FedEx St. Jude Classic
The FedEx St. Jude Classic is a regular golf tournament on the PGA Tour. It has been played annually in May in Memphis, Tennessee on the course at the Tournament Players Club at Southwind since 1989. It has been announced that the Stanford Financial Group will take over as the tournament's title sponsor in 2007, and the tournament will be renamed to the Stanford St. Jude Championship.
FedEx Corporation is the sponsor of the tournament. All proceeds from the tournament are donated to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
The 2005 purse is $5,200,000, with $936,000 going to the winner.
The tournament was founded in 1958 as the Memphis Open and was played annually at Colonial Country Club in Cordova, Tennessee until 1989. In 1969, actor Danny Thomas agreed to lend his name to the tournament in exchange for his St. Jude Hospital becoming the tournament's charity. Accordingly, the tournament changed its name the next year to the Danny Thomas Classic. In 1977, ex-President Gerald Ford, who had just left office, hit a hole-in-one at the tournament's Celebrity Pro-Am. The same year, pro golfer Al Geiberger shot a record 59 (13-under-par) round, which has since been equalled but never broken in PGA play. In 1989, the event moved to its present location at the TPC at Southwind in Memphis.
[edit] Winners
- 2006 Jeff Maggert
- 2005 Justin Leonard
- 2004 David Toms
- 2003 David Toms
- 2002 Len Mattiace
- 2001 Bob Estes
- 2000 Notah Begay III
- 1999 Ted Tryba
- 1998 Nick Price (playoff)
- 1997 Greg Norman
- 1996 John Cook
- 1995 Jim Gallagher, Jr.
Federal Express St. Jude Classic
- 1994 Dicky Pride (playoff)
- 1993 Nick Price
- 1992 Jay Haas
- 1991 Fred Couples
- 1990 Tom Kite (playoff)
- 1989 John Mahaffey
- 1988 Jodie Mudd
- 1987 Curtis Strange
- 1986 Mike Hulbert
St. Jude Memphis Classic
- 1985 Hal Sutton (playoff)
Danny Thomas Memphis Classic
- 1984 Bob Eastwood
- 1983 Larry Mize
- 1982 Raymond Floyd
- 1981 Jerry Pate
- 1980 Lee Trevino
- 1979 Gil Morgan (playoff)
- 1978 Andy Bean (playoff)
- 1977 Al Geiberger
- 1976 Gibby Gilbert
- 1975 Gene Littler
- 1974 Gary Player
- 1973 Dave Hill
- 1972 Lee Trevino
- 1971 Lee Trevino
- 1970 Dave Hill
Memphis Open Invitational
- 1969 Dave Hill
- 1968 Bob Lunn
- 1967 Dave Hill
- 1966 Bert Yancey
- 1965 Jack Nicklaus (playoff)
- 1964 Mike Souchak
- 1963 Tony Lema (playoff)
- 1962 Lionel Hebert (playoff)
- 1961 Cary Middlecoff
- 1960 Tommy Bolt (playoff)
Memphis Open
- 1959 Don Whitt (playoff)
- 1958 Billy Maxwell
