Golf Odds - Stanford St. Jude Championship, TPC Southwind
by Brock Murphy
Jeff Maggert (+7000 in the U.S. Open at Oakmont, Pa.. Justin Leonard (+7500) won the tournament in 2005 by a single stroke over David Toms (+1800), thus defying Toms, the 2003 and 2004 winner, the chance to three-peat. Len Mattiace and Bob Estes (+4000) won in 2002 and 2001, respectively.
Maggert has been up and down in his last five tournaments this season, missing one cut, placing 50th or higher twice (The Colonial and 11th in New Orleans’ Zurich Classic.
Following a respectable 10th-place finish at the Verizon Heritage tournament, Pernice has had a rough go of it in his last four outings, missing two cuts and finishing 28th (The Memorial) in the other two.
FedEx Cup points-leader Tiger Woods did not enter the field which includes 2nd-place Vijay Singh (who tied with Woods last weekend at 279 – eight strokes off of Choi’s final tally) at +800. The 3rd-ranked player, Phil Mickelson, dropped out of the Memorial tournament last week after 11 holes due to a wrist injury but was still listed as part of the St. Jude field, favored overall at +750; a recent wrist-MRI was negative. Like Woods, Zach Johnson and Rory Sabbatini (4th and 5th in the FedEx Cup race, respectively) were not entered in the field.
The 6th-ranked player in the cup race,Adam Scott, who won the Shell Houston Open, is entered in the field this weekend and is worth watching at +1200. He’s playing very well of late, finishing in a tie for 5th in The Players Championship and a tie for 6th last weekend at The Memorial.
Veteran Mark Calcavecchia, who won the PODS Championship this year, will be in Memphis this weekend as a +7500 longshot. Calc has had an up and down season of late, finishing fifth in New Orleans at the end of April followed by a missed cut (Players Championship) and a 35th-place (Memorial). He is ranked 12th in the FedEx Cup and a small tournament like this is exactly where he could shine.
Last weekend, K.J. Choi shot a final-round 65 to hold off Ryan Moore and take The Memorial by one-stroke. Kenny Perry and Rod Pampling finished two strokes back and tied for third. Curiously, not one of the four is entered in this weekend’s St. Jude Championship field.
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