2021 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational

The 2021 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational was a professional golf tournament being held August 5–8 at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee. It was the 23rd and final WGC Invitational tournament, the third of the World Golf Championships events in 2021. It was also the 64th year that the PGA Tour stopped in Memphis; dating back to the 1958 Memphis Open. The WGC Invitational was removed from the schedule in 2022, with the venue of the tournament hosting the FedEx St. Jude Championship, a FedEx Cup playoff event, ultimately replacing The Northern Trust.^[1]

2021 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational

Tournament information
Dates	August 5–8, 2021
Location	Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. 35.057°N 89.779°W / 35.057; -89.779
Course(s)	TPC Southwind
Tour(s)	PGA Tour European Tour
Statistics
Par	70
Length	7,244 yards (6,624 m)
Field	66
Cut	None
Prize fund	US$10,250,000
Winner's share	US$1,820,000
Champion
Abraham Ancer
264 (−16)
Location map
TPC Southwind Location in the United States Show map of the United States TPC Southwind Location in Tennessee Show map of Tennessee
← 2020

Abraham Ancer won the event after making a birdie at the second hole of a sudden-death playoff against Sam Burns and Hideki Matsuyama. The three had tied at 264 after 72 holes, 16-under-par, a stroke ahead of Harris English, the first, second and third round leader.

Venue

Main article: TPC Southwind

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.^[2]

1. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 26, 2021.

• Abraham Ancer (2)
• Daniel Berger (2,3)
• Sam Burns (2,3)
• Patrick Cantlay (2,3)
• Paul Casey (2,3)
• Stewart Cink (2,3)
• Corey Conners (2)
• Bryson DeChambeau (2,3)
• Harris English (2,3)
• Tony Finau (2)
• Matt Fitzpatrick (2,3)
• Tommy Fleetwood (2)
• Brian Harman (2)
• Tyrrell Hatton (2,3)
• Garrick Higgo (2,3)
• Max Homa (2,3)
• Billy Horschel (2,3)
• Viktor Hovland (2,3)
• Im Sung-jae (2)
• Dustin Johnson (2,3)
• Kevin Kisner (2)
• Brooks Koepka (2,3)
• Jason Kokrak (2,3)
• Marc Leishman (2)
• Shane Lowry (2)
• Robert MacIntyre (2)
• Hideki Matsuyama (2,3)
• Rory McIlroy (2,3)
• Phil Mickelson (2,3)
• Collin Morikawa (2,3)
• Kevin Na (2,3)
• Joaquín Niemann (2)
• Louis Oosthuizen (2)
• Ryan Palmer (2)
• Victor Perez (2)
• Ian Poulter
• Patrick Reed (2,3)
• Justin Rose (2)
• Xander Schauffele (2,3)
• Scottie Scheffler (2)
• Adam Scott (2)
• Webb Simpson (2)
• Cameron Smith (2)
• Jordan Spieth (2,3)
• Justin Thomas (2,3)
• Lee Westwood (2)
• Matthew Wolff (2)
• Will Zalatoris (2)

• Jon Rahm (2,3) did not play.^[3]
• Christiaan Bezuidenhout (2) did not play.^[a]

2. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of August 2, 2021.

• Lucas Herbert (3)

3. 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.^[b]

• Cameron Champ
• Cameron Davis
• Sergio García
• Lucas Glover
• Jim Herman
• Matt Jones
• Kim Si-woo
• Martin Laird
• Lee Kyoung-hoon
• Min Woo Lee
• Carlos Ortiz
• Aaron Rai
• Robert Streb

4. The winner of selected tournaments or leaders in tour Order of Merit

• Asian Tour: 2020–21 Order of Merit leader – Wade Ormsby^[5]
• PGA Tour of Australasia: 2020–21 Order of Merit winner – Brad Kennedy^[6]
• Japan Golf Tour: Bridgestone Open (2020) – Canceled
• Japan Golf Tour: Japan Golf Tour Championship (2021) – Ryosuke Kinoshita
• Sunshine Tour: Dimension Data Pro-Am (2021) – Wilco Nienaber

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, August 5, 2021

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Harris English	62	−8
T2	Jim Herman	64	−6
	Carlos Ortiz
	Ian Poulter
	Matthew Wolff
T6	Bryson DeChambeau	65	−5
	Marc Leishman
	Scottie Scheffler
T9	Daniel Berger	66	−4
	Sam Burns
	Max Homa
	Will Zalatoris

Second round

Friday, August 6, 2021

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Harris English	62-65=127	−13
T2	Abraham Ancer	67-62=129	−11
	Cameron Smith	67-62=129
T4	Sam Burns	66-64=130	−10
	Ian Poulter	64-66=130
	Scottie Scheffler	65-65=130
T7	Bryson DeChambeau	65-66=131	−9
	Louis Oosthuizen	67-64=131
T9	Jim Herman	64-68=132	−8
	Will Zalatoris	66-66=132

Third round

Saturday, August 7, 2021

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Harris English	62-65-65=192	−18
T2	Bryson DeChambeau	65-66-63=194	−16
	Cameron Smith	67-62-65=194
4	Abraham Ancer	67-62-67=196	−14
T5	Ian Poulter	64-66-67=197	−13
	Scottie Scheffler	65-65-67=197
T7	Paul Casey	68-66-65=199	−11
	Dustin Johnson	69-65-65=199
	Louis Oosthuizen	67-64-68=199
	Will Zalatoris	66-66-67=199

