2020 WGC FedEx St. Jude Invitational Fantasy Picks

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This week marks the first World Golf Championship event, The FedEx St. Jude Invitational at the TPC Southwind course in Tennessee. This is also the first no cut event of the year which adds a little bit of extra strategy when picking your DFS lineups this week. You can be a little more risky with your fantasy picks and lean to boom or bust guys instead of a safer lineup with consistent players.

The field includes 78 players who had to qualify in order to compete this week. A few big names who qualified have opted out of playing at the St. Jude Invitational, they include: Tiger Woods, Adam Scott and Justin Rose. The field we do have is star studded no doubt with 45 out of the top 50 golfers in the world playing this week. The big names include:

Jon Rahm
Rory McIlroy
Justin Thomas
Webb Simpson
Dustin Johnson
Brooks Koepka
Bryson DeChambeau
Patrick Reed
Patrick Cantlay
Xander Schauffele
Collin Morikawa
Tommy Fleetwood
Tyrrell Hatton
Tony Finau
Henrik Stenson

Marc Leishman
Gary Woodland
Matthew Fitzpatrick
Matt Kuchar
Abraham Ancer
Sungjae Im
Hideki Matsuyama
Louis Oosthuizen
Shane Lowry
Paul Casey
Daniel Berger
Bernd Wiesberger
Kevin Na
Viktor Hovland
Rickie Fowler

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TPC Southwind Course

Yards – 7238
Par – 70
Greens – Bermuda Grass

The Southwind course is one of the longer and harder courses on the PGA tour. The course went under major renovations after 2004 making an already tight course even more challenging for the years to come. TPC Southwind has difficult to hit fairways and an abundance of of hazards to avoid including 10 water hazards and 96 bunkers. In fact, no course has seen more players lose their balls in the water then the TPC Southwind and that includes the famous TPC Sawgrass course with the island hole.

While this is only the second year of the WGC St. Jude Invitational at TPC Southwind the history of this course dates further back for most PGA players. The Fedex St. Jude Classic was a regular event on the tour up until 2018 and it was played at this same course every year. So we do have many years of course history to look at even though the World Golf Championship version of the St. Jude has only existed for one year so far.

FedEx St. Jude Invitational DFS Picks

This is a go big or go home type of tournament for me. I’m going to pivot from most of the popular players and go mostly contrarian. Whenever you have a “no cut” event it’s time to take chances and pick players who have high ceilings but are more inconsistent with their play, meaning they can finish first or last.

Top Tier Golfers This Week

Jon Rahm
Rory McIlroy
Bryson DeChambeau
Justin Thomas
Patrick Cantlay
Webb Simpson
Xander Schauffele
Tyrrell Hatton

Daniel Berger
Collin Morikawa
Viktor Hovland
Dustin Johnson
Brooks Koepka
Tony Finau
Matthew Fitzpatrick

Top Tier Pick

Rory McIlroy

I have not really targeted Rory at all this year as his salary always makes him a “must win” play. This week however with no cut I think he may be due to take home his first win of 2020. He has been just average so far since we re-started the 2020 season. He has made all his cuts but is finishing on average just around 30th spot.

What I Like About McIlroy This Week

  • Finished 4th last year and overall has a good course history at TPC Southwind finishing 7th and 29th back when this event was just the St. Jude Classic
  • Between all the guys above $10K in salary this week I think he is the lowest owned between Rahm, DeChambeau, Thomas and Cantlay. In a no cut event he has just amount a chance to win as those guys as Rory tends to come on strong in the later rounds.

Projected Highest Owned From This Tier
Bryson DeChambeau


Mid Tier Golfers This Week

Hideki Matsuyama
Patrick Reed
Tommy Fleetwood
Gary Woodland
Billy Horschel
Abraham Ancer
Rickie Fowler
Jason Day
Jordan Spieth

Sergio Garcia
Matthew Wolff
Paul Casey
Marc Leishman
Matt Kuchar
Henrik Stenson
Kevin Na
Sungjae Im

Top Mid Tier Pick

Gary Woodland

Once again we are going back to Woodland as he has been a solid mid-tier pick for me a couple times already this year. He has been that inconsistent player I’m talking about placing as high as 5th for 101 points and as low as 83rd for 34 points in his last five. This is the type of guy I want to take a chance on this week because if he is on his game for 2 or 3 rounds he can win the St. Jude Invitational and this week I get a guaranteed 4 rounds from him. I like those odds with his high upside.

What I Like About Woodland This Week

  • His stats: 31st in SG:T2G, 27th in DD, 16th in GIR and 81st in DA…Those are solid across the board in most of the key stats on the PGA Tour. Once again with no cut I’ll take those numbers over 4 guaranteed rounds.

Projected Highest Owned From This Tier
Abraham Ancer, Matthew Wolff


Low End Golfers This Week

Joaquin Niemann
Ian Poulter
Scottie Scheffler
Corey Conners
Adam Hadwin
Max Homa
Bubba Watson
Danny Willett
Michael Thompson
Kevin Kisner
JT Poston

Kevin Streelman
Rafael Cabrera-Bello
Christiaan Bezuidenhout
Erik Van Rooyen
Louis Oosthuizen
Ryan Palmer
Matt Wallace
Chez Reavie
Shane Lowry
Brendon Todd
Phil Mickelson

Top Sleeper Pick

Scottie Scheffler

You want risk this week? Well it does not get more risky than Schefler who for the most part has been hot garbage since the 2020 season kicked off. He was playing great before Covid-19 shutdown the season but for some reason has not been able to get back into that groove. He missed the cut 3 events in a row before finally showing some life at the Memorial with a 22nd place finish. Here’s hoping that The Memorial was the confidence boost he needed to get back into the swing of things because he does have tremendous upside when he is paying well.

What I Like About Woodland This Week

  • Despite his recent bad play the guy is still 24th in Strokes Gained Tee To Green and 11th in Driving Distance. If he can keep it straight this week he might have a chance at a top 10 finish.

Projected Highest Owned From This Tier
Adam Hadwin, Bubba Watson

Last Week’s Picks

Paul Casey – MC
DraftKings Points = 20
FanDuel Points = 18.3

Jhonattan Vegas – MC
DraftKings Points = 33
FanDuel Points = 33.8

Richy Werenski – 3rd
DraftKings Points = 107.5
FanDuel Points = 118

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