BMW Championship PGA Tour 2020-2021 0 2021-08-29 2021-08-29 https://www.thesportsdb.com/images/media/event/thumb/ludfo41612024577.jpg https://www.thesportsdb.com/images/media/event/poster/n459pn1612024565.jpg The BMW Championship is a professional golf tournament which is the penultimate FedEx Cup playoff event on the PGA Tour schedule. Introduced in 2007, the BMW Championship was previously known as the Western Open. 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. The BMW Championship is open to the top 70 PGA Tour golfers following The Northern Trust. With only seventy players in the field, there is no 36-hole cut. FedEx Cup points amassed during the regular PGA Tour season and then during The Northern Trust determine the participants. The top 30 FedEx Cup points leaders following the BMW Championship advance to final playoff event, The Tour Championship, where the FedEx Cup Champion will be determined. The event takes place Aug 26-29 and has a prize fund of $9,500,000 Patrick Cantlay made a birdie on the sixth playoff hole to win a dramatic playoff against Bryson DeChambeau, and win the 2021 BMW Championship. DeChambeau and Cantlay finished 72 holes at -27, four shots ahead of Sungjae Im and five ahead of Rory McIlroy The top 30 players in the Fed Ex Cup standings after this event move on to next week's Tour Championship at East Lake in Atlanta. 1082758