2026 FedEx St. Jude Championship leaderboard, Thursday live updates, scores, tee times
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Welcome to the 2026 FedEx St. Jude Championship, the first event of the FedEx Cup Playoffs. This tournament will take place at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee. Here are 15 interesting facts to get you started.
Thursday, August 13th will be the first round of play, with tee times at 9:10 a.m. ET for Tommy Fleetwood and Jordan Spieth, 9:20 a.m. ET for Tom Kim and Ludvig Aberg, and 9:30 a.m. ET for Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler. Justin Thomas and Si Woo Kim tee off at 10:35 a.m. ET, and Viktor Hovland and Hideki Matsuyama at 10:45 a.m. ET.
The tournament will be broadcast on ESPN, Golf Channel, PGA Tour Live on ESPN+, ESPN2, Golf Channel, and PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM. ESPN is televising two hours of live coverage for the first time in the FedEx Cup Playoffs.
There are 70 players who qualified for the tournament, but only 69 will tee off, as Daniel Berger will not be playing due to injury. This field includes 11 first-time participants, including Jackson Koivun, who qualified at No. 70.
Betting odds, as of now, favor world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler with the lowest odds at +450. Rory McIlroy follows at +1400, and Xander Schauffele is not far behind at +1800. Other notable golfers include Cameron Young at +2000, Sam Burns at +2000, and Tommy Fleetwood at +2000.
The weather in Memphis this week is expected to be hot, with temperatures reaching triple digits. The high will be 99 degrees, with only a 5 percent chance of rain. For the rest of the week, it will be 100, 101, and 103 degrees, respectively.
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