PGA Tour는 FedEx St. Jude Championship과 함께 페덱스컵 플레이오프 모드에 진입했다. 멤피스 인근의 TPC Southwind에서 열리는 이 첫 번째 레그는 페덱스컵 챔피언을 가르는 3개 토너먼트 중 첫 번째이며, 69명의 선수들이 컷 없이 4라운드 전투를 펼칠 예정이다.
01디펜딩 챔피언 플릿우드, 역사적 연승 노려
톰미 플릿우드는 지난 시즌 페덱스컵 우승자로서 역사상 처음으로 디펜딩 타이틀을 노리고 있다. 최근 Royal Birkdale의 오픈 챔피언십에서 공동 4위를 기록한 후, 이번 주 비즈니스에 집중하고 있다. 플릿우드는 TPC Southwind에서도 경험이 풍부해 2019년 데뷔에서 공동 4위, 2023년 공동 3위, 2025년에는 셰플러와 함께 공동 3위(1타 뒤)로 마무리했다.
02주요 선수들의 현황
홀리 샤우펠레는 오픈 챔피언십에서 공동 18위를 기록한 후 미국으로 돌아와 로켓 클래식에서 마이클 토르비예르센 다음 공동 2위를 기록했다. 이는 시즌 최고의 성적이자 6번째 톱10 피니시다. 샤우펠레는 2024년 TPC Southwind에서 히데키 마츠야마 다음 2타 차이로 공동 2위에 들었다.
히데키 마츠야마는 페덱스컵 랭킹 1위이면서도 시즌 중 단 1승만 거두었다. 그러나 톱5 피니시는 11번으로, 2위 피니시를 무려 25%의 대회에서 기록했다. 마츠야마는 현재 연속 3개 톱10 피니시로 시즌 최고의 컨디션을 보이고 있다. 그는 2024년 FedEx St. Jude Championship을 우승했고 2021년 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational에서 플레이오프로 떨어진 경험이 있다. TPC Southwind에서의 최근 5라운드는 모두 공동 20위 이상의 성적을 거뒀으며, 그 중 7라운드는 65 이하의 스코어를 기록했다.
성준 임은 현재 페덱스컵 스탠딩 53위로, 상위 50명 진출을 위해 이번 주가 매우 중요하다. 로켓 클래식에서 공동 15위, 윈덤 챔피언십에서 공동 14위를 기록했으며, TPC Southwind에서는 2025년 공동 17위, 2023년 공동 6위, 2022년 공동 12위의 성적을 거뒀다.
마테오 에차바리아는 지난 3월 PGA National에서 우승을 거뒀으며, 시즌 중 윈덤 챔피언십에서 공동 12위를 기록했다. 마지막 두 라운드(69-66)에서 특히 좋은 스코어를 기록했다.
조던 스미스는 현재 페덱스컵 64위로 안타깝게 상위 50 진출을 위해 큰 주가 필요하다. 그는 Strokes-Gained에서 상위 40권에 들어있으며, GIR 퍼센티지에서도 높은 랭킹을 유지하고 있다.
03Original (English) — PGA TOUR
The PGA TOUR regular season shifts into FedExCup Playoffs mode with the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind outside Memphis. The first of three stops to determine the FedExCup champion includes a jam-packed market of prop bets at DraftKings Sportsbook.
Without a cut this week, the field of 69 players will all have four rounds to make or break our plays. Let's dive in!
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I am hitching my wagon to two players in form who are familiar with handling their business at this time of year. The reigning FedExCup champion, Fleetwood, has left behind the crowds and adulation of Royal Birkdale and The Open Championship, where he finished T4, and is focused on becoming the first player ever to defend the FedExCup title. Only Scheffler and Matt Fitzpatrick have gained more shots on the competition this season. He also enjoys TPC Southwind. He earned T4 on his 2019 debut, cashed T3 in 2023 and kicked off his run to the title in 2025 sharing third place with Scheffler, one shot out of a playoff.
Schauffele is finding the best form of the season when the most money and points are on the line. After earning T18 at The Open Championship, he returned to the States and finished second to Michael Thorbjornsen at the Rocket Classic, his best finish of the season and sixth top-10 result. Schauffele also finished second at TPC Southwind in 2024, two shots behind Hideki Matsuyama. In eight career starts in Memphis, the Californian claimed T27 or better in five, including T24 or better in his last three. A fantastic driver of the golf ball, playing from the sprinkler line never hurts.
Anytime I can erase the hottest player over the last five years from the equation, I will take the chance. The No. 1 player in the FedExCup rankings has only one victory this season in 20 starts, but racked up 11 top-five paydays, including finishing second in 25% of his outings. Matsuyama arrives in his best form of the season on a streak of three consecutive top-10 results. TPC Southwind (par 70, 7,288 yards) is a perfect fit to keep the fires burning. Making his seventh start on the property, he won the FedEx St. Jude Championship in 2024 and lost in a playoff in the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in 2021. His last five starts at the course, regardless of event, have produced paydays of T20 or better, including seven rounds of 65 or lower. He also holds the lowest winning total, 263, since TPC Southwind started hosting the FedExCup Playoffs in 2022.
The Korean, who begins the week at No. 53 in the standings, knows that the top 50 advance to the BMW Championship next week at Bellerive Country Club upriver in St. Louis. That is step one to extending his appearances at the TOUR Championship to eight consecutive seasons. Arriving in Memphis off eight consecutive rounds in the 60s for T15 at the Rocket Classic followed by T14 at the Wyndham Championship, he has found momentum. In three of his last four starts at TPC Southwind, he earned T17 in 2025, T6 in 2023 and T12 in 2022.
Echavarria navigated watery, breezy PGA National to victory in early March, his third win on TOUR. A busy spring saw him finish T6 at the Charles Schwab Challenge at the demanding Colonial Country Club in May. He enters Memphis following four rounds in the 60s, including 62 on Saturday, for T12 at the Wyndham Championship. On his debut in 2025 at TPC Southwind, he closed 69-66, his best two rounds of the week, for T38.
Englishman Jordan Smith continues to pound fairways and greens, and sitting at No. 64 in the standings, he will need a big week to advance to St. Louis. He ranks in the top 40 in Strokes-Gained: Tee-to-Green, SG: Off the Tee and SG: Approach. Only Kohles (not qualified) and Scheffler had a better percentage of GIR hit this season on TOUR. In his last five starts on TOUR, he earned T21 or better three times, including T14 last week in Greensboro.
I am riding with experience in this three-man market. The favorite is Min Woo Lee (+106), but I prefer him on a wide-open layout. Only three of his 12 career rounds at TPC Southwind are in the 60s. Ryan Fox (+260) returns to golf after weeks of celebrating with the claret jug and spinning yarns as the Champion Golfer of 2026. Both players rank in the top 22 and will most likely be at the TOUR Championship. Scott, the veteran of the trio, sits at No. 29 and still has work to do to guarantee his place in the top 30 who advance to Atlanta. Fresh off T9 at The Open Championship, the 46-year-old will attempt to surpass 2023 champ Lucas Glover (43) and 2025 winner Justin Rose (45) as the oldest champion in recent memory. He cashed T5 in 2022 and was followed by picking up T18 in his previous visit in 2024.
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