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Tournaments / 2018-2019

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 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
+0.446
Top-20 hit rate
55%
Top-10 avg model rank
18.8

Grade is this event’s percentile (85th) 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
Rory McIlroy2nd4th
Justin Rose3rd11th
Webb Simpson4th2nd
Patrick Cantlay5th12th
Brooks Koepka6th1st
Justin Thomas7th12th
Tommy Fleetwood8th4th
Hideki Matsuyama9th43rd
Jon Rahm10th7th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Aaron Rai59th12th(−47)
Gary Woodland15th55th(+40)
Keegan Bradley25th61st(+36)
Hideki Matsuyama9th43rd(+34)
Shugo Imahira61st27th(−34)
Cameron Smith45th12th(−33)
Adam Long57th24th(−33)
Matt Kuchar11th43rd(+32)
Matt Fitzpatrick36th4th(−32)
Alex Noren43rd12th(−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.

This event in the model

OTIS ranks every field on how well each player's game matches the course, then prices their chances. Both are published in full and graded afterwards.

This week's modelProbabilities and the track recordHow 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 published final leaderboard for this event. Nothing is estimated or interpolated — where no value was published, 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.