MEMPHIS – Will Zalatoris won his first career PGA Tour title in his 56th Tour start at the FedEx St. Jude Championship. In doing so, Zalatoris became the first player since Camilo Villegas at the 2008 BMW Championship to make a FedEx Cup Playoffs event his maiden Tour title.
Sunday’s playoff marked the eighth playoff this season and the first since the Charles Schwab Challenge. It was the fifth playoff at the FedEx St. Jude Championship in the FedExCup era (2007-present). Most recently, Tony Finau defeated Cameron Smith in a playoff at Liberty National Golf Club in 2021.
In his first playoff on Tour, Sepp Straka finished as runner-up but made his fourth Top-10 of the season, moving to No. 8 in the FedEx Cup overall standings. He has never made it past the first FedEx Cup Playoffs event in three previous seasons.
Four players who entered the week outside of the Top 70 moved inside the cut to qualify for this week’s BMW Championship. They are: Lucas Glover(T-3), Adam Scott (T-5), Andrew Putnam (T-5) and Wyndham Clark (T-28).
Of players who made cut, Brendon Todd finished 67th to move outside the Top 70.
Prior to the start of the final round, Cameron Smith (T13) was assessed a two-stroke penalty for a breach of Rule 14.7 (playing ball from the wrong place) on hole No. 4 during the third round as he was operating under Rule 17.1 (when ball is in penalty area). Smith’s score was adjusted from 199 (-11) to 201 (-9). Smith finished T-13 in his first start since winning The Open Championship.
