BMW CHAMPIONSHIP
Notes: The second FedEx Cup playoff event is for the top 50 players. The top 30 after this week advance to the Tour Championship, where the winner claims the FedEx Cup and a $10 million prize in official money. … Scottie Scheffler is $1,034,756 away from overtaking Tiger Woods on the PGA Tour career earnings list. … Bellerive last hosted the 2018 PGA Championship won by Brooks Koepka. It lasted hosted the BMW Championship in 2008. … Sungjae Im was the only player who moved into the top 50. He has made it to the BMW Championship every year since he was a rookie in 2019. … Seventeen players in the field also played Bellerive in the 2018 PGA Championship. … Notes: The purse was reduced from $20 million to $10.1 million on LIV’s media hub. … 4Aces, Ripper, Crushers and Legion XIII are separated by 13.5 points going into the final team event. … The 12 events on the LIV schedule are the fewest since there were eight events during the inaugural season that began in June 2022. … 11-13 matches in the Netherlands. … The Canadian Women’s Open took over for the du Maurier Classic in 2001 when it lost its LPGA major status over tobacco sponsorship regulations in Canada. The tournament dates to 1973. … In 2018, she became the first Canadian winner since Jocelyne Bourassa in 1973. … Royal Mayfair last hosted the tournament in 2013 when Lydia Ko won for the second straight time, both years as an amateur. … Reed leads the Race to Dubai over Rory McIlroy by 308 points. The field has four players from the top 100 in the world, led by Reed at No. 32. … Lee are in the field from finishing among the top 200 in the FedEx Cup on the PGA Tour last year. Notes: Stewart Cink won for the fifth time this year, making him the first player with at least five PGA Tour Champions titles in one season since Steve Stricker in 2023. He has four victories in his first season on the PGA Tour Champions, but he trails Cink on the Charles Schwab Cup points list by more than $1 million. … 14 in the Schwab Cup. … Canyon Meadows is about 3,500 feet above sea level. … The tournament dates to 2013. Richard Green of Australia last year and Carlos Franco of Paraguay in 2016 are the only non-Americans to win the Rogers Charity Classic.
Last week: Scottie Scheffler won the FedEx St. Scheffler now has won all three postseason tournaments. … Sebastian Munoz won last year in a playoff over Rahm. … Scott McCarron won in consecutive years and remains the only player to have won the tournament more than once. …
Because the Michigan team championship has been canceled, this is the final event of the LIV Golf season. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the tournament was first played in 2020 as part of a refigured schedule. FedEx Cup leader: Scottie Scheffler. Jude Championship. Matt McCarty got the final spot at Bellerive by seven points over Keith Mitchell. … The BMW Championship currently is the only postseason event that rotates. It will go to Liberty National in New Jersey next year. LIV Golf Indianapolis will serve as the individual and team championship, although Jon Rahm has already wrapped up the individual title for the third straight year. … Lucas Herbert, Joaquin Niemann and Tyrrell Hatton are in the running to finish third in the individual points race . … Rahm was seen playing at National Golf Links on Long Island during the week off after LIV Golf New York. … The last three LIV Golf events have been wire-to-wire victories by Niemann at Trump Bedminster, Herbert in the U.K. and Hatton in Spain. Notes: This is the final week of qualifying for Americans to make the Solheim Cup team for the Sept. Jeeno Thitikul joined Nelly Korda as the only players with three LPGA victories this year. Two of the wins for Korda are majors. … Brooke Henderson is a two-time winner of the tournament. Nelly Korda is in the field after taking off last week in Portland. … Haeran Ryu, who joined Korda as a two-time major winner this year, is not playing this week. Notes: Patrick Reed is playing for the first time since he tied for 46th in the British Open. McIlroy is not expected to play on the European tour until the Irish Open next month. … John Daly II, the son of two-time major champion John Daly, is in the field. He has played twice on the Korn Ferry Tour this year and the Puerto Rico Open on the PGA Tour. This is his first European tour start. … The British Masters next week is expecting more LIV Golf players now that LIV’s final team championship has been canceled. … Matthieu Pavon and K.H. Both are former PGA Tour winners. … He is not playing this week in Canada. … Three of Cink’s nine career victories have been in playoffs. … Zach Johnson is in the field. Soren Kjeldsen of Denmark finished third last week at the Boeing Classic for his best finish of the year. It moved him up six spots to No.
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