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BMW Championship: Past Winners, Stats & History

BMW Championship
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The three tournament, FedEx Cup playoffs continue here with the BMW Championship, which is played the week after the Northern Trust. Only the top 70 in the FedEx Cup rankings get a place in the field for the BMW Championship. This will be further whittled down following this tournament to the top thirty who will compete in the Tour Championship where the FedEx Cup winner for this season will be crowned.

The BMW Championship was introduced in 2007, taking over from the Western Open which had been running since 1899.

Due to the format of the FedEx Playoffs, the BMW Championship field is packed with golf’s superstars, with past winners including Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Zach Johnson who are all winners of multiple majors.

Quick Facts

Course Location Length Prize Money
Olympia Fields Country Club Olympia Fields, Illinois 7,343 yards $20,000,000

BMW Championship Recent Winners

Year Winner To Par Winning Margin Course
2022 Patrick Cantlay -14 1 Stroke Wilmington Country Club
2021 Patrick Cantlay -27 Playoff Caves Valley Golf Club
2020 Jon Rahm -4 Playoff Olympia Fields Country Club
2019 Justin Thomas -25 3 Strokes Medinah Country Club
2018 Keegan Bradley -20 Playoff Aronimink Golf Club
2017 Marc Leishman -23 5 Strokes Conway Farms Golf Club
2016 Dustin Johnson -23 3 Strokes Crooked Stick Golf Club
2015 Jason Day -22 6 Strokes Conway Farms Golf Club
2014 Billy Horschel -14 2 Strokes Cherry Hills Country Club
2013 Zach Johnson -16 2 Strokes Conway Farms Golf Club
2012 Rory McIlroy -20 2 Strokes Crooked Stick Golf Club
2011 Justin Rose -13 2 Strokes Cog Hill Golf & Country Club
2010 Dustin Johnson -9 1 Stroke Cog Hill Golf & Country Club
2009 Tiger Woods -19 8 Strokes Cog Hill Golf & Country Club
2008 Camilo Villegas -15 2 Strokes Bellerive Country Club
*2007 Tiger Woods -22 2 Strokes Cog Hill Golf & Country Club
*2006 Trevor Immelman -13 2 Strokes Cog Hill Golf & Country Club
*2005 Jim Furyk -14 2 Strokes Cog Hill Golf & Country Club
*2004 Stephen Ames -10 2 Strokes Cog Hill Golf & Country Club
*2003 Tiger Woods -21 5 Strokes Cog Hill Golf & Country Club

*Tournament played as the Western Open

About the BMW Championship

BMW Championship
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The BMW Championship is viewed by many fans of golf as one of the most exciting events on the PGA Tour calendar. This tournament has grown from strength to strength since taking over from the Western Open in 2007.

The BMW Championship has been held at various courses across the USA since the first, though Illinois has hosted eight of the 13 tournaments since 2007. The 2020 tournament is set to take place at Olympia Fields in Illinois.

The BMW Championship is the second of three playoff events for the FedEx Cup, preceded by the Northern Trust and followed by the Tour Championship. Prior to becoming the BMW-sponsored competition in 2007, the event was known as the Western Open from 1899 to 2006. Scotsman Willie Smith won the first, and South African Trevor Immelman won the final Western Open in 2006 when he held off the joint challenge of Mathew Goggin and Tiger Woods by two strokes.

Bolt from the Blue

This tournament has thrown up a number of memorable moments over the years, but none more so than the incident in the 1975 Western Open in Illinois. Lee Trevino and Jerry Heard were sitting under an umbrella near the 13th hole at Butler National in Oak Brook, with horrendous weather conditions suspending play.

The pair were struck by lighting on the course, with a second bolt striking Bobby Nichols and a bystander. Both Trevino and Heard had to undergo back surgery due to the burn marks they suffered.

Woods Ties with Hagen in 2009

In the 2009 BMW Championship, Tiger Woods ran out a comfortable winner at Cog Hill Golf and Country Club, finishing eight strokes ahead of Jim Furyk and Marc Leishman. Woods also won the first BMW Championship after it was rebadged in 2007.

Woods’ win in 2009 was his fifth BMW Championship success (including Western Opens), equalling Walter Hagen’s record in the process. Hagen was very successful in the 1920s and 30s, winning the Western Open in 1916, 1921, 1926, 1927 and 1932.

Hagen versus Woods (Western Open & BMW Championship)

Year Walter Hagen v Tiger Woods
1916 Walter Hagen (Western Open)
1921 Walter Hagen (Western Open)
1926 Walter Hagen (Western Open)
1927 Walter Hagen (Western Open)
1932 Walter Hagen (Western Open)
1997 Tiger Woods (Motorola Western Open)
1999 Tiger Woods (Motorola Western Open)
2003 Tiger Woods (100th Western Open presented by Golf Digest)
2007 Tiger Woods (BMW Championship)
2009 Tiger Woods (BMW Championship)

Verplank’s Amateur Success

Scott Verplank had a reasonably successful career in golf, picking up seven professional wins. However, his Western Open victory as an amateur and member of the Oklahoma State golf team in 1985 will be one of his most memorable tournament wins.

Verplank played some excellent golf, taking Jim Dent to a playoff at Butler National Golf Club. The Texas man then won the playoff to become the first amateur to win on Tour since Doug Sanders did it in 1956 when he won the Canadian Open.

Day’s Time to Shine

BMW Championship
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After opening with scores 61 and 63 in the first two rounds respectively, Jason Day looked destined to win the 2015 BMW Championship from the start. Of course, Day went on to win the trophy in emphatic style, finishing six strokes ahead of Daniel Berger at Conway Farms Golf Club and in truth he rarely looked in much trouble of blowing it after the opening rounds.

Day had a year to remember in 2015. As a result of his BMW Championship victory, the Australian ace went on to become the number one player in the Golf World Rankings for the first time. He also won the US PGA Championship that year, which at the time of writing is his only Major success.

Rory’s 2012 Triumph

Rory McIlroy has won many competitions and tour events during his career, but his one and only BMW Championship success came in 2012. A year after Justin Rose became the first British winner of this competition in the new format (and the first since Harry Cooper’s Western Open victory in 1934), Northern Irishman McIlroy came out on top at Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel, Indiana.

Rory edged out fellow Brit Lee Westwood and American great Phil Mickelson to win the 2012 BMW Championship by two strokes. McIlroy, the top-ranked golfer at the time of the tournament, hit a score of 67 in the final round to seal the crown against an extremely talented field. He also won the US PGA Championship that year

Since the tournament became the BMW Championship, prior to the 2020 renewal, it has been won by American golfers on eight occasions, with two wins for Aussies (Marc Leishman in 2017 and Jason Day in 2015), two Brits (Rory McIlroy in 2012, Justin rose in 2011), and a Columbian (Camilo Villegas, who won by two strokes from Dudley Hart in 2008).

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