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World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational

2019-07-25 · TPC Southwind

Winner
Brooks Koepka
Winning score
-16
Field
62
Field strength
+0.764 SG

The 2018-2019 World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational was played at TPC Southwind, starting 25 July 2019. Brooks Koepka won at 16 under par (264), 3 strokes ahead of Webb Simpson. The winning card was 68, 67, 64 and 65, and the win paid $1,745,000. Webb Simpson finished second, and Marc Leishman was third. 62 players started the event. The field averaged +0.764 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 81% 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 62. 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 62 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Bgrade
Rank correlation
+0.430
Top-20 hit rate
55%
Top-10 avg model rank
21.4

Grade is this event’s percentile (88th) 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
Dustin Johnson1st20th
Justin Rose2nd11th
Webb Simpson3rd2nd
Justin Thomas4th12th
Rory McIlroy5th4th
Tommy Fleetwood6th4th
Brooks Koepka7th1st
Patrick Cantlay8th12th
Hideki Matsuyama9th43rd
Jordan Spieth10th12th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Aaron Rai57th12th(45)
Gary Woodland17th55th(+38)
Matt Fitzpatrick41st4th(37)
Hideki Matsuyama9th43rd(+34)
Keegan Bradley28th61st(+33)
Matt Kuchar11th43rd(+32)
Shugo Imahira59th27th(32)
Bubba Watson40th9th(31)
Cameron Smith43rd12th(31)
Haotong Li51st20th(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 World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational in 2018-2019?

Brooks Koepka won the 2018-2019 World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational at TPC Southwind, finishing 16 under par.

Where was the 2018-2019 World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational played?

The 2018-2019 World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational was played at TPC Southwind, starting 25 July 2019.

What was the winning score at the 2018-2019 World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational?

The winning score was 16 under par (264 strokes), posted by Brooks Koepka.

How many players were in the World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational field?

62 players started the 2018-2019 World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational. 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.