St. Jude Classic

St. Jude Classic
Tournament information
Location	Memphis, Tennessee
Established	1958 (1945)
Course(s)	TPC at Southwind
Par	70
Yardage	7,244
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Format	Stroke play
Purse	$5,600,000
Month played	June
Tournament record score
Aggregate	258 John Cook (1996)
To-par	-26 John Cook (1996)
Current champion
	Brian Gay

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This article is about the PGA Tour golf tournament. For the tennis tournament, see Stanford Championships.

The St. Jude Classic is a regular golf tournament on the PGA Tour. It has been played annually in Memphis, Tennessee on the course at the Tournament Players Club at Southwind since 1989.

In 2009, the total purse was $5,600,000, with $1,008,000 going to the winner.

The tournament was founded in 1958 as the Memphis Open and was played annually at Colonial Country Club first in Memphis, then in Cordova, Tennessee until 1989. In 1969, actor Danny Thomas agreed to lend his name to the tournament in exchange for his St. Jude Children's Research Hospital becoming the tournament's charity. Accordingly, the tournament changed its name the next year to the Danny Thomas Memphis Classic. In 1977, President Gerald Ford, who had just left office, hit a hole-in-one at the tournament's Celebrity Pro-Am. The same year, Al Geiberger shot a record 59 (13-under-par) round. In 1989, the event moved from Colonial Country Club to its present location at the TPC at Southwind in Memphis. In 2007, The Stanford Financial Group took over as the tournament's title sponsor, and it was renamed Stanford St. Jude Championship. In 2009, the tournament changed its name to St. Jude Classic^[1] following Stanford's financial difficulties.