The PGA Tour season reaches the business end this week with the first of 3 FedEx Cup playoff events, the FedEx St. Jude Championship, which takes place at TPC Southwind for the third consecutive season. TPC Southwind has staged a PGA Tour event since 1989 and, after the St Jude Invitational was removed from the schedule, this venue became the opening stop of the FedEx Cup playoffs in 2022, takin g over as permanent home of the previously nomadic Northern Trust. The top 70 eligible players on the FedEx Cup list are set to tee it up this week before the field is cut to 50 for next week’s BMW Championship. The top 30 after the BMW will then head to East Lake to fight it out for the £25 million first prize at the Tour Championship.
After adding Olympic gold to his rapidly growing title collection, Scottie Scheffler once again tops the betting market and he's hard to oppose again at a tough course where a top-class tee-to-green game tends to be essential. However, 6 previous visits to Southwind have yielded no better than 14th place so Scheffler'is perhaps not quite at his most comfortable in Memphis.'
FedEx St. Jude Championship golf picks and predictions
With big bucks on the line, this tends to be the time of the season when Patrick Cantlay turns it on, as he demonstrated when just missing out in a playoff by Lucas Glover a year ago. Cantlay has won 3 of the last 9 FedEx Cup playoff events, finishing in the top 10 on 6 occasions, and he looks to be inching back to form, finishing 3rd at the US Open and 5th at the Travelers Championship before a respectable 25th-placed finish at the British Open.