Memphis golf centers on TPC Southwind, the longtime home of the FedEx St. Jude Championship and a PGA Tour staple defined by water, Bermuda, and late-summer heat. The tournament’s charitable tie to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital gives Memphis a golf identity that is both competitive and deeply civic—Tour golf as fundraising theater. Memphis Country Club and other private clubs uphold an older Southern tradition across the city’s wooded east side.
Delta humidity and heat shape strategy and scheduling; early tee times are survival tactics in July and August. The city’s golf culture blends blues-and-barbecue hospitality with serious tournament infrastructure, making Memphis feel like a Tour town in a way few mid-South cities can claim.