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The Western Golf Association, which founded and ran the Western Open, runs the BMW Championship. In 2012, 2013, and 2014, the PGA Tour named the BMW Championship its Tournament of the Year. [1] The BMW Championship is the longest running regular PGA Tour event on the calendar outside of the four major tournaments.
In 2021, the Rolex Series was reduced to four tournaments; the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, the Scottish Open, the BMW PGA Championship and the season-ending DP World Tour Championship, Dubai. The four events did have increased prize funds up to $8 million however. [5] The Dubai Desert Classic was added to the series for the 2022 season. [6]
At age 43, 2013 marked the first time since 1999 that Pride was fully exempt on the PGA Tour. Pride was unable to follow up on his 2012 season and spent much of 2014 and 2015 on the Web.com Tour. He nearly regained his PGA Tour card during the 2014 Web.com Tour Finals, but missed the cut in the last event and finished outside the Top 50.
Two players played their way out of the Tour Championship: Kyle Stanley (30 to 31) by finishing T-34, and Bill Haas (28 to 32) by finishing T-45. [8] Haas was the defending FedEx Cup champion and this was the sixth straight year that the defending champion failed to make the Tour Championship. [ 8 ]
Here’s how much Bradley and the rest of the field earned this week at the BMW Championship. BMW Championship prize money, payouts. 1. Keegan Bradley — $3.6 million
The BMW Championship was played September 6–9. 70 players were eligible to play but three of them did not enter. There was no cut for this tournament. Tiger Woods won by shooting −22. This was Tiger's 60th win on the PGA Tour. The top 30 players in the points standings advanced to The Tour Championship.
Bradley, after starting at No. 50 in the FedEx Cup standings, held on late on Sunday to grab a one-shot win at the BMW Championship at Castle Pines Golf Club outside of Denver.
The BMW PGA Championship has usually been played each May, on the weekend of the UK's Spring Bank Holiday, over the West Course at the Wentworth Club in Surrey, England. The PGA European Tour has its headquarters at the club and as the tour's home tournament, the BMW PGA Championship is often regarded as the flagship event on the European Tour.