BMW Championship Winners and History
The penultimate tournament of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoff, the BMW Championship replaced the venerable and much respected Western Open on the schedule in 2007. The Western Open was played nearly continuously since 1899 and at one time would have been considered one of golf’s Majors.
The BMW Championship is a limited field event, open to the top 70 players in the FedEx Cup standings, following the Deutsche Bank Championship. The top 30 following the BMW go on to the Tour Championship.
The late, lamented Western Open was played from 1899 – 2006. The tournament was run by the Western Golf Association, which continues to run the BMW Championship. The Western Golf Association, also founded in 1899, is the administrator of the Evans Scholar program.
Interestingly, the Western Golf Association was formed because western golf clubs (midwest and points further) thought they were being ill served by the USGA. It was a rules making body for twenty years in competition with the USGA.
The past winners of the BMW Championship follow:
Year | Player | Score | To par | Margin |
2024 | Keegan Bradley | 276 | -12 | 1 stroke |
2023 | Viktor Hovland | 263 | -17 | 2 strokes |
2022 | Patrick Cantlay (2) | 270 | -14 | 1 stroke |
2021 | Patrick Cantlay | 261 | -27 | Playoff |
2020 | John Rahm | 276 | -4 | Playoff |
2019 | Justin Thomas | 263 | -25 | 3 Strokes |
2018 | Keegan Bradley | 260 | −20 | Playoff |
2017 | Marc Leishman | 261 | −23 | 5 strokes |
2016 | Dustin Johnson (2) | 265 | −23 | 3 strokes |
2015 | Jason Day | 262 | −22 | 6 strokes |
2014 | Billy Horschel | 266 | −14 | 2 strokes |
2013 | Zach Johnson | 268 | −16 | 2 strokes |
2012 | Rory McIlroy | 268 | −20 | 2 strokes |
2011 | Justin Rose | 271 | −13 | 2 strokes |
2010 | Dustin Johnson | 275 | −9 | 1 stroke |
2009 | Tiger Woods (2) | 265 | −19 | 8 strokes |
2008 | Camilo Villegas | 265 | −15 | 2 strokes |
2007 | Tiger Woods | 262 | −22 | 2 strokes |
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Not much history at this stage for the BMW. It looks like it takes a very good player and a low score to win judging the 4 winners so far.
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