner | 67-72-71-79=289 | +9 | 36,500 | |
| 64 | Wilco Nienaber | 76-72-72-70=290 | +10 | 36,000 | |
| 65 | Kim Si-woo | 70-70-75-78=293 | +13 | 35,500 | |
| WD | Garrick Higgo | 68-70-67=205 | −5 | ||
Source:[7]
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 |
| Ancer | −14 | −15 | −16 | −16 | −16 | −15 | −15 | −15 | −15 | −15 | −15 | −15 | −16 | −16 | −16 | −16 | −16 | −16 |
| Burns | −10 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −12 | −13 | −13 | −13 | −14 | −15 | −15 | −15 | −13 | −13 | −14 | −15 | −15 | −16 |
| Matsuyama | −9 | −9 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −11 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −13 | −14 | −15 | −15 | −16 | −16 | −16 |
| English | −17 | −17 | −18 | −18 | −18 | −19 | −19 | −20 | −20 | −20 | −18 | −18 | −18 | −16 | −16 | −15 | −15 | −15 |
| Berger | −10 | −11 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −13 | −13 | −13 | −14 | −14 | −13 | −12 | −12 | −13 | −14 |
| Casey | −12 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −13 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −12 | −13 | −13 | −14 | −14 | −14 |
| Smith | −16 | −17 | −17 | −17 | −17 | −17 | −18 | −17 | −16 | −16 | −15 | −16 | −16 | −17 | −16 | −16 | −16 | −14 |
| DeChambeau | −17 | −17 | −18 | −17 | −18 | −17 | −17 | −17 | −18 | −17 | −14 | −14 | −14 | −14 | −13 | −13 | −13 | −12 |
Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
| Birdie | Bogey | Double bogey | Triple bogey+ |
- Source:[7]
Playoff
| Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abraham Ancer | 4-3 | −1 | 1,820,000 |
| T2 | Sam Burns | 4-4 | E | 917,500 |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 4-4 |
Source:[7]
Notes
- ^ Bezuidenhout was ineligible to compete as he had already played in 12 tournaments on the 2020–21 PGA Tour, the maximum allowed for non-members who have not qualified for Special Temporary Membership on that tour.[4]
- ^ The "Strength of Field Rating" is a measure of the combined world ranking 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
- ^ "PGA Tour releases full 2021-22 schedule". PGA Tour. August 3, 2021. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
- ^ Bolton, Rob. "2020–21 Qualifiers for majors, The Players, WGCs". PGA Tour. Archived from the original on September 26, 2020. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
- ^ Lee, Josh (July 21, 2021). "Jon Rahm becomes latest big name to pull out of FedEx Cup event a week before Olympics". Daily Express. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
- ^ Bolton, Rob. "2020–21 Qualifiers for majors, The Players, WGCs". PGA Tour. Archived from the original on July 26, 2021. Retrieved July 27, 2021.
- ^ Bolton, Rob. "2020–21 Qualifiers for majors, The Players, WGCs". PGA Tour. Archived from the original on July 14, 2021. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
- ^ Bolton, Rob. "2020–21 Qualifiers for majors, The Players, WGCs". PGA Tour. Archived from the original on January 3, 2021. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
- ^ a b c "WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational". ESPN. August 8, 2021. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
External links
- Official website
- Coverage on European Tour's official site
- TPC Southwind
