MEMPHIS – Players representing 15 countries are in the 66-player field for the FedEx St. Jude, the final World Golf Championship event of the season and only two weeks remain until the start of the FedEx Cup Playoffs.
Top-ranked Jon Rahm is not in the field after testing positive for COVID-19. He and Bryson DeChambeau were forced to withdraw from the men’s competition at the Tokyo Olympics last weekend. DeChambeau passed his testing protocols and will play this week. The only other Top-50 player not in the field is Christiaan Bezuidenhout, who has reached his max of 12 starts as a non-PGA Tour member.
Dustin Johnson is a two-time winner of the FedEx St. Jude Classic and has won six career WGC events. He’s posted 13 consecutive rounds under par at TPC Southwind.
Tommy Fleetwood is the only PGA Tour member in the field that has not secured full-time membership for the 2021-22 season. Fleetwood enters the week No. 133 in the FedExCup standings and trails No. 125 Rickie Fowler by 34.14 points (roughly a two-way T-28 this week). If Fleetwood is inside the Top 125 after next week’s Wyndham Championship, he will qualifies for the FedExCup Playoffs and secures his PGA TOUR card for the 2021-22 season. If he is between No. 126-150 after the Wyndham Championship, he will have limited status on the Tour in 2021-22.
Also being contested this week is the Barracuda Championship, offering 300 FedExCup points to the winner, which is one of three events remaining in the 2020-21 PGA Tour Regular Season. The field includes three of the nine players who have qualified for the FedExCup Playoffs in every season since inception of the FedExCup (2007-present) – Brandt Snedeker (No. 91), Matt Kuchar (No. 120) and Ryan Moore (No. 140), as well as 20 of the 25 players between Nos. 126-150 in the standings.