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The FedEx St. Jude Championship, founded as the Westchester Classic in 1967, is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour. The Championship has a partnership with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital , with the hospital serving as the tournament's designated charity since 1970. [ 1 ]
In 2018 — when it was a regular-season tournament and it was known as the FedEx St. Jude Classic — Dustin Johnson earned $1.188 million as the winner. The total purse was just $6.6 million.
The Stanford Financial Group took over as the tournament's title sponsor in 2007, and it was renamed Stanford St. Jude Championship. In 2009 , the tournament changed its name to St. Jude Classic , [ 18 ] following accusations that the Stanford Financial Group was a Ponzi scheme .
The FedEx St. Jude Championship was played August 15–18. 70 players were eligible to play in the event. There was no second-round cut. Hideki Matsuyama won by two strokes over Viktor Hovland and Xander Schauffele. World Number one and FedEx Cup points leader Scottie Scheffler finished in fourth.
Here are the winners and losers of the third round of the FedEx St. Jude Championship, including Hideki Matsuyama . . . and a golf club.
Hideki Matsuyama weathered a flirtation with utter disaster Sunday to hang on to win the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind. It is Matsuyama's 10th career victory and his first FedEx Cup ...
The top 70 players in the points standings advanced to the BMW Championship. This included four players who were outside the top 70 prior to The FedEx St. Jude Championship: Lucas Glover (ranked 121st to 34th), Adam Scott (77 to 45), Andrew Putnam (87 to 47), and Wyndham Clark (79 to 70).
The FedEx St. Jude Championship is set to begin Thursday at TPC Southwind. There has been a PGA Tour event in Memphis since 1958.