2024 FedEx St. Jude Championship: PGA Tour Golf Betting Odds

Scottie Scheffler is favoured on the golf odds.

The Top 70 in FedExCup points following Sunday’s Wyndham Championship in North Carolina advanced to this event, although technically it was the top 71 because the PGA Tour excluded the late Grayson Murray after he took his own life earlier this year. He would have qualified. Not all the top 70 guys are playing this week because some of them are guaranteed a spot in the playoff-ending Tour Championship. The Top 50 after Memphis advance to next week’s BMW Championship so pretty much every golfer around that number through 71^st are playing.

Points are quadrupled for the first two playoff events, with the winner earning 2,000 points and 70th earning 12. Memphis has hosted a PGA Tour event every year since 1958. It previously was a non-playoff tournament but that changed starting in 2022 when this replaced the Northern Trust.  TPC Southwind remains the host, a par 70 at approximately 7,240 yards.

Americans have won this tournament – dating to its previous name(s) — for eight straight years, and Lucas Glover is the defending champion. He had to win the final regular-season event in 2023 just to get into the playoffs and then he and Patrick Cantlay finished 72 holes in Memphis at 15-under 265 to force a playoff – the second straight year there was a playoff after the two leaders finished at 15 under. 

Glover made a 20-foot par putt, a 30-foot bogey putt and a 12-foot par putt over his final six holes to close with a 1-under 69 and force the playoff with Cantlay, who shot a final-round 64. However, on the first playoff hole he hit into the water and couldn’t make a 20-footer for par – Glover easily two-putted for par and the win. At the time, Glover became only the third player in his 40s to win back-to-back weeks on the PGA Tour over the previous 25 years. Glover hasn’t won since and failed to advance to the postseason this year.

Among Canadian players, both Adam Svensson and Ben Silverman needed great results Sunday at the Wyndham Championship to get into the Top 70 but neither did. Taylor Pendrith, Corey Conners and Adam Hadwin are well inside the Top 50, so they will advance after this week. Mackenzie Hughes, though, is right near the cut-off line at No. 48 in points, while Nick Taylor is 52^nd. The current No. 51 is Harris English. 

No player Tour-wide moved in or out of the Top 70 following the Wyndham Championship. American Matt Kuchar had been the only player to make the FedExCup playoffs every year since its inception and needed a win to advance but finished 12^th. Aaron Rai got his first PGA Tour win Sunday but was already safely in the playoff field and is +4000 to go back-to-back. 

FedEx St. Jude Championship Golf Odds

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (+900 favourite) probably was going to win PGA Tour Player of the Year regardless with his six Tour wins this year but likely locked that down by rallying for the gold medal in the Paris Olympics. However, he hasn’t contended in the two years this event has been held in Memphis.

Xander Schauffele (+1400) has those two major championship wins in 2024 and led early in the Olympic competition. He was still tied for the lead entering the final round but ended up in a five-way tie for ninth place. He has not contended in the past two years of this event, either.

Rory McIlroy (+1600) was our pick to win Olympic gold but his disappointing season continued (despite three worldwide wins) with a fifth-place result. He was third in Memphis last year. Collin Morikawa (+2200) has 14 Top-25 finishes in 18 starts this season but hasn’t won yet. He has finished 13^th and 5^th the past two years here. Ludvig Aberg (+2200) was 18^th at the Olympics and makes his tournament debut. 

No Canadian has won this event. Corey Conners was the top finisher last year at T6 and might have won if not for a second-round 72 as he was brilliant otherwise. Adam Hadwin was T16, Nick Taylor T24, Adam Svensson T37 and Mackenzie Hughes T58. Conners is +3300 this week with Taylor Pendrith +6000, Hadwin +8000, Hughes +9000 and Taylor +10000. 

FedEx St. Jude Championship Golf Predictions

We like an American winner at -150 and individually will go with Jordan Spieth at +6600. He is not having a very good year and needs a great result to get into the Top 50. Spieth was sixth in Memphis in 2023.