FedEx St Jude Championship: Taylor leads Canadians, crowded leaderboard...18 hole results

   PGA Tour : FedEx St. Jude Championship Leaderboard  Tee Times

"It's gonna' be hot and sweaty, Memphis this week, St Louis then Atlanta" Rory McIlroy summed it up best as these 2026 FedEx playoffs got under way on TPC Southwind with the thermometer topping 100*f in the shade, something that never happens at home in Holywood, Northern Ireland.

Rory did himself no favours with a bogey, bogey, double finish for +4 74, second last in the 70 man field, where his Ryder Cup colleague, lefty, Bob MacIntyre had a horrendous 5 bogey, 4 double bogey round +12 82, he must have decided to play right handed !!!

Canadians (FedEx standing)

T26 Nick Taylor -1 6  #64

T37 Sudarshan Yellamaraju E 70   #57, 

T43 Corey Conners +1 71   #60, 

With no wind or bad weather to seperate the men from the boys, the leaderboard is jammed after 18 holes.

1st -5 65  Spieth, Knapp, Kitayama, Thorbjornsen, Kim

T6 -4 66  Matsuyama, Fleetwood, Gotterup, Woodland, Im, Cauley, Scott

America's favourite son, Scott Scheffler is back in a pack of  players at -2 68.

FORMAT

20 players will be going home after this week from the top 70, the new 50 will head to St Louis for the BMW Championship, also another $20,000,000 and a guaranteed place in all 2027 Signature Events.

Expect more of the same today with the weather and the scoring.

Bryan Angus

Frenchman Mory sets course record, Denmark's Bjerregaard in contention, 18 hole results

    DP World Tour: Danish Golf Championship : Entry List  Tee Times

Félix Mory matched the lowest round of his DP World Tour career to take a one-shot lead after day one of the Danish Golf Championship.

The Frenchman overcame consecutive bogeys on the back nine by going birdie-eagle on the 16th and 17th to card a course-record 65 and hit the front on -7

Local hero Lucas Bjerregaard 66 -6 was a shot back alongside South African Brandon Stone 66, one clear of Italian pair Filippo Celli and Francesco Laporta both had -5 67's, as did China's Wenyi Ding, Finn Oliver Lindell and Germany's Freddy Schott.  

HotelPlanner Tour graduate Mory is starting in just his 22nd DP World Tour event and his 65 matches his third-round score from his last start at the ISCO Championship.

The 31-year-old has missed 12 of his 16 cuts so far this season but after making three of his last five, his performance in round one at Great Northern continues a trend that shows he is getting used to Tour life.

"I didn't think it was going to take me so much to adapt to this new tour because I'd played a few years on HotelPlanner Tour and I didn't think it was going to be so different.

"It's more like the vibe is different. The golf is the same, the courses of course are a bit more difficult and test my game a little more

"I struggled a bit with caddies at the start of the year but now I'm pretty confident with who is on my bag. Clubs as well, I had to do a few changes but now I'm getting the rhythm and trying to enjoy it as much as possible."

Starting on the tenth, Bjerregaard got up and down on the 11th and hit pinpoint irons into the 12th, 13th and 16th to quickly move up the leaderboard.

An eagle from six feet on the next had him within one and while he three-putted the 18th, he hit a smart approach into the first and took advantage of the fourth to share the lead.

Missed chances from inside six feet on the fifth and seventh were then compounded by a bogey on the eighth but the two-time DP World Tour winner, who currently only has limited status on Tour, was left to reflect on a good day's work.

"It was a great round," he said. "I drove it really nice, hit some good iron shots, made every putt inside ten feet on my front nine.

"I didn't really know what to expect, I hadn't played for a while. I was a bit nervous about today but it turned out alright. The crowd has always been great to me, especially the last few years. I've had so much support like I did today so I'm looking forward to more of that."

SUMMARY

Earlier, Stone had mixed four birdies with two bogeys before he birdied the 15th and 16th and also eagled the last, crediting an old putter for his upturn in form.

Ding was bogey-free in his 67, while Celli eagled the 17th with a single dropped shot and Laporta carded six birdies and one bogey.

Schott overcame a double in his round, while Lindell went one better, overcoming a triple after finding water twice on the 14th.

There was then a group of eight players on -4 including Major winner Bubba Watson, reigning Volvo China Open champion Bernd Wiesberger and winner of this event in 2015 David Horsey.

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FedEx St. Jude Championship in extreme heat, TEE TIMES including 3 Canadians...

 PGA Tour : FedEx St. Jude Championship Leaderboard  Tee Times

The playoffs are here, the top 70 players who qualified are at TPC Southwind in 100*f of heat in Memphis, $20,000,000 purse with $3.6 first prize, top 50 move on.

