2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship second round postponed until Saturday morning

Accuweather satellite map of the Memphis area at 5:48 p.m. ET.

Tommy Fleetwood watches his drive after teeing off on the first hole during the second round of the 2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis.

Kurt Kitayama celebrates with caddie Daniel Kitayama after winning the 3M Open golf tournament.

Day 2 at the 2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind has come to an early end as inclement weather has rolled into the Memphis area. The first stage of the FedEx Cup Playoffs will see its second round be finished on Saturday morning, with the third round starting up soon thereafter.

The par-70, 7,288-yard course is hosting the top 69 golfers in the FedEx Cup standings (Rory McIlroy took the week off). That includes the tournament's defending champion Hideki Matsuyama. He shot 1-under 69 on Thursday and is T-27. No one has repeated at TPC Southwind since Daniel Berger did so in 2016-17.

Get caught up on the action Friday right here with leaderboard updates, highlights, tee times, scores and more.

2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship scores, tee times

You can see the complete St. Jude leaderboard here. This is what the top of the board looked like when the second round was suspended for the day.

FedEx St. Jude Championship's second round postponed until Saturday

The PGA Tour has announced at 5:19 p.m. local time (6:19 p.m. ET) on Friday that the second round at TPC Southwind has been postponed and will resume at 7:30 a.m. local time (8:30 a.m. ET) on Saturday.

The third round will then tee off from 9:50 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. local time off on the 1st and 10th tees in threesomes. Inclement weather has rolled into the Memphis area and while the golf course seems to be holding up, there were several reports of lightning in the area.

Second round still in a delay at TPC Southwind

Accuweather satellite shows heavy storms still in the area, about an hour and 25 minutes after play was suspended.

Second round suspended by inclement weather

At 4:31 p.m. ET, tournament officials suspended play with 21 of the 69 golfers still on the golf course. There is no immediate word when play will resume but dark skies near the tournament were shown during the telecast. There were reports of lightning south of TPC Southwind.

First-round leader Akshay Bhatia posts 'boring' 1-under 69

Bhatia blitzed TPC Southwind on Thursday to the tune of a 62. On Friday, he managed just a 1-under 69 but it was enough to put him in a two-way tie for second at 9 under with Collin Morikawa after 36 holes.

"It was definitely boring making a lot of pars. It was definitely a frustrating round, but again, I feel like I played good enough yesterday, and a round like today is okay, and the wind was pretty tricky out there," he said. "I wasn't super sharp with everything, but I had a couple nice up-and-downs, and I'm just looking forward to getting some rest and going at it again tomorrow."

Tommy Fleetwood posts 64, leads by 4 shots

Fleetwood came oh-so-close to his first PGA Tour win at the Travelers back in June. Will this be the week he finally breaks through? Fleetwood closed his first round with four straight birdies and on Friday, he had four straight back-nine birdies again, this time on Nos. 13, 14, 15 and 16. He also had three in a row on the front and when he signed for a 64, he was the clubhouse leader by four shots over Collin Morikawa and Akshay Bhatia.

"Of course, when you shoot two good scores, it's easy to say everything has been going well, but I think for the most part I've been very good off the tee, put myself in position to have a go at the course. My iron play has been good and solid, and I've rolled the ball well.," he said.

A week ago, Cameron Young broke through for his first PGA Tour win. Fleetwood was asked if this was his week.

"We'll see. Happy to put myself in with a chance over the weekend. I think that's exactly where you want to be and keep testing yourself," he said. "It hasn't happened for me yet out on the PGA Tour, but I would much rather be up there and not quite get it done than not there at all, and who knows, maybe this weekend is the weekend and we'll see, and we'll crack on from there. But look forward to tomorrow first."

