FedEx St. Jude Classic

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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 2006 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, President Gerald Ford, who had just left office, hit a hole-in-one at the tournament's Celebrity Pro-Am. The same year, Al Geiberger shot a record 59 (13-under-par) round. In 1989, the event moved to its present location at the TPC at Southwind in Memphis.

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

PGA Tour Events

Majors: The Masters | U.S. Open | The Open Championship (British Open) | PGA Championship | see also Grand Slam of golf

External link

[The FedEx St. Jude Classic]

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