With a change of sponsor in 2019, the tournament became titled as the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational and was relocated to at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee.

As a part of the sponsorship agreement, the event continued to be held at the South Course of Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio.

From 1976 through 1998, the PGA Tour event at Firestone Country Club was the "World Series of Golf," and was sponsored by NEC beginning in 1984.

In 1976, it became a 72-hole, $300,000 PGA Tour event and its field was initially expanded to twenty;[8] the victory and $100,000 winner's share went to Nicklaus.

The field consisted of the winners of all the high status men's professional golf tournaments around the world in the previous twelve months.