St. Jude JAM presented by Delta Dental of TN and HH Global

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St. Jude JAM presented by Delta Dental of TN and HH Global

About FedEx St. Jude Championship

In 1960, the second annual Memphis Open golf tournament presented Danny Thomas, founder of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®, with a check for $600. That money contributed to the opening of St. Jude two years later in 1962. In 1970, St. Jude became the sole beneficiary of the tournament, which was renamed the Danny Thomas Memphis Classic.

Federal Express became the first corporate title sponsor in 1986, and since its inception, the Memphis PGA Tour stop has generated more than $60 million dollars to benefit the lifesaving mission of St. Jude: Finding cures. Saving children®.

In 2022, with the tournament being elevated to a FedExCup Playoffs event, it will bring international awareness that is even more invaluable for the global mission of St. Jude. Support from the FedEx St. Jude Championship helps advance the ongoing six-year $12.9 billion St. Jude strategic plan that more than triples global investments to help more of the 400,000 kids around the world with cancer each year.

During the tournament week, patient families have the chance to meet, engage with some of the best golfers in the world and celebrity supporters. Thanks to the generosity of our donors and partners like FedEx, PGA Tour and NBC Sports, families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food so all they have to worry about is helping their child live.

About St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Our purpose is clear: Finding cures. Saving children. ®

When St. Jude opened in 1962, childhood cancer was largely considered incurable. Since then, St. Jude has helped push the overall survival rate from 20% to more than 80%, and we won't stop until no child dies from cancer.

St. Jude cares for some of the world’s sickest children regardless of their race, ethnicity, beliefs or ability to pay. Our patients receive the customized care they need to treat childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases, no matter what barriers they may face.

Every child deserves a chance to live their best life and celebrate every moment. When you support St. Jude, you can help make cures possible for kids with cancer. Together, we can save more lives.

Because of your support, we can provide children cutting-edge treatments not covered by insurance, at no cost to families.

Soon after Micah started kindergarten in fall 2022, his mom noticed he looked especially pale. She chalked that up to his time in the classroom and the cooler weather. “You don’t think ‘My child has pale skin. It must be cancer,’” said Rebeccah. But that’s exactly what it was.

In the following weeks, Micah, then 5, became listless, often putting himself to bed for naps. He ran intermittent fevers during Thanksgiving week and then, alarmingly, had a series of nosebleeds. A call to the pediatrician led to a trip to urgent care and then the local children’s hospital where tests revealed Micah had leukemia. Micah was referred to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®. Micah arrived at St. Jude by ambulance in the middle of the night. Even so, a St. Jude team was waiting on the family.

“It was both overwhelming and really comforting because as soon as they pulled him into the room, several people came in and just started working,” said Rebeccah. “They were all in just like perfect fluidity just doing everything all at once. I felt safer and more confident, even in my shocked state.” Micah had hard days as his chemotherapy treatment plan began, but normal things such as being able to attend school at the St. Jude Imagine Academy by Chili’s and play time with his younger brother helped his morale.

Before long, questions like, “Mommy, why did this happen to me?” turned into statements like “Mommy, I’m going to help other kids when I’m older.” “He has the most generous, precious heart for people and for kids, and he makes me just want to be a better person myself,” said Rebeccah.

Micah, now 7, got a piggy bank for Christmas and has been saving money to give to St. Jude to help other kids. The rising second grader says he wants to be a St. Jude nurse one day.