Canadians

11.20  Corey Conners #59, Harry Hall #58

11.40  Sudarshan Yellamaraju #57, Sungjae Im #53

1.55   Nick Taylor #63, Michael Kim #61

Notables

9.10  Tommy Fleetwood #9 (defending champion), Jordan Spieth #54

9.30  Rory McIlroy #12, Scott Scheffler #1

12.40 Matt Fitzpatrick #2, Wyndham Clark #4

12.55 Alex Fitzpatrick #19  JJ Spaun #21

1.45  Cam Young #3, Collin Morikawa #6

WEATHER

The forecast dominating the story in Memphis is the extreme heat, sunny at or near 100*f, 38*c, with just a NE breeze 5-11mph.

Bryan Angus

DP World Tour: Danish Open TEE TIMES...Bubba Watson rare appearance

  DP World Tour: Danish Golf Championship : Entry List  Tee Times

The DP World Tour returns to action after a three-week break with the penultimate event of the Closing Swing at the Danish Golf Championship.

 Major champions Henrik Stenson and Bubba Watson will be making a return to action to the delight of the large Danish crowds attending the Great Northern GC which will host its first DP World Tour event this week, following in the footsteps of Himmerland, Silkeborg Ry Golf Club, Lübker Golf Resort and Furesø Golf Klub in staging this event. 

Watson of course won the Masters in spectacular style on the second sudden death playoff hole in 2012, with that big hooked recovery shot from the pine straw on the 10th hole to beat former DP World Tour member Louis Oosthuizen.

In 2022 he tore the meniscus in his knee, and while sidelined joined the upstart LIV as a non playing captain, where he is now GM and captain of the Range Goats GC where he competes and manages his teams roster, while preparing for upcoming starts on the DP World Tour as the future of LIV is uncertain.

Bryan Angus

Rory vies for record 4th Fed Ex Cup title at St Jude Championship

 PGA Tour: FedEx St Jude Championship Field

Rory Mcllroy hasn't played since the Open Championship, but the Grand Slam Champion returns Stateside to Memphis, Tenn., for the 1st event in the PGA Tour playoffs, the $20,000,000 St Jude Championship, on TPC Southwind.

He will be joined by his victorious Ryder Cup team mates, defending champion Justin Rose, recovering from a neck injury, and the defending Fed Ex Cup Champion Tommy Fleetwood.

Rory will be looking for a record 4th Fed Ex Cup Championship, to go with his 7 DP World Tour Champion titles, which he will attempt to make eight in Dubai.

While the DP World Tour members don't conclude their season until mid November, the PGA Tour officially wraps their 2026 season at the Tour Championship August 27-30 to avoid TV conflict with the almighty NFL. 

However there is a PGA Tour Fall Series 6 event schedule where players outside the top 100 have a chance to improve their Fed Ex points status to avoid going to Q School.

Scott Scheffler who rarely travels outside the USA will be in this top 70 man field, which will be reduced to top 50 on Sunday night.

There are 3 Canadians in the field, Corey Conners, Sudarshan Yellamaraju and Nick Taylor.

Bryan Angus 

 

DP World Tour returns to action Danish Golf Championship this week..

 DP World Tour: Danish Golf Championship : Entry List

The DP World Tour returns to action after a three-week break with the penultimate event of the Closing Swing at the Danish Golf Championship. Here is the story.

Back in action

It has been three weeks since Stefano Mazzoli lifted the trophy at the Corales Puntacana Championship and on Thursday the Closing Swing picks back up at Great Northern. 

Todd Clements is the highest-ranked player in the Swing in action this week, with home hero Jacob Skov Olesen also in the top ten. The player that tops the Swing Rankings after next week's Nexo Championship will earn a place in all the events of Phase Two of the season - the Back 9 - and a $US200,000 bonus. 

The highest player in the Rankings not already exempt will also seal a place in the field for the BMW PGA Championship - the third Rolex Series event of the season.

A new venue

Great Northern will host its first DP World Tour event this week, following in the footsteps of Himmerland, Silkeborg Ry Golf Club, Lübker Golf Resort and Furesø Golf Klub in staging this event. 

The course is the passion project of Thomas Kirk Kristiansen, a fourth-generation member of the family behind the Lego Group. 

Developed in 2016 and then opened for play in July 2017, it was purpose-built for championship golf and this week marks the biggest platform for it to be viewed on an international stage. 

Located in Kerteminde - referred to as "the garden by the sea" - on the island of Funen, approximately two hours from Copenhagen, Great Northern becomes the 466th different venue on the DP World Tour since its inception in 1972 and the fifth first-time venue this season. While the Nicklaus Design layout has hosted an event on the ECCO Tour for the past five years, this is an exciting milestone for the venue.

