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FedEx St. Jude Classic

2018-06-07 · TPC Southwind

Winner
Dustin Johnson
Winning score
-19
Field
151
Field strength
-0.045 SG

The 2017-2018 FedEx St. Jude Classic was played at TPC Southwind, starting 7 June 2018. Dustin Johnson won at 19 under par (261), 6 strokes ahead of Andrew Putnam. The winning card was 67, 63, 65 and 66, and the win paid $1,188,000. Andrew Putnam finished second, and J.B. Holmes was third. 151 players started the event. The field averaged -0.045 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 76% 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 151. 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 69 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Bgrade
Rank correlation
+0.442
Top-20 hit rate
55%
Top-10 avg model rank
19.7

Grade is this event’s percentile (89th) 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
Henrik Stenson1st26th
Dustin Johnson2nd1st
Phil Mickelson3rd12th
Chez Reavie4th6th
Brooks Koepka5th30th
Steve Stricker6th18th
Charl Schwartzel7th72nd
Brandt Snedeker8th6th
Charles Howell III9th26th
Shane Lowry10th30th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Charl Schwartzel7th72nd(+65)
Luke List11th56th(+45)
Grayson Murray30th70th(+40)
Denny McCarthy57th18th(39)
Richy Werenski40th4th(36)
Austin Cook41st6th(35)
Stuart Appleby46th12th(34)
Cody Gribble63rd30th(33)
Ryan Blaum50th18th(32)
Billy Horschel20th51st(+31)

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 2017-2018?

Dustin Johnson won the 2017-2018 FedEx St. Jude Classic at TPC Southwind, finishing 19 under par.

Where was the 2017-2018 FedEx St. Jude Classic played?

The 2017-2018 FedEx St. Jude Classic was played at TPC Southwind, starting 7 June 2018.

What was the winning score at the 2017-2018 FedEx St. Jude Classic?

The winning score was 19 under par (261 strokes), posted by Dustin Johnson.

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

151 players started the 2017-2018 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.