2021 FedEx St. Jude Invitational: World Golf Championships Betting Odds

Brooks Koepka is favoured on the golf odds. A total of 48 of the world’s Top 50 players are scheduled to play.

This was a normal PGA Tour event called the St. Jude Classic through 2018 but then was upgraded to a WGC tournament, replacing the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (held in Akron, Ohio), as FedEx is one of the Tour’s mega-sponsors – hence the FedExCup playoffs – and its corporate headquarters are in Memphis.

TPC Southwind in Memphis is a par 70 at approximately 7,240 yards. Because it’s a field of 66 players (scheduled), there is no cut. World No. 1 Jon Rahm is out due to a positive COVID test that cost him a chance to play the Olympics. Bryson DeChambeau also recently tested positive, which meant he couldn’t play in the Games, either. He wasn’t going to play here but then changed his plans after missing the Olympics and has been cleared.

This is the final WGC event of the season. Collin Morikawa won the first in Florida in February and Billy Horschel captured the Match Play in March in Texas. There’s usually a fourth in Shanghai, but it was cancelled this season due to COVID.

There is also an opposite-field event this week, the Barracuda Championship, for any Tour players who didn’t qualify for the St. Jude and want to compete.

FedEx St. Jude Invitational Golf Betting Odds

Dustin Johnson, who has dropped back to world No. 2 (replaced by Jon Rahm at No. 1), played this tournament last year but withdrew because of a back injury after a first-round 78. DJ isn’t having a very good year despite that ranking but does come off a T8 at the British Open.

Louis Oosthuizen was the 54-hole leader at the British Open but ended up third at 11 under, four strokes behind Morikawa. Oosthuizen is +1200 as he plays here for the first time.

Patrick Reed and Tony Finau are both +1600. I liked Finau to win the British Open and he was T-15 at 5 under. He has played here both years with a best of T-3 in 2020. Reed was T-23 here two years ago in his lone visit. He missed the cut at the British Open.

Seamus Power, who won the opposite-field Barbasol Championship on Sunday, had been priced +3500 this week but decided to withdraw. I was really high on Brian Harman at +3300, but he also withdrew. Wolff is +2800 and Thompson +6600 as they try to become the first two-time winners of the 3M Open.

The top Canadian finisher in 2020 was Michael Gligic at T-26 (11 under). Roger Sloan, Aaron Crawford and David Hearn missed the cut. Adam Hadwin is +8000 this week with Sloan +15000, and Hearn and Gligic each +40000. Hadwin missed the cut at the British Open. Gligic was 19^th at the Barbasol, Hearn T-20 and Sloan T-31.