BMW Championship Winners and History

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
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