2017 FedEx St. Jude Classic Benefiting St. Jude

St. Jude Women’s Club Patient Golf-A-Round
1 – 2:30 p.m.
St. Jude Campus – Danny Thomas ALSAC Pavilion

Visuals: Tournament players will visit St. Jude and participate in miniature golf with patients. This event is closed to the public – media should RSVP with contact above.

St. Jude Jam
7 p.m.
Memphis Cook Convention Center

Featuring Montgomery Gentry, American country music duo legends; Clare Dunn, new country artist; John Elefante, former lead singer for Kansas; Danny Seraphine, drummer for Chicago; Kim Carnes, best known for “Bette Davis Eyes”; Mike Mills, bassist for R.E.M.

Limited availability: Media must RSVP with contact below.

Little Loopers Honorary Caddie Experience
7 a.m. – 12 p.m.
11^th Hole

Visuals: St. Jude patients will serve as “Little Looper caddies” for professional player on the 11^th hole during Pro-Am play.

PGA TOUR Wives Association Patient Art Party, presented by Tumi
10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
ALSAC/St. Jude 18^th green Hospitality Suite, TPC Southwind

Visuals: Wives of participating players host an art party for patients of St. Jude. This event is closed to the public -- media should RSVP with contact above.

Purple Eagle FedEx Plane Naming
12:30 - 1 p.m.
Plane will be located between the driving range and main Clubhouse.

Visuals: FedEx will honor a special selected St. Jude patient who is also the child of a FedEx employee by naming a Cessna Caravan in the patient’s honor. St. Jude and FedEx executives will speak, and patient will participate in the unveiling.

Seersucker Sunday
2 – 5 p.m.
TCP Southwind

St. Jude patients serve as 18^th green Pin Flag Caddies and later participate in the trophy presentation, adorned in seersucker attire to recognize the champions’ Brooks Brothers seersucker jacket. 

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food – because all a family should worry about is helping their child live. Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to 80 percent since we opened more than 50 years ago. St. Jude is working to drive the overall survival rate for childhood cancer to 90 percent. We won't stop until no child dies from cancer. St. Jude freely shares the discoveries it makes, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children. Learn more about us.