FedEx St. Jude Purse – The top 70 golfers in the FedExCup standings will travel to Tennessee for the FedEx St. Jude Championship for the opening playoff event of the PGA Tour’s season-long points competition. Nestled in the rolling countryside just southeast of Memphis sits TPC Southwind, which is hosting a playoff event for the third consecutive year.
Continuing with last year’s newly devised playoff structure, only the top 50 in the FedExCup standings after this week will advance to the BMW Championship. With such a small field, this will be the second consecutive year that the opening event of the playoffs will not have a cut. Since this course has hosted a PGA Tour event every year since 1989, we have plenty of course history and data to rely on this week.
With $20 million in prize money on the line, there is plenty of motivation for the top players to not treat this week as a warm-up for the following two p🔯layoff events. Players outside of the top 50 can boost their place in the standings with a good performance this week as points are quadrupled for these first two playoff events, with the winner earning 2,000 points and 70th place earning only 12 points.
As for the 70 players that comprise this field, every eligible player will be in attendance, including each of the top eight ranked players in the world, Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Rory McIlroy, Ludvig Aberg, Wyndham Clark, Collin Morikawa, Viktor Hovland and Patrick Cantlay. The biggest names staying home who finished outside the top 70 include Keith Mitchell, Rickie Fowler, Nicolai Hojgaard, and last year’s winner here, Lucas Glover.
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FedEx St. Jude Purse
Payout Breakdown
Here are the total payouts for this week’s FedEx St. Jude:
| Position | Prize Money |
|---|---|
| 1st | $3,600,000 |
| 2nd | $2,160,000 |
| 3rd | $1,360,000 |
| 4th | $960,000 |
| 5th | $800,000 |
| 6th | $720,000 |
| 7th | $670,000 |
| 8th | $620,000 |
| 9th | $580,000 |
| 10th | $540,000 |
| 11th | $500,000 |
| 12th | $460,000 |
| 13th | $420,000 |
| 14th | $380,000 |
| 15th | $360,000 |
| 16th | $340,000 |
| 17th | $320,000 |
| 18th | $300,000 |
| 19th | $280,000 |
| 20th | $260,000 |
| 21st | $240,000 |
| 22nd | $224,000 |
| 23rd | $208,000 |
| 24th | $192,000 |
| 25th | $176,000 |
| 26th | $160,000 |
| 27th | $154,000 |
| 28th | $148,000 |
| 29th | $142,000 |
| 30th | $136,000 |
| 31st | $130,000 |
| 32nd | $124,000 |
| 33rd | $118,000 |
| 34th | $113,000 |
| 35th | $108,000 |
| 36th | $103,000 |
| 37th | $98,000 |
| 38th | $94,000 |
| 39th | $90,000 |
| 40th | $86,000 |
| 41st | $82,000 |
| 42nd | $78,000 |
| 43rd | $74,000 |
| 44th | $70,000 |
| 45th | $66,000 |
| 46th | $62,000 |
| 47th | $58,000 |
| 48th | $54,800 |
| 49th | $52,000 |
| 50th | $50,400 |
| 51st | $49,200 |
| 52nd | $48,000 |
| 53rd | $47,200 |
| 54th | $46,400 |
| 55th | $46,000 |
| 56th | $45,200 |
| 57th | $44,800 |
| 58th | $44,400 |
| 59th | $44,400 |
| 60th | $44,000 |
| 61st | $43,600 |
| 62nd | $43,200 |
| 63rd | $42,800 |
| 64th | $42,400 |
| 65th | $42,000 |
| 66th | $41,600 |
| 67th | $41,200 |
| 68th | $40,800 |
| 69th | $41,400 |
| 70th | $40,000 |
TPC Southwind – Course History
Designed with golf tournaments in mind, TPC Southwind was built in 1988 and designed by Ron Prichard in consultation with Tour professionals Fuzzy Zoeller and Hubert Green. Prichard is well-known in golf architecture circles as the “father of restoration,” especially with certain Donald Ross-designed courses. Although not a restoration, it is one of the more challenging “TPC” courses played on Tour.
TPC Southwind underwent its first renovation in 2004 to modernize the course and make it more challenging. The renovations included adding 11 new tee boxes, 125 trees, and 15 new bunkers. Three of the water hazards were also enlarged. Moꦦre changes occurred in 2020, focusing on adding, resiz🦄ing, and re-edging numerous bunkers. Additionally, a few holes, such as the 3rd and the 7th, were extended by fifteen-plus yards.
In 1989, the course began hosting the Federal Express St. Jude Classic just one year after it was built and continued to do so through 2018. From 2019 to 2021, the course hosted the World Golf Championship (WGC) FedEx St. Jude Invitational. In 2022, TPC Southwind hosted the first round of the FedExCup Playoffs for the first ♎time.
