Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – 2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship

FedEx St. Jude Championship Fantasy Sleeper Report

What a time to have the best putting week of your life.

At the peak of his powers, Cameron Young was a big hitter that showed plenty of class on approach and around-the-green… but putting woes ultimately prevented him from building on an impressive resumé of major top-tens, Presidents Cup appearances, and PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year status.

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And then, since the start of the year, Young’s game has done a 360: his ball-striking has gone down the toilet, but his putting – albeit inconsistent – has at times reached an elite standard.

It felt like there was a possibility that, at some point, his ball-striking would improve to its mean… and it did, at the Wyndham Championship last week. But would his work with the flatstick remain as lethal as of late?

You bet it would. Young gained a cumulative +10.60 on the greens at Sedgefield, which is quite comfortably the best putting performance of his career. And it was as such that he effectively lapped the field, leading by as many as eight strokes at one point before settling for a winning margin of six.

Already safely in the top 70 of the FedEx Cup standings, Young has now climbed to 16 in the rankings… a place in the TOUR Championship now looks likely.

Some big names finished outside the top 70 meanwhile, bringing their seasons to an abrupt end. Davis Thompson, Gary Woodland, both Hojgaards, Adam Scott, and Max Homa are just some of those that will have to return – and improve – during the FedEx Cup Fall series.

As for the top 70, there’s now three events for them to earn some big money and write their name into the echelons of prior FedEx Cup champions.

The action gets underway with the St. Jude Championship this week, with TPC Southwind on hosting duties for a field jampacked with talent – in fact, Rory McIlroy is the only player (at the time of writing) inside the top-70 to have turned down their invitation. 

So what can the field expect in Memphis, Tennessee? TPC Southwind is a fairly long Par 70 at 7,250 yards, with plenty of water hazards to keep the players honest. There’s doglegging fairways with thin landing zones, while the small Bermuda greens tend to run at a good pace too.

So there’s challenges, for sure, which is perhaps why world-class fields have only taken the track for mid-teens under par in recent years. A hot and sultry weather forecast for Memphis would suggest that the layout will play firm and fast this week, which should again keep a lid on the scoring.

Three of the last five winners at TPC Southwind are major champions, while the other two – Abraham Ancer and Will Zalatoris – looked as though they were heading for the top before their respective careers fell off a cliff, for varying reasons.

So only the classiest of operators are unlikely to contend at TPC Southwind this week, so who can make a run at the trophy at long odds? 

Hopefully, one of these five guys that cap our St. Jude Championship sleeper report can do exactly that:

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Maverick McNealy – 50/1 – A closing round of 64 at TPC Southwind 12 months ago confirms what the potential upside might be from a Maverick McNealy ticket this week.

His career is on the uptick, regularly mixing it out now with the best in the business – he’s finished 37th or better in all four majors this year, as well as top-fives in three different Signature Events.

A solid tee-to-green campaigner that is more than capable of putting the lights out, McNealy represents value at 50/1 given what we know about his game and aptitude for TPC Southwind.

Daniel Berger – 50/1 – It’s been a long time since Daniel Berger competed at TPC Southwind; injuries and a loss of form preventing him from reaching the FedEx Cup playoffs.

Before that? His formline at this track reads 5-2-MC-1-1.

So this is a horses-for-courses style pick, although it should be noted how good Berger has been in 2025. Two finishes of T3 or better – in high grade events at the Phoenix Open and RBC Heritage – are the highlights, but there’s been stacks of consistency all round.

Even if he appears to have dropped off late in the summer, Berger is still competing at a high level – T30 at the British Open last time out, T33 at the PGA Championship, and T46 at the U.S. Open, with meaty approach play gains and plenty of fairways found.

Can this class act find joy at a happy hunting ground?

Chris Gotterup – 55/1 – Although this will be Chris Gotterup’s debut at TPC Southwind, it has been a season of firsts in his breakthrough year.

He won the Myrtle Beach Classic in 2024, but with all due respect that pales in comparison to his victory at the Scottish Open in July, where Gotterup bested a world-class field in Links conditions that are likely to have been unfamiliar to him.

You wouldn’t say that TPC Southwind would be the ideal venue for his power game, but last year’s stats here suggest that you can send it off the tee, miss fairways, and still compile a winning score – the sort of tactic that took Gotterup to T3 at the British Open in his penultimate outing, which is his best-ever performance.

Denny McCarthy – 60/1 – The wait goes on for a Denny McCarthy PGA TOUR victory… but then the same was said of Cameron Young up until last week at the Wyndham.

It’s true that Young is a better player than McCarthy, but Denny takes great delight in teeing it up at TPC Southwind: T9 here last year – when he shared the lead after 36 holes, with rounds of 63 and 66 – adding to his impressive formline at the venue.

Playing in the final group on Sunday at the Genesis Championship, plus T8 and T14 turns at the PGA Championship and PLAYERS Championship, confirms that McCarthy can mix it with the best in the business. He’s just a trophy shy of really proving it…

Brian Harman – 80/1 – There’s a certain symmetry to Brian Harman’s pivot from the Links Swing into the FedEx Cup.

Quite simply, when he plays well at the British Open, the leftie tends to fare nicely at TPC Southwind too. In 2022, he finished T6 at the British Open and then T3 at the St Jude. In 2023, he lifted the Claret Jug before finishing T31 in the St Jude; albeit, gaining strokes on the field off the tee and on approach.

The aberration came last year, when a lowly finish on the Links was followed by a so-so effort at TPC Southwind, so Harman’s T10 finish at the British Open just a couple of weeks ago – backed by precise fairway and green finding – surely bodes well.

Finishes of T3 and T6 at TPC Southwind also reveal Harman’s potential upside at the venue, too.

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