Final round

Sunday, August 8, 2021

Final leaderboard

Champion

(c) = past champion

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T1	Abraham Ancer	67-62-67-68=264	−16	Playoff
	Sam Burns	66-64-70-64=264
	Hideki Matsuyama (c)	68-69-64-63=264
4	Harris English	62-65-65-73=265	−15	515,000
T5	Daniel Berger	66-67-67-66=266	−14	380,667
	Paul Casey	68-66-65-67=266
	Cameron Smith	67-62-65-72=266
T8	Bryson DeChambeau	65-66-63-74=268	−12	272,500
	Will Zalatoris	66-66-67-69=268
T10	Dustin Johnson (c)	69-65-65-70=269	−11	220,000
	Ian Poulter	64-66-67-72=269

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T12	Rory McIlroy (c)	72-66-66-66=270	−10	186,500
	Jordan Spieth	71-69-63-67=270
14	Scottie Scheffler	65-65-67-74=271	−9	170,000
T15	Robert MacIntyre	69-67-68-68=272	−8	155,500
	Webb Simpson	71-65-72-64=272
T17	Tyrrell Hatton	67-68-65-73=273	−7	128,000
	Billy Horschel	68-67-66-72=273
	Phil Mickelson	69-66-70-68=273
	Joaquín Niemann	70-68-68-67=273
	Louis Oosthuizen	67-64-68-74=273
	Matthew Wolff	64-70-72-67=273
T23	Patrick Cantlay	71-67-69-67=274	−6	105,000
	Shane Lowry (c)	68-69-67-70=274
	Kevin Na	67-71-67-69=274
T26	Sergio García	70-68-65-72=275	−5	89,000
	Collin Morikawa	67-71-68-69=275
	Ryan Palmer	70-64-68-73=275
	Aaron Rai	70-67-71-67=275
	Justin Thomas (c)	67-67-69-72=275
T31	Cameron Champ	71-72-65-68=276	−4	77,000
	Patrick Reed	68-69-69-70=276
	Lee Westwood	67-69-69-71=276
T34	Tony Finau	69-65-69-74=277	−3	69,500
	Jason Kokrak	67-68-68-74=277
T36	Corey Conners	67-69-69-73=278	−2	59,000
	Brian Harman	70-69-69-70=278
	Lucas Herbert	69-70-70-69=278
	Viktor Hovland	73-65-69-71=278
	Marc Leishman	65-71-69-73=278
	Carlos Ortiz	64-69-73-72=278
	Adam Scott (c)	74-66-70-68=278
T43	Stewart Cink (c)	68-66-74-71=279	−1	53,000
	Brad Kennedy	67-70-70-72=279
	Ryosuke Kinoshita	74-66-70-69=279
T46	Tommy Fleetwood	69-70-69-72=280	E	49,000
	Jim Herman	64-68-73-75=280
	Im Sung-jae	70-70-67-73=280
	Xander Schauffele	69-73-70-68=280
	Robert Streb	71-66-71-72=280
T51	Max Homa	66-68-74-73=281	+1	45,000
	Matt Jones	69-68-74-70=281
	Wade Ormsby	69-71-68-73=281
T54	Brooks Koepka (c)	70-69-67-76=282	+2	42,000
	Lee Kyoung-hoon	68-74-70-70=282
	Justin Rose	69-69-69-75=282
T57	Matt Fitzpatrick	70-72-67-74=283	+3	39,167
	Lucas Glover	71-73-66-73=283
	Martin Laird	68-69-69-77=283
60	Cameron Davis	68-72-73-72=285	+5	38,000
61	Victor Perez	71-69-71-76=287	+7	37,500
62	Min Woo Lee	67-75-74-72=288	+8	37,000
63	Kevin Kisner	67-72-71-79=289	+9	36,500
64	Wilco Nienaber	76-72-72-70=290	+10	36,000
65	Kim Si-woo	70-70-75-78=293	+13	35,500
WD	Garrick Higgo	68-70-67=205	−5

Source:^[7]

Scorecard

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	4	5	3	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	5	4	4
Ancer	−14	−15	−16	−16	−16	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−16	−16	−16	−16	−16	−16
Burns	−10	−11	−11	−11	−12	−13	−13	−13	−14	−15	−15	−15	−13	−13	−14	−15	−15	−16
Matsuyama	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−11	−12	−12	−12	−13	−14	−15	−15	−16	−16	−16
English	−17	−17	−18	−18	−18	−19	−19	−20	−20	−20	−18	−18	−18	−16	−16	−15	−15	−15
Berger	−10	−11	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13	−14	−14	−13	−12	−12	−13	−14
Casey	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−13	−12	−12	−12	−11	−11	−11	−12	−13	−13	−14	−14	−14
Smith	−16	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−18	−17	−16	−16	−15	−16	−16	−17	−16	−16	−16	−14
DeChambeau	−17	−17	−18	−17	−18	−17	−17	−17	−18	−17	−14	−14	−14	−14	−13	−13	−13	−12

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Triple bogey+

Source:^[7]

Playoff

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Abraham Ancer	4-3	−1	1,820,000
T2	Sam Burns	4-4	E	917,500
	Hideki Matsuyama	4-4

Source:^[7]

Notes

1. Bezuidenhout was ineligible to compete as he had already played in 12 tournaments on the 2020–21 PGA Tour, the maximum allowed for non-members who have not qualified for Special Temporary Membership on that tour.^[4]
2. The "Strength of Field Rating" is a measure of the combined world ranking of players in the field. It is used by the Official World Golf Ranking to determine the number of ranking points available at each tournament, subject to tour minimums.