FedEx St. Jude Championship

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We have finally reached the FedEx Cup Playoffs. TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee, will host the FedEx St. Jude Championship, which will play as a par 70 measuring 7,243 yards and features Bermuda grass greens. Being that this is now the playoffs, we have a 70-man, no-cut event ahead. The field is loaded with most of the top players in the world in attendance, led by Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIIroy and John Rahm.

Designed by Ron Prichard in the late 1980s, this TPC track hosted more than 30 PGA tour events. It hosted the FedEx St Jude Classic from 1989 to 2018, got bumped for 3 years to WGC status and shifted to a playoff event last year where Will Zalatoris won beating Sepp Straka in a playoff. As Justin Thomas said last year, “It’s veery similar to East Lake where it’s right in front of you and super old school. You’ve just got to put the ball in the fairway and then if you do, you have some scrabble clubs into some greens where you can take advantage and make a lot of birdies.

The Tricky bermudagrass rough is not fun ti play from especially when you have water in play on 11 holes. Add that with tiny green complexes and finding fairways becomes top priority. That is why we see a lot of golfers club down and keep driver in their bag on a lot of par 4s. The exception to that is when the course softens up so keep an eye on the interviews in the lead-up for potential pointers on how the fairways are rolling.

Finding the greens has been easy in the past where the field has found 73% when attacking from the fairway. Golfers that miss the fairway find the green 41% of the time, one of the harshest penalties for missing a fairway that we see all year. The greens run very pure with golfers one-putting 44.6% of the time last year. Thomas pointed out he correlation with East Lake with some other comparable courses being Harbour Town Links, TPC River Highlands, Muirfield Village, and TPC Sawsgras. Some common themes include performance on bermudagrass tracks, courses with a lot of water hazards to navigate around, courses with a big penalty for missing the fairway, and courses that allow you or force you to club down on the tee boxes.

Rahm +900

Cantlay +1600

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Trends 📈📉 via Oddsshark

⚾️ Marlins at Reds

• The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Miami's last 6 games

• The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Miami's last 5 games when playing on the road against Cincinnati

• The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Cincinnati's last 5 games

• The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Cincinnati's last 5 games at home

⚾️ Rockies at Brewers

• The total has gone OVER in 5 of Milwaukee's last 6 games when playing at home against Colorado

⚾️ Rangers at Athletics

• The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Texas's last 5 games on the road

• The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Oakland's last 6 games at home

⚾️ Nationals at Phillies

• Washington is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games

• Washington is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games

• The total has gone OVER in 5 of Philadelphia's last 6 games at home

• The total has gone OVER in 4 of Philadelphia's last 5 games

⚾️ Cardinals at Rays

• The total has gone UNDER in 4 of St. Louis's last 5 games

• The total has gone UNDER in 4 of St. Louis's last 5 games when playing Tampa Bay

• Tampa Bay is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against St. Louis

• Tampa Bay is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing St. Louis

⚾️ Twins at Tigers

• The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Minnesota's last 7 games when playing on the road against Detroit

⚾️ Braves at Pirates

• The total has gone OVER in 5 of Pittsburgh's last 6 games at home

⚾️ Bue Jays at Guardians

• The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Toronto's last 7 games

• The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Cleveland's last 7 games

⚾️ Royals at Red Sox

• Boston is 8-2 SU in its last 10 games when playing at home against Kansas City

⚾️ Cubs at Mets

• The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Chi Cubs's last 5 games on the road

• The total has gone UNDER in 6 of NY Mets's last 8 games at home

⚾️ Yankees at White Sox

• The total has gone UNDER in 6 of NY Yankees's last 7 games when playing Chi White Sox

• NY Yankees is 9-2 ATS in its last 11 games when playing on the road against Chi White Sox

• The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Chi White Sox's last 5 games at home

⚾️ Giants at Angels

• San Francisco is 8-1 ATS in its last 9 games when playing on the road against LA Angels

• San Francisco is 11-2 ATS in its last 13 games when playing LA Angels

• The total has gone OVER in 5 of LA Angels's last 6 games when playing at home against San Francisco

• The total has gone OVER in 4 of LA Angels's last 5 games when playing San Francisco

⚾️ Padres at Mariners

• The total has gone UNDER in 4 of San Diego's last 5 games when playing Seattle

• Seattle is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games

• The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Seattle's last 7 games when playing at home against San Diego

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39% of bets and 55% of money is on OVER 10 MIA at CIN

53% of bets and 68% of money is on OVER 8.5 MIN at DET

59% of bets and 75% of money is on BAL -135

32% of bets and 63% of money is on UNDER 9.5 HOU at BAL

35% of bets and 65% of money is on UNDER 9.5 ATL at PIT

58% of bets and 86% of money is on CHC -1.5 (+140)

31% of bets and 47% of money is on SF +1.5 (-180)

Future Odds 🔮 via Bovada Sportsbook

Injury Report 🏥 via ESPN

ATL (RF) Ronald Acuna Jr | Day-to-Day

BAL (3B) Ramon Urias | Day-to-Day 

BOS (DH) Justin Turner | Day-to-Day - Heel

CWS (SS) Tim Anderson | Day-to-Day - Forearm

LAD (DH) JD Martinez | Out - Hamstring, will get MRI today

LAD (SP) Clayton Kershaw | 15 Day IL - Shoulder, plans to start tomorrow vs Colorado

MIN (RF) Max Kepler | Day-to-Day - Foot

MIN (1B) Donovan Solano | Out

SEA (SP) Bryan Woo | 15 Day IL - Forearm

STL (RF) Tyler O’Neill | Day-to-Day - Knee

TB (SP) Shane McClanahan | 15 Day IL - Forearm, unlikely to pitch again this season

TEX (3B) Josh Jung | 15 Day IL - Thumb, will have surgery and miss up to 6 weeks

TOR (CF) Kevin Kiermaier | 10 Day IL - Elbow

Picks 🔒

Marlins +110 | Cueto, who spent his first 7-plus MLB season with the Reds, makes his first road start of the season in his old stomping grounds. He’ll face a skidding Cincinnati team that has dropped 7 of the past 8 games overall.

Brewers -1.5 (-120) | The Brewers are a decent play on the run line in the series finale. Flexen has been very giving on the road, and you need to keep fading him and his team until he starts to make significant progress away from home. He also has a horrible 8.66 ERA across 17 2/3 IP in two daytime starts and five relief appearances in his time with Seattle.