David Toms carded a two-over-par 73 but still cruised to an easy six-shot victory at the FedEx St Jude Classic and became the third player to successfully defend the title at Memphis.

The 37-year-old picked up his 10th career PGA title as he joined Dave Hill (1969-70) and Lee Trevino (1971-72) as repeat winners of this event.

"It was a great week for me," said Toms, whose margin of victory matched the largest on Tour this year.

"I came here hoping to play well but my results lately haven't been very good. This makes me feel a lot better about my golf game, about myself."

Toms began the day with a seven-stroke lead, and had an up-and-down round with five bogeys and three birdies.

But his 72-hole score of 268 was six shots better than Bob Estes and nine ahead of Steve Lowery and Tim Herron.

"Even though I was a couple over par, I felt like I was still pretty much in control of what I was doing," Toms said. "I didn't lose any focus."

Estes carded a 69 but was just one under over his final 13 holes.

Lowery had a bogey-free 67 while Herron bogeyed the 18th, which cost him a tie for second.

First-round leader Vaughn Taylor shot a final-round 74 and finished tied for eighth - his best showing ever on Tour.

Collated final totals (USA unless stated, par 71):

268 David Toms 67 63 65 73

274 Bob Estes 74 64 67 69

275 Tim Herron 72 64 69 70, Steve Lowery 74 64 70 67

276 Vaughn Taylor 66 65 71 74, Brian Gay 71 66 66 73, Fredrik Jacobson (Swe) 75 68 64 69, Stewart Cink 68 70 69 69

277 Craig Bowden 72 68 66 71, Paul Stankowski 67 69 71 70, Hirofumi Miyase (Jpn) 68 69 67 73, Charles Howell III 70 70 68 69

278 Dennis Paulson 72 68 67 71, Joel Kribel 73 65 70 70, Michael Bradley 70 70 67 71, Brian Kortan 75 67 66 70, Michael Allen (Irl) 71 68 70 69

279 Kris Cox 72 67 68 72, Tom Pernice Jnr. 75 68 63 73, Steve Allan (Aus) 70 67 69 73, Loren Roberts 71 71 67 70, John Senden (Aus) 74 69 65 71

280 Ted Purdy 72 64 71 73, Joe Ogilvie 74 69 66 71, Hank Kuehne 73 66 70 71

281 Patrick Sheehan 69 70 70 72, Dan Briggs 74 68 67 72, Billy Andrade 75 67 67 72, Hunter Mahan 73 67 70 71, David Peoples 71 69 68 73, Matt Kuchar 73 66 70 72, Fred Funk 73 68 66 74

282 Rich Beem 73 64 68 77, Brent Geiberger 69 72 74 67, Doug Barron 76 67 67 72, Ben Crane 70 65 73 74, Joel Edwards 73 68 67 74, Notah Begay III 75 65 69 73, Mike Grob 75 67 66 74, Michael Clark II 81 62 70 69, J.P. Hayes 70 71 70 71

283 Robert Gamez 72 71 68 72, John Daly 71 65 72 75, Matt Gogel 72 69 69 73, Cameron Beckman 73 68 70 72, Robert Damron 71 69 69 74

284 Tjaart Van der Walt (Rsa) 72 69 70 73, Ken Duke 74 66 70 74, Lian-Wei Zhang (Chn) 68 72 70 74, Gene Sauers 74 66 69 75, Jim McGovern 75 66 71 72, Brett Quigley 75 68 68 73, Bart Bryant 72 68 69 75

285 Jay Delsing 72 70 67 76, Kirk Triplett 73 69 70 73, Bryce Molder 74 69 69 73, Brian Bateman 73 65 73 74, J J Henry 70 70 71 74

286 Tom Lehman 70 70 71 75

287 David Edwards 73 70 69 75, Brenden Pappas (Rsa) 71 69 71 76, Stan Utley 72 70 69 76

288 Tripp Isenhour 70 67 73 78, Scott Hend (Eng) 73 70 72 73, Jose Coceres (Arg) 74 64 74 76

289 Vance Veazey 71 70 73 75

290 Greg Chalmers (Aus) 70 70 72 78, Pat Perez 72 70 70 78

291 Tom Carter 72 66 74 79

292 Chris Smith 74 69 77 72, Rich Barcelo 70 71 73 78

294 Mike Springer 75 67 72 80, Brandt Snedeker 74 69 76 75

298 Deane Pappas (Rsa) 72 69 74 83