2019 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational
World number one, Brooks Koepka, completed a three-stroke victory over Webb Simpson to win his first World Golf Championship event. Koepka had begun the final day one shot behind Rory McIlroy, who led the field. With the win, Koepka earned more PGA Tour regular season FedEx Cup points than any other player and won first-place prize of $2 million in the Wyndham Rewards Top 10.
Venue
Course layout
TPC Southwind was designed by Ron Prichard, in consultation with tour pros Hubert Green and Fuzzy Zoeller. TPC Southwind opened thirty-six years ago in 1988, and is a member of the Tournament Players Club network operated by the PGA Tour.
Hole | Yards | Par | Hole | Yards | Par | |
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1 | 434 | 4 | 10 | 465 | 4 | |
2 | 401 | 4 | 11 | 162 | 3 | |
3 | 554 | 5 | 12 | 406 | 4 | |
4 | 196 | 3 | 13 | 472 | 4 | |
5 | 485 | 4 | 14 | 239 | 3 | |
6 | 445 | 4 | 15 | 395 | 4 | |
7 | 482 | 4 | 16 | 530 | 5 | |
8 | 178 | 3 | 17 | 490 | 4 | |
9 | 457 | 4 | 18 | 453 | 4 | |
Out | 3,632 | 35 | In | 3,612 | 35 | |
Source: | Total | 7,244 | 70 |
Field
The field consisted of players drawn primarily from the Official World Golf Ranking and the winners of the worldwide tournaments with the strongest fields.
- 1. Playing members of the 2018 United States and European Ryder Cup teams.
Paul Casey (2,3,4), Bryson DeChambeau (2,3,4), Tony Finau (2,3), Tommy Fleetwood (2,3), Sergio García (2,3), Tyrrell Hatton (2,3), Dustin Johnson (2,3,4), Brooks Koepka (2,3,4), Rory McIlroy (2,3,4), Phil Mickelson (2,3,4), Alex Norén (2,3), Thorbjørn Olesen, Ian Poulter (2,3), Jon Rahm (2,3,4), Patrick Reed (2,3), Justin Rose (2,3,4), Webb Simpson (2,3), Jordan Spieth (2,3), Henrik Stenson (2,3), Justin Thomas (2,3,4), Bubba Watson (2,3)
- Rickie Fowler (2,3,4), Francesco Molinari (2,3,4), and Tiger Woods (2,3,4) did not play.
- 2. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 15, 2019.
Keegan Bradley (3,4), Rafa Cabrera-Bello (3), Patrick Cantlay (3,4), Jason Day (3), Matt Fitzpatrick (3), Jim Furyk (3), Justin Harding, Billy Horschel (3), Kevin Kisner (3,4), Matt Kuchar (3,4), Marc Leishman (3,4), Li Haotong (3), Hideki Matsuyama (3), Kevin Na (3,4), Louis Oosthuizen (3), Pan Cheng-tsung (3,4), Eddie Pepperell (3,4), Andrew Putnam (3), Chez Reavie (3,4), Xander Schauffele (3,4), Adam Scott (3), Cameron Smith (3,5), Brandt Snedeker (3,4), Matt Wallace (3), Gary Woodland (3,4)
- Shane Lowry (3,4) and Bernd Wiesberger (3,4) did not play.
- 3. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 22, 2019.
- 4. Tournament winners, whose victories are considered official, of tournaments from the Federation Tours since the prior season's WGC Invitational with an Official World Golf Ranking Strength of Field Rating of 115 points or more.
Corey Conners, J. B. Holmes, Max Homa, Kodai Ichihara, Kang Sung-hoon, Nate Lashley, Adam Long, Keith Mitchell, Aaron Rai, Kevin Tway, Danny Willett, Matthew Wolff
- Lee Westwood did not play.
