The 2020 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational was the 22nd WGC Invitational held July 30 – August 2 at the TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee. Originally planned for July 2–5, it was rescheduled and played with no spectators in attendance due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

FedEx Cup leader Justin Thomas won his second WGC Invitational title, and returned to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking having last held that position in June 2018. Thomas became the third-youngest player to win 13 times on the PGA Tour since 1960, behind Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus.

Venue

Course layout TPC Southwind was designed by Ron Prichard, in consultation with tour pros Hubert Green and Fuzzy Zoeller. TPC Southwind opened in 1988, and is a member of the Tournament Players Club network operated by the PGA Tour.

Hole Yards Par Hole Yards Par 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 consists of players drawn primarily from the Official World Golf Ranking and the winners of the worldwide tournaments with the strongest fields. In order to ensure a field of 78 players, changes were made to the exemption criteria with the addition of players ranked outside the top-50 in the world rankings. The adjustment was due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

1. Playing members of the 2019 United States and International Presidents Cup teams. An Byeong-hun (2), Abraham Ancer (2,3,4), Patrick Cantlay (2,3,4), Bryson DeChambeau (2,3,4,5), Tony Finau (2,3,4), Rickie Fowler (2,3,4), Adam Hadwin, Im Sung-jae (2,3,4,5), Dustin Johnson (2,3,4,5), Matt Kuchar (2,3,4), Marc Leishman (2,3,4,5), Li Haotong, Hideki Matsuyama (2,3,4), Joaquín Niemann (5), Louis Oosthuizen (2,3,4), Pan Cheng-tsung, Patrick Reed (2,3,4,5), Xander Schauffele (2,3,4), Webb Simpson (2,3,4,5), Cameron Smith (2,3,4,5), Justin Thomas (2,3,4,5), Gary Woodland (2,3,4) Adam Scott (2,3,4,5,6) and Tiger Woods (2,3,4,5) did not play.

2. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of March 15, 2020 (rankings frozen for 13 weeks). Christiaan Bezuidenhout (3,4,6), Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Paul Casey (3,4,5), Matt Fitzpatrick (3,4), Tommy Fleetwood (3,4,5), Sergio García (3,4), Tyrrell Hatton (3,4,5), Billy Horschel (3,4), Jazz Janewattananond (3,4,6), Kevin Kisner (3,4), Brooks Koepka (3,4,5), Shane Lowry (3,4), Graeme McDowell (5), Rory McIlroy (3,4,5), Collin Morikawa (3,4,5), Kevin Na (3,4,5), Victor Perez (3,4,5), Jon Rahm (3,4,5), Chez Reavie (3,4), Scottie Scheffler, Brandt Snedeker, Henrik Stenson (3,4), Erik van Rooyen (3,4), Matt Wallace (3,4), Bernd Wiesberger (3,4,5), Danny Willett (3,4,5) Shugo Imahira (3,4,6), Francesco Molinari (3,4), Justin Rose (3,4), and Lee Westwood (3,4,5) did not play.

3. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 20, 2020. Daniel Berger (4,5), Jason Day (4), Viktor Hovland (4), Ryan Palmer (4), Kevin Streelman (4)

4. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 27, 2020.

5. 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. Cameron Champ, Tyler Duncan, Lucas Herbert, Matt Jones, Andrew Landry, J. T. Poston, Sebastian Söderberg, Nick Taylor, Michael Thompson, Brendon Todd

6. The winner of selected tournaments from each of the following tours Asian Tour: Indonesian Masters (2019) – Jazz Janewattananond, also qualified under categories 2, 3 and 4. PGA Tour of Australasia: Australian PGA Championship (2019) – Adam Scott, also qualified under categories 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Japan Golf Tour: Bridgestone Open (2019) – Shugo Imahira, also qualified under categories 2, 3 and 4. Japan Golf Tour: Japan Golf Tour Championship (2020) – Cancelled Sunshine Tour: Dimension Data Pro-Am (2020) – Christiaan Bezuidenhout, also qualified under categories 2, 3 and 4.

7. Alternates to fill field to 78 (if necessary) from the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 20, 2020 Ian Poulter (53) Matthew Wolff (55) Kang Sung-hoon (58) Bubba Watson (59) Jordan Spieth (60) Corey Conners (63) Jason Kokrak (66) Tom Lewis (67) Joel Dahmen (68) Shaun Norris (69) Phil Mickelson (70) Keegan Bradley (72) Thomas Pieters (73) – Did not play Max Homa (74) Mackenzie Hughes (75) Robert MacIntyre (76)

Round summaries First round Thursday, July 30, 2020

With only one top-10 finish since August 2019, defending champion Brooks Koepka tied his career-best score with a 62 to take the first-round lead. Koepka has a reputation of peaking during major season, and the first major of the season is due to be held the following week.

PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Brooks Koepka 62 −8T2 Rickie Fowler 64 −6 Brendon Todd4 Kang Sung-hoon 65 −5T5 Max Homa 66 −4 Matt Kuchar Chez Reavie Justin ThomasT9 Abraham Ancer 67 −3 Bryson DeChambeau Sergio García Viktor Hovland Im Sung-jae Phil Mickelson

Second round Friday, July 31, 2020

Brendon Todd took a 36-hole lead attempting to gain his third victory this PGA Tour season, two strokes ahead of Rickie Fowler who was also aiming for his first World Golf Championship win.

PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Brendon Todd 64-65=129 −112 Rickie Fowler 64-67=131 −9T3 An Byeong-hun 68-65=133 −7 Brooks Koepka 62-71=133 Chez Reavie 66-67=133T6 Matt Fitzpatrick 70-64=134 −6 Kang Sung-hoon 65-69=134T8 Jason Day 68-67=135 −5 Im Sung-jae 67-68=135 Louis Oosthuizen 68-67=135 Webb Simpson 69-66=135

Third round Saturday, August 1, 2020

Brendon Todd maintained his 36-hole lead. Tom Lewis tied the tournament and course record with a 9-under 61 to move 47 spots up the leaderboard.

PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Brendon Todd 64-65-69=198 −122 An Byeong-hun 68-65-66=199 −113 Rickie Fowler 64-67-69=200 −104 Brooks Koepka 62-71-68=201 −95 Justin Thomas 66-70-66=202 −8T6 Matt Fitzpatrick 70-64-69=203 −7 Phil Mickelson 67-70-66=203 Louis Oosthuizen 68-67-68=203 Chez Reavie 66-67-70=203T10 Christiaan Bezuidenhout 71-69-64=204 −6 Joel Dahmen 72-67-65=204 Jason Day 68-67-69=204 Im Sung-jae 67-68-69=204 Tom Lewis 73-70-61=204 Shane Lowry 68-69-67=204 Webb Simpson 69-66-69=204

Final round Sunday, August 2, 2020

Final leaderboard Champion(c) = past champion

PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)1 Justin Thomas (c) 66-70-66-65=267 −13 1,745,000T2 Daniel Berger 71-67-67-65=270 −10 695,000 Brooks Koepka (c) 62-71-68-69=270 Tom Lewis 73-70-61-66=270 Phil Mickelson 67-70-66-67=270T6 Jason Day 68-67-69-67=271 −9 268,333 Matt Fitzpatrick 70-64-69-68=271 Shane Lowry (c) 68-69-67-67=271 Louis Oosthuizen 68-67-68-68=271 Chez Reavie 66-67-70-68=271 Xander Schauffele 68-70-67-66=271 Leaderboard below the top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)T12 An Byeong-hun 68-65-66-73=272 −8 166,667 Dustin Johnson (c) 69-68-68-67=272 Webb Simpson 69-66-69-68=272T15 Abraham Ancer 67-75-65-66=273 −7 131,400 Rickie Fowler 64-67-69-73=273 Ryan Palmer 69-69-71-64=273 Scottie Scheffler 69-67-69-68=273 Brendon Todd 64-65-69-75=273T20 Christiaan Bezuidenhout 71-69-64-70=274 −6 106,200 Joel Dahmen 72-67-65-70=274 Hideki Matsuyama (c) 68-71-67-68=274 Collin Morikawa 70-71-67-66=274 Erik van Rooyen 71-70-68-65=274T25 Cameron Champ 71-68-67-69=275 −5 87,200 Billy Horschel 70-70-68-67=275 Kevin Kisner 70-68-72-65=275 Matt Kuchar 66-72-71-66=275 Bubba Watson 68-70-71-66=275T30 Corey Conners 72-68-66-70=276 −4 72,000 Bryson DeChambeau 67-73-69-67=276 Andrew Landry 70-72-66-68=276 J. T. Poston 70-68-70-68=276 Jordan Spieth 68-69-68-71=276T35 Patrick Cantlay 73-72-65-67=277 −3 56,111 Tommy Fleetwood 72-67-73-65=277 Sergio García 67-71-68-71=277 Im Sung-jae 67-68-69-73=277 Graeme McDowell 68-70-70-69=277 Kevin Na 72-64-74-67=277 Henrik Stenson 69-69-70-69=277 Kevin Streelman 71-66-71-69=277 Nick Taylor 69-70-67-71=277T44 Mackenzie Hughes 68-71-70-69=278 −2 49,000 Kang Sung-hoon 65-69-72-72=278 Jason Kokrak 69-68-71-70=278T47 Rory McIlroy (c) 73-66-73-67=279 −1 46,500 Patrick Reed 71-69-69-70=279T49 Tyler Duncan 74-70-66-70=280 E 44,000 Lucas Herbert 71-73-69-67=280 Matthew Wolff 69-74-65-72=280T52 Keegan Bradley 68-70-70-73=281 +1 40,000 Max Homa 66-73-72-70=281 Marc Leishman 70-69-69-73=281 Joaquín Niemann 73-73-68-67=281 Jon Rahm 70-74-71-66=281T57 Michael Thompson 70-74-69-69=282 +2 37,250 Gary Woodland 71-69-73-69=282T59 Viktor Hovland 67-75-72-69=283 +3 35,250 Jazz Janewattananond 75-71-68-69=283 Matt Jones 71-72-69-71=283 Robert MacIntyre 71-73-69-70=283 Cameron Smith 72-72-71-68=283 Matt Wallace 72-71-73-67=283T65 Tony Finau 70-68-72-74=284 +4 33,250 Victor Perez 73-71-70-70=284T67 Paul Casey 71-78-69-67=285 +5 32,625 Brandt Snedeker 73-71-72-69=285T69 Tyrrell Hatton 72-69-73-73=287 +7 32,000 Ian Poulter 73-69-72-73=287 Danny Willett 69-70-74-74=287T72 Adam Hadwin 73-71-75-69=288 +8 31,375 Pan Cheng-tsung 72-74-70-72=288 74 Bernd Wiesberger 71-73-75-70=289 +9 31,000 T75 Li Haotong 68-73-74-75=290 +10 30,625 Shaun Norris 73-76-72-69=29077 Sebastian Söderberg 72-71-75-73=291 +11 30,250 78 Rafa Cabrera-Bello 73-74-76-72=295 +15 30,000

Notes

References

External links

TPC Southwind Media Guide