2019 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational Odds & Preview

Now that the Open Championship has come and gone, the PGA Tour season has finished its major tournaments. Now comes the last World Golf Championship event on the PGA Tour slate, and while these tournaments do not have the same prestige as the majors, they do pay big in terms of purses, and world ranking points come in bunches here. Xander Schauffele, Dustin Johnson and Kevin Kisner have won the first three World Golf Championships, and now TPC Southwind will host the fourth, which in previous years has been the WGC-Bridgestone, held in Akron, Ohio, and the defending champion from 2018, Justin Thomas, will be here as well. We have your contender odds for the tournament as well as golf betting suggestions for your wager cards.

2019 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational Odds & Preview

• When: July 25–28
• Location: Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
• Course: TPC Southwind
• Tour: PGA/European
• Par: 70
• Length: 7,244 yards
• Field: 63 players
• Prize fund: $10,250,000
• TV: Golf Channel / CBS (Final Two Rounds)
• Live Stream: GolfChannel.com

Contender Odds to Win the 2019 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational

• Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy                                                                                    +900
• Brooks Koepka                                                                                                           +1000
• Jon Rahm                                                                                                                   +1200
• Justin Thomas                                                                                                            +1400
• Patrick Cantlay                                                                                                           +2000
• Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, Xander Schauffele                                                +2200
• Adam Scott, Bryson DeChambeau, Henrik Stenson, Webb Simpson                      +2800
• Hideki Matsuyama, Jason Day, Jordan Spieth, Matt Kuchar, Tony Finau                +3300
• Gary Woodland, Louis Oosthuizen, Patrick Reed, Paul Casey                                +4000
• Tyrrell Hatton                                                                                                              +4500
• Andrew Putnam                                                                                                          +5000
• Chez Reavie, Matthew Fitzpatrick                                                                              +5500
• Matt Wallace, Rafael Cabrera Bello                                                                           +6000
• Billy Horschel, Brandt Snedeker, Danny Willett, Kevin Kisner, Marc Leishman, Phil Mickelson                                                                                 +6600
• Sergio Garcia                                                                                                              +7000
• Ian Poulter, Matthew Wolff                                                                                         +8000
• Keegan Bradley                                                                                                          +9000
• Alex Noren, Bubba Watson, Cameron Smith, Eddie Pepperell, Haotong Li, Jim Furyk                                                                                                                    +10000

Patrick Cantlay

Cantlay drives the ball well, which pays off at TPC Southwind. Cantlay is one of the Tour’s biggest hitters, and he leads the Tour in scoring average. He is second in strokes gained: total and in scrambling, and fourth in strokes gained: tee to green. He offers a considerable amount of value despite playing on a course that suits tee-shot strong golfers like him.

Xander Schauffele

Schauffele has had three of his six best performances on the PGA Tour at tournaments with no cut (there are only 63 golfers in this field), including a pair of wins. His WGC-Bridgestone finish in 2018 and his performance at the CJ Cup in 2017 are definitely exceptions, as those were very disappointing, but he already has one WGC win this year, and the feast-or-famine element doubtless contributed to the value he brings this week.

Jordan Spieth

Spieth has been dreadful off the tee and with his iron play, but his short play has come back dramatically. He can use that to recover from iffy drives, and since his putting has returned to the level where it was when he was winning majors, the value that he offers makes him an interesting play.

Hideki Matsuyama

Matsuyama is another golfer who excels when there is not a cut. He has been the best player on the PGA Tour in 2019 who still has yet to win a tournament. He already has won two World Golf Championship events in his career. He comes into this tournament with 20 straight events where his irons have gained him strokes, and his putting has improved lately.

Justin Thomas

Thomas missed almost two months in 2019 with a wrist injury, and his results since returning have been average. However, he finished T11 at the Open Championship, the best result in his five tournaments after recovery. He is eighth in the field for strokes gained: tee to green and fourth for strokes gained on par 70 courses since his return. He is another terrific golfer off the tee who should benefit from TPC Southwind’s layout. If he keeps up this push toward redemption, this weekend could be a big one for him.

Dustin Johnson

Johnson is another terrific player when it comes to World Golf Championships. He has two wins in his career at TPC Southwind, and given how well he plays in these tournaments, despite the relatively low value, it’s hard to leave him off a wager card.