The Tour takes a ride to Memphis for the 59th St. Jude Classic:
The St. Jude Classic become at the beginning set at the well-known Colonial Country Club in Memphis that is now the website of many huge Tennessee occasions and US Open qualifiers. Colonial CC changed into additionally in which Al Geiberger shot the primary 59 on Tour.
It?S a piece thrilling that once I grew up in the game Geiberger became normally considered to have one of the greatest golf swings of all time. But as we reached the net age that seemingly has been replaced by means of Hogan, Snead and Mac O?Grady at the same time as Geiberger?S swing is frequently forgotten.
Anyway, the Tour moved the St. Jude Classic to Cordova and then moved the event to TPC Southwind in 1989 which become designed by way of Ron Prichard with Hubert Green and Fuzzy Zoeller consulting at the venture.
I typically don?T realize lots approximately TPC Southwind due to the fact most of the Tour players I?Ve treated do now not consistently play right here because of the USA Open being the subsequent week. And with The Memorial the week earlier than being this type of massive purse plenty of gamers don?T need to visit Memorial, then placed up with every week of sectional qualifying for the USA Open, gambling Southwind after which touring to the United States Open. However, now is a great time for plenty Tour players due to the fact between Memphis and Hartford (the week after the US Open), they could take benefit of weaker fields.
In standard, the match and route seem like well obtained. The course is commonly in top notch situation, the format isn?T too funky and doesn?T have too much of a bias in the direction of one particular style of player. And it facilitates make a contribution to the exquisite motive of the St. Jude?S Children?S Hospital:
From a statistical point of view, TPC Southwind is akin to Muirfield Village within the sense it?S very a great deal an technique shot and quick game across the inexperienced direction. Unlike Muirfield Village, TPC Southwind has a low hit fairway percent, however the potential for an extended/inaccurate driver or a short/accurate motive force to gain strokes off the tee is restrained in comparison to advanced method shot play and the capability to easy up any mistakes.
The cool part of TPC Southwind is that the 17th and 18th holes are the last 2 ?Important holes? On the path.
Here?S a pleasing Google Earth assessment of the format of the direction:
https://nebraskapga.Bluegolf.Com/bluegolf/nebraskapga11/course/tpcsouthwind/aerial.Htm#
PROJECTED WINNING SCORE: -13
3JACK?S FAVORITES
Rickie Fowler 750
Adam Scott 1,two hundred
Phil Mickelson 1,600
Francesco Molinari 1,800
Kyle Stanley 2,500
Daniel Berger 2,500
3JACK?S DARK HORSE PICKS
Chad Campbell 10,000
J.P. Poston 10,000
D.A. Points 17,500
Tim Wilkinson 25,000
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