2022 FedEx St. Jude Championship Picks, Predictions & Best Bets
Last week's Wyndham Championship lived up to the hype – providing plenty of weekend drama with ten players bunched in contention for the final round after they finished the rain delayed third round early Sunday morning.
Sungjae Im was the live favorite heading into the afternoon round but the drama was short-lived. Joohyung “Tom” Kim shot an unbelievable eight-under 27 on the front nine on his way to steamrolling the field and running away with his first career victory at the ripe age of 20.
He became the second youngest player to win a PGA Tour event just behind Jordan Spieth who was 19 when he won the John Deere Classic in 2013.
Kim put on an absolute putting masterclass on Sunday – making 112 feet of putts on the front nine alone. He became the first player in history to start a tournament with a quadruple bogey to then go on to win.
It was an anticlimactic Sunday for those on these pages who had a Sunjae Im outright ticket in their pocket, but we got the consulation prize of cashing the best bet of the week with Sungjae Im finishing top 10 +200 along with Russell Henley top 10 and top 20 to secure our 15th profitable tournament of the season.
This week's track is at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee.
It is a par-70 that measures in at 7,244 yards.
It is a Ron Prichard design and similar to last week at Sedgefield Cou ntry Club, the fairways are narrow and there is a significant penalty for missing them as playing out of Bermuda rough is significantly more difficult than other grass types.
There are only two par 5's so the long bombers won't be at much of an advantage. Driving accuracy off the tee will be far more predictive of success than driving distance so good drives gained will be a primary key metric we are focussing on this week.
The winning score here is usually in the low-teen range. Abraham Ancer won last year with a score of 16-under, while Justin Thomas won in 2020 at 13-under and Brooks Koepka won in 2019 at 16-under as well.'
It probably won't be a complete birdie fest like the last three weeks, but the winner is definitely going to have to string together his fair share of birdies while mitigating any crooked numbers.'