Key Stats TPC Southwind

FedEx St. Jude Classic

June 9th – 12th, 2016

TPC at Southwind

Germantown, TN

Par: 70 / Yardage: 7,239

Purse: $6.2 million

with $1,116,000 to the winner

Defending Champion:
Fabian Gomez

by Sal Johnson

Founder, Chief Data Officer, GOLFstats

E-mail me at:
sal@golfstats.com

This is based on the most important stats for the TPC Southwind, based on data from last year’s FedEx St. Jude Classic and using data from all the players in the field with stats from 2016.
Last week we told you how Muirfield Village has lost it’s reputation as the course to get ready for the U.S. Open. This week we have the course that is a perfect place to get ready for Oakmont, that is the TPC Southwind, which has always been one of the toughest courses on the PGA Tour. Just in the last six years it’s never been higher than 14th on the list of toughest courses of the year, in 2015 the course played almost a shot harder than it’s par and it’s 70.93 average ranked it 9th.

In looking at our four categories, our first for TPC Southwind are strokes gained tee-to green, last year the course ranked 6th while last year’s champion Fabian Gomez ranked 1st. Next important is one putt percentage, TPC Southwind ranked 46th, meaning that players had a lot of one putts. Gomez ranked T-2nd in that stat. .
Our third important stat is scrambling, players will miss greens and have to get it up and down. The course ranked T21st last year while Gomez was 8th. Last is birdie average last year it ranked 11st which means it was hard to make birdies as in the field the average was 3.15 per player. For Gamez he averaged 5.00 and was T-2nd.
*Strokes Gained tee-to-green: Course may have only been 25th hardest on tour, but you need to hit it long and straight along with hitting lot’s of greens. So this is important to find a player that will do this

*One Putt Percentage: The figure that shows how many times a player one putts a green.

*Scrambling: The percent of time a player misses the green in regulation, but still makes par or better.

*Birdie Average: Average number of birdies made over the course of a round

Players from this year’s field with stats from 2016:

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