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Open champion and world No.1 Scottie Scheffler is the man to beat as the PGA Tour heads to TPC Southwind for the first of the FedEx Cup play-off events, the FedEx St Jude Championship.
Hideki Matsuyama is the defending champion but it's Scheffler who dominates the betting as a 14/5 shot.
However, here are three more of the game's top players who could at the very least make the places in Memphis come Sunday night.
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The most consistent player in the game not called Scottie Scheffler? Well, that has to be Russell Henley, who should be on anyone's shortlist this week.
Henley has ghosted into the world's top 10 this year and currently finds himself at No.5.
Henley finished fourth at last year's Tour Championship and has used that performance as the catalyst for a stunning year which has featured a stunning record of nine top-10 finishes.
The last four of those have been in his last four events, culminating in a T10 at Royal Portrush in The Open Championship.
The 36-year-old has won this year - he got up at the Arnold Palmer at Bay Hill - and finishes of sixth and seventh at Southwind previously show he can plot his way round the 7,244 yards, par 70 lay-out as well as anyone.
He is accurate, his putting has improved immeasurably, and his relative lack of length off the tee shouldn't be an issue here.
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Aaron Rai's return to Britain didn't go quite as planned with modest efforts at the Scottish Open and Open Championship, but this adopted son of Jacksonville showed there is nothing wrong with his game back in the States.
Rai played beautifully at last week's Wyndham Championship, shooting 63-66-69-68 for a tie for fifth behind runaway winner Cam Young.
Rai, a very respectable eight under par last year at TPC Southwind to earn a cheque for T16, has had five top-15s on Tour this year.
He isn't the longest off the tee but that is less of a concern around this track than his accuracy - ranked overall two on that metric.
Also Rai’s strokes gained tee to green numbers - T18 - are far more persuasive.
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If momentum is a factor you like ahead of a golf pick, then Chris Kirk warrants a second look.
Kirk was having a largely forgettable season until the tour headed to Oakmont for the US Open in mid-June.
There, in brutal conditions, Kirk shot nothing worse than a 73 to finish T12 and he hasn't looked back.
A son of Tennessee, 'Captain' Kirk lost in a play-off at the Rocket Classic, finished 14th at the 3M Open, where he was fifth at halfway, and then finally finished fifth last week at the Wyndham Championship to stamp his ticket to the play-offs.
He's a massive price but the 9/2 on offer that he makes the top 10 reflects how well he has been playing over the last couple of months.