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2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship | Tournament Preview & Picks To Win

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John Haselbauer argues that if you object to Rory McIlroy skipping the opener, you have a problem with the playoff system itself.

1. The Preferred Lines Podcast previews the 2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship at a renovated TPC Southwind in Memphis, after Cam Young's first PGA Tour win at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro. 2. Joe Idoni (@Torpix) hosts with John Haselbauer, who runs the PGA Tout account and a BestSpurts model that the hosts promote with the code "lines" for 25% off. 3. The episode starts from John's failed Wyndham call, with Nico Echavarria as his top pick and a witch hired from Etsy, and then turns to playoff structure and course fit. 4. John ranks his Ryder Cup picks, ruling out Patrick Reed and Daniel Berger, saying Wyndham Clark has played his way back on, and placing Cam Young, Chris Gotterup and Ben Griffin at spots 10 to 12. 5. On Rory McIlroy skipping the opener, which leaves 69 players, John calls it a bye-week situation and suggests moving the event from August in Memphis to the Northeast Northern Trust model. 6. Joe cites Xander Schauffele's 14 PGA Tour starts, Scheffler's 16 and Russell Henley's 15 this year, arguing that stars are skipping events as signature-event points accumulate. 7. The hosts agree that 70 is the right size for the first-leg field, though Joe dislikes the word "playoffs" because top players can skip the early round without being eliminated. 8. John describes the renovation as new greens rather than a re-route, with under 50 yards of added length, a 3-inch Bermuda rough half an inch longer than last year, and a design that rewards approach play and putting over driving distance. 9. John names TPC Scottsdale and the Stadium Course as comps and says the course favors fearless iron players like Hideki Matsuyama, last year's winner, who ranks in the top 10 of his model despite poor driving numbers. 10. Fans of golf betting, DFS models and Ryder Cup debate will get the most from this episode.

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