- 5. The winner of selected tournaments from each of the following tours
- Asian Tour: Indonesian Masters (2018) – Poom Saksansin
- PGA Tour of Australasia: Australian PGA Championship (2018) – Cameron Smith, also qualified under categories 2 and 3
- Japan Golf Tour: Bridgestone Open (2018) – Shugo Imahira
- Japan Golf Tour: Japan Golf Tour Championship (2019) – Mikumu Horikawa
- Sunshine Tour: Dimension Data Pro-Am (2019) – Philip Eriksson
Round summaries
First round
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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1 | ![]() |
62 | −8 |
T2 | ![]() |
65 | −5 |
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T7 | ![]() |
66 | −4 |
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Second round
Friday, July 26, 2019
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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1 | ![]() |
67-64=131 | −9 |
T2 | ![]() |
65-68=133 | −7 |
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62-71=133 | ||
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6 | ![]() |
65-69=134 | −6 |
T7 | ![]() |
68-67=135 | −5 |
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Third round
Saturday, July 27, 2019
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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1 | ![]() |
69-67-62=198 | −12 |
2 | ![]() |
68-67-64=199 | −11 |
3 | ![]() |
67-64-69=200 | −10 |
T4 | ![]() |
69-69-63=201 | −9 |
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62-71-68=201 | ||
T7 | ![]() |
67-66-69=202 | −8 |
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66-71-65=202 | ||
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T10 | ![]() |
68-70-65=203 | −7 |
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Final round
Sunday, July 28, 2019
Final leaderboard
Champion |
(c) = past champion |
Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) |
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1 | ![]() |
68-67-64-65=264 | −16 | 1,745,000 |
2 | ![]() |
69-66-68-64=267 | −13 | 1,095,000 |
3 | ![]() |
69-69-63-67=268 | −12 | 602,000 |
T4 | ![]() |
67-64-69-69=269 | −11 | 384,333 |
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7 | ![]() |
62-71-68-69=270 | −10 | 273,000 |
8 | ![]() |
66-69-67-69=271 | −9 | 242,000 |
T9 | ![]() |
67-66-69-70=272 | −8 | 205,000 |
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Leaderboard below the top 10 | |||||
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Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) | |
11 | ![]() |
67-68-70-68=273 | −7 | 183,000 | |
T12 | ![]() |
70-71-67-66=274 | −6 | 143,625 | |
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T20 | ![]() |
69-69-69-68=275 | −5 | 113,500 | |
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T24 | ![]() |
71-70-67-68=276 | −4 | 103,000 | |
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T27 | ![]() |
70-71-69-67=277 | −3 | 86,250 | |
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39 | ![]() |
73-70-71-64=278 | −2 | 76,000 | |
T40 | ![]() |
72-69-68-70=279 | −1 | 74,000 | |
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T43 | ![]() |
72-70-64-74=280 | E | 70,000 | |
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T48 | ![]() |
67-74-72-68=281 | +1 | 66,000 | |
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T51 | ![]() |
69-74-72-69=284 | +4 | 63,000 | |
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70-74-66-74=284 | ||||
54 | ![]() |
76-71-68-70=285 | +5 | 61,000 | |
T55 | ![]() |
71-70-75-70=286 | +6 | 59,500 | |
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73-71-70-72=286 | ||||
57 | ![]() |
68-73-73-74=288 | +8 | 58,000 | |
T58 | ![]() |
75-77-66-72=290 | +10 | 56,500 | |
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60 | ![]() |
69-75-73-74=291 | +11 | 55,000 | |
T61 | ![]() |
74-78-65-75=292 | +12 | 53,500 | |
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63 | ![]() |
76-77-74-70=297 | +17 | 52,000 |
Scorecard
Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Eagle | Birdie | Bogey |
References
- ^ "Brooks Koepka sees off Rory McIlroy to win his first WGC title by three shots". The Guardian. July 28, 2019. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
- ^ "2018 Qualifiers for majors, The Players, WGCs". PGA Tour. Retrieved October 8, 2017.
- ^ The 'Strength of Field Rating' is a loose term for what the Official World Golf Ranking calls the 'Total Rating Value' (see Event ranking).