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FedEx Cup Playoffs projected standings update

With the final group having teed off Friday, let's take a look at some of the movement in the projected playoff standings:

Who's moving up

Akshay Bhatia, up to No. 4 from No. 45

Justin Rose, up to No. 12 from No. 25

Harry Hall, up to No. 22 from No. 44

Bud Cauley, up to No. 24 from No. 53

Rickie Fowler, up to No. 48 from No. 64

Who's moving down

Keegan Bradley, down to No. 15 from No. 10

Corey Conners, down to No. 19 from No. 13

Viktor Hovland, down to No. 34 from No. 26

Sungae Im, down to No. 38 from No. 29

Jake Knapp, down to No. 54 from No. 47

Kurt Kitayama signs for 63, closes in on lead at St. Jude

Kitayama, who won the 3M Open six weeks ago, went low Friday with a 7-under 63. His scorecard did have one bogey but it had six birdies and an eagle as well.

Collin Morikawa joins the fun, climbs inside top 5

Morikawa birdied the third and eagled the ninth on Friday and is 3 under through 12 on the day and 7 under overall. That has also moved him up three spots in the FedEx standings to 16th.

Tommy Fleetwood is hot Friday morning, takes solo lead

Fleetwood is flirting with his first PGA Tour title once again. He was 3 under through six holes in the second round to get to 10 under, the first to get to double digits under par at TPC Southwind this week.

Who's led the FedEx St. Jude after 18 holes?

Akshay Bhatia posted a career-best 62 on Thursday, and he was smoldering down the stretch, closing eagle-birdie-birdie. A few hours later, Tommy Fleetwood made four consecutive birdies on Nos. 15 through 18 and signed for a 63. There's a three-way tie for third at 6 under. The defending FedEx Cup champ, Scottie Scheffler, had one bogey and it came on his last hole so he shot 3-under 67 and is five shots off the lead.

Kurt Kitayama making early charge

Kurt Kitayama came out hot on Friday at the FedEx St. Jude, making three birdies in his first five holes to get to 3 under for the tournament. The 3M Open champ did have a bogey on No. 2, but he drained a 40-foot putt on the fifth hole.

Kitayama entered play at No. 52, meaning he's just outside of the top-50 cut for the BMW Championship, but he's now projected to finish at 46th, which would get him into the next event.

Who's missing? Webb Simpson, who turns 40 today

For a stretch of 14 years, Webb Simpson was a fixture at the FedEx Cup Playoffs, winning the Deutsche Bank Championship in 2011, a season in which he held the lead of the FedEx Cup standings heading into the final event, finishing second to Bill Haas.

Simpson hasn't qualified for the playoffs in each of the last three seasons, however, and he finished 169th in the FedEx Cup standings this year.

The former No. 4 player in the world has slipped a step or two, but he made the cut in four of his last five starts this season.

Today, the Raleigh, North Carolina, native turns 40 years old.

Who made moves in the positive direction in the projected playoff standings?

Rickie Fowler, for one, made a strong move up and into the top 50. He's at No. 48 and among the 10 golfers now just inside or just outside the top-50 cutoff for next week's BMW Championship.

• Read more from Adam Schupak on the bubble watch here.

Friday's hole locations

Here are the hole locations for Friday's second round:

Where to watch, listen to the 2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship

Second round, Friday, Aug. 8

• Golf Channel, 2 p.m. ET to 6 p.m. ET (watch for free on Fubo)
• PGA Tour Live on ESPN+, 8 a.m. ET to 6 p.m. ET
• ESPN Bet, 11 a.m. ET to 2 p.m. ET
• PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM, 12 p.m. ET to 6 p.m. ET

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What is the cut at the FedEx St. Jude Championship?

There is no 36-hole cut but come Sunday night, there will be a cut from the top 70 to the top 50. Only those golfers advance to next week's BMW Championship. After that, only the top 30 will make the Tour Championship.

What are the tee times for Friday's second round?

What is the prize money at the FedEx St. Jude Championship?

The total purse in Memphis is $20 million. The tournament champion will bank $3.6 million. Those numbers are the same as the eight signature events on the PGA Tour.

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: 2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship second round postponed until Saturday morning

Reporting by Todd Kelly and Tim Schmitt, Golfweek / Golfweek

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