2023 FedEx St. Jude Championship Fantasy Sleeper Report

Showcasing the precise timing of a Swiss master craftsman, Lucas Glover punched his ticket to the FedEx Cup playoffs with a comeback win at the Wyndham Championship – his first victory in two years.

In truth, Glover has been in the wilderness for much of the 2022-23 season, but a switch to a broom-handle style putter has paid dividends – allowing him to finally gain some numbers on the green to go with his already-excellent ball-striking.

Even at the age of 43, Glover can still hang with the best from tee-to-green, and while he needed a helping hand from another renaissance man in Billy Horschel on Sunday, his metronomic ball-striking and re-found mojo on the greens were enough to land him a fifth PGA TOUR title.

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We’ll see Glover at this week’s St. Jude Championship, the first of the FedEx Cup playoff events, but there’s no place in the final 70 for Justin Thomas, whose chip at the final hole on Sunday crashed into the flag but refused to drop for the birdie he needed.

Adam Scott and Shane Lowry are also amongst the titans that will miss out on the end-of-season extravaganza, although the actual list of 70 players contesting the St. Jude reads like a who’s who of world golf – if they’re on the PGA TOUR and they’re a stud, they’re probably playing this week.

And what a treat awaits them. For many, TPC Southwind is up there with the very best courses on the PGA TOUR rotation – a hard but fair test of ball-striking that examines every aspect of a player’s game.

The fact that three of the last five winners here are major champions – and that the two that aren’t may one day be, speaks volumes about TPC Southwind; if you’re not a ball-striking god, you may as well stay at home.

A decent stretch at 7,243 yards for its Par 70, TPC Southwind features two scorable Par 5s as well as a litany of tougher Par 4s – that said, the small Bermuda greens, which usually run as quick as the wind, may be softened by a rather unpredictable weather pattern heading for Memphis this week.

Even so, tight doglegging fairways present their own danger off the tee, while water hazards lurk o eleven holes – this is one of the wettest tracks on TOUR, and one of the most likely to be headlined by the odd stray shot.

It was one such approach into the drink that cost Sepp Straka a playoff here 12 months ago against Will Zalatoris, so there’s fun to be had on every hole here if you’re watching on from home – less fun, you expect, will be had by the players if the rain-laden weather forecast holds true.

Ball-striking thoroughbreds are the way to go at TPC Southwind then, but who’s on our betting docket this week? Let’s take a look at our FedEx St. Jude Championship 2023 sleeper report.

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