A fond farewell

This week will be the 179th and final DP World Tour start for Alexander Björk, who announced his impending retirement in September of last year. 

A graduate of the HotelPlanner Tour in 2016, after initially plying his trade on the Nordic Golf League, his sole DP World Tour title came at the Volvo China Open in 2018, the same year he reached a career-high 59th on the Official World Golf Ranking. 

Björk finished 11th on the Race to Dubai Rankings in 2023, earning dual membership with the PGA TOUR for 2024. 

Across nine appearances in Major Championships, his best finish came in the 2024 US PGA Championship with a tie for 39th. All the best for what comes next, Alexander.

Home heroes

This event has long been renowned for its bumper crowds and the home fans will have plenty of local talent to cheer for this week. 2023 winner Rasmus Højgaard and fellow Ryder Cupper Thorbjørn Olesen are in action, as is rising star and reigning Australian Open champion Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen. Jacob Skov Olesen is looking to continue his rise, while DP World Tour winners Jeff Winther, Niklas Nørgaard and Lucas Bjerregaard are also in action.

Neergaard-Petersen is not the only 2026 winner on display this week as an elite field gathers in Kerteminde. Eugenio Chacarra has two wins to sit third on the Race to Dubai Rankings, and he is joined by Richard Sterne, Yurav Premlall, Mikael Lindberg, 2019 and 2021 champion Bernd Wiesberger, Jordan Gumberg and Freddy Schott. Major champions Henrik Stenson and Bubba Watson also tee it up, as does Rolex Series winner Paul Waring.

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Michael Brennan hits the jackpot, 3 Canadians advance.. Wyndham Championship Final results

   PGA Tour : Wyndham Championship  Leaderboard  Results

Michael Brennan,  moved into T1 having been near the lead all week 66 65 63 -16 on Saturday. 

Michael Brennan reacts after winning the Wyndham Championship golf tournament in Greensboro, N.C., Sunday, Aug. 9, 2026. (Chuck Burton/AP)

On Sunday he hit the jackpot with 64 -22 to win the Wyndham Championship by 3 shots, and makes the Fed Ex Cup layoffs at #47.

He had come into the playoffs #105 with only one T10 all year. He ran off 5 straight birdies from #4 to take the lead he never relinquished. 

Beau Hossler finished 2nd -19  61 67 66 67, #72.  He misses the playoffs and remains without a win on Tour.

Ben James was 3rd -18  62 67 72 61  #108 he will miss the playoffs.

Young Auburn college standout Jackson Koivun  who beat Scott Scheffler to win the 3M Open squeaked into the playoffs in the #70 spot.

Canadians  Fed Ex Cup Ranking

Summary 

Nick Taylor (63) Corey Conners (59) and Sudarshan Yellamaraju (57) will be the only Canadians advancing to the Fed Ex Cup playoffs.

Taylor Pendrith's card for 2027 at #89 looks secure for the top 100, with the Fall Series still to come after the playoffs.

AJ Ewart at #105 would have conditional status for top 120, but will attend Fall Series to try to advance back into top 100.

Mac Hughes at #118 would have conditional status for top 120 but will play Fall Series to try to advance into top 100.

Adam Svensson #178, Ben Silverman #139, Adam Hadwin #189 are all facing Fall Series, Q School and a season on the Korn Ferry Tour.

THIS WEEK

T29 Mac Hughes -8 68 67 72 65 #118 ( a win, a good week into top 100, stay in top 120, Fall Series)

T38 Taylor Pendrith -7 66 69 74 64 #89 (a win, get into top 70, PGA Tour card for 2027 good so far)

T72 Nick Taylor  -2 69 68 72 69  #63( a win, move up to top 50, 2027 PGA Tour card assured)

MC  Adam Svensson +3  69 74 #178  ( a win, Fall Series, Q School, Korn Ferry Tour)

MC  Ben Silverman E 69 71 #139 (a win, Fall Series, Q School, Korn Ferry Tour)

MC  AJ Ewart -1 71 68   #105 ( a win, stay in top 100 for Tour card, 120 for conditional )

Not playing this week

Corey Conners #59  ( 2027 Tour Card assured, 1st round playoff assured)

Sudarshan Yellamaraju #57  (2027 PGA Tour card assured, 1st round playoff assured)

Adam Hadwin #188  ( Fall Series, Q School, Korn Ferry Tour )

PLAYOFFS

The St Jude Championship (top70) next week in Memphis is worth $20,000,000. 

The Buick Classic (top50) in St Louis is worth $20,000,000

The Tour Championship, East Lake, Atlanta is worth $40,000,000 + bonus

Bryan Angus