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FedEx St. Jude Classic

2017-06-08 · TPC Southwind

Winner
Daniel Berger
Winning score
-10
Field
152
Field strength
-0.083 SG

The 2016-2017 FedEx St. Jude Classic was played at TPC Southwind, starting 8 June 2017. Daniel Berger won at 10 under par (270), 1 stroke ahead of Charl Schwartzel. The winning card was 70, 68, 66 and 66, and the win paid $1,152,000. Charl Schwartzel and Whee Kim tied for second. 152 players started the event. The field averaged -0.083 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 78% of the players. The full leaderboard below lists every player's finish position, round scores and total to par. Every figure on this page comes from the PGA Tour's published final leaderboard for the event — nothing here is estimated or modelled.

Final leaderboard

Top 20 of 152. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.

Model score

Backtest · reconstructed

Our course-fit model re-run as it would have seen this week — using only data that existed before the first tee shot — then compared with how the 85 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Dgrade
Rank correlation
+0.234
Top-20 hit rate
45%
Top-10 avg model rank
22.0

Grade is this event’s percentile (34th) against every other event we have scored — not an absolute pass mark. Rank correlation runs −1 to +1, where 0 is a coin flip and a full-field golf model landing near +0.35 is a genuine read.

Who the model liked

Its top 10, and where they finished.

PlayerModelFinish
Phil Mickelson1st9th
Brooks Koepka2nd37th
Daniel Berger3rd1st
Adam Scott4th10th
Kevin Chappell5th4th
J.B. Holmes6th52nd
Russell Knox7th37th
Francesco Molinari8th24th
Ian Poulter9th31st
Ryan Palmer10th80th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Braden Thornberry75th4th(71)
Ryan Palmer10th80th(+70)
Dominic Bozzelli78th10th(68)
Trey Mullinax79th18th(61)
Chris Kirk15th72nd(+57)
Joel Dahmen74th18th(56)
John Peterson29th82nd(+53)
Julián Etulain76th24th(52)
John Huh16th67th(+51)
Rafa Cabrera Bello55th4th(51)

One known caveat. Player stats, form and course history are all restricted to what existed before this event. The course archetype is not — it is derived from the venue’s full history, including this edition. That flatters the model slightly and equally at every venue. How the model works.

The venue

This event was played at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the FedEx St. Jude Classic in 2016-2017?

Daniel Berger won the 2016-2017 FedEx St. Jude Classic at TPC Southwind, finishing 10 under par.

Where was the 2016-2017 FedEx St. Jude Classic played?

The 2016-2017 FedEx St. Jude Classic was played at TPC Southwind, starting 8 June 2017.

What was the winning score at the 2016-2017 FedEx St. Jude Classic?

The winning score was 10 under par (270 strokes), posted by Daniel Berger.

How many players were in the FedEx St. Jude Classic field?

152 players started the 2016-2017 FedEx St. Jude Classic. Every one of them appears on the leaderboard below.

Where these numbers come from

Finishes, round scores and to-par figures are the PGA Tour's own published final leaderboard for this event. Nothing is estimated or interpolated — where the tour published no value, this page shows a gap rather than a guess. Full sourcing notes are on the methodology page, and every stat name is defined in the glossary.