MEMPHIS, Tenn. – This has been a quiet week in the City of the Blues, with the WGC-FexEx St. Jude Invitational sandwiched among an Olympics played halfway around the world, then a Tour-status pressure-cooker in North Carolina next week, followed by the big-money FexExCup playoffs.
Forty-eight of the top 50 players in the world have assembled here, the best of the best, and even though no one’s life will change with the $1.89 million first-place check, the proceedings will take on an added importance come Sunday.
Here’s why – and in particular, for whom:
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The leader at 18-under 192, is two shots clear of Bryson DeChambeau as he guns for his third victory of the season, and his first WGC title.