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Tournaments / 2020-2021

World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational

2021-08-05 · TPC Southwind

Winner
Abraham Ancer
Winning score
-16
Field
66
Field strength
+0.752 SG

The 2020-2021 World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational was played at TPC Southwind, starting 5 August 2021. Abraham Ancer won at 16 under par (264). The winning card was 67, 62, 67 and 68, and the win paid $1,820,000. Hideki Matsuyama and Sam Burns tied for second. 66 players started the event. The field averaged +0.752 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 85% 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 66. 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 65 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Agrade
Rank correlation
+0.504
Top-20 hit rate
60%
Top-10 avg model rank
18.7

Grade is this event’s percentile (94th) 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
Collin Morikawa1st26th
Xander Schauffele2nd46th
Daniel Berger3rd5th
Justin Thomas4th26th
Louis Oosthuizen5th17th
Rory McIlroy6th12th
Webb Simpson7th15th
Abraham Ancer8th1st
Dustin Johnson9th10th
Viktor Hovland10th36th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Xander Schauffele2nd46th(+44)
Brooks Koepka15th54th(+39)
Matt Fitzpatrick19th57th(+38)
Robert MacIntyre53rd15th(−38)
Phil Mickelson54th17th(−37)
Sam Burns38th2nd(−36)
Matthew Wolff51st17th(−34)
Viktor Hovland10th36th(+26)
Kevin Kisner37th63rd(+26)
Cameron Champ57th31st(−26)

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 2020-2021?

Abraham Ancer won the 2020-2021 World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational at TPC Southwind, finishing 16 under par.

Where was the 2020-2021 World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational played?

The 2020-2021 World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational was played at TPC Southwind, starting 5 August 2021.

What was the winning score at the 2020-2021 World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational?

The winning score was 16 under par (264 strokes), posted by Abraham Ancer.

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

66 players started the 2020-2021 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.