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The PGA Tour’s postseason begins this week, and the Top 70 players will rob on Castle Pines Golf Club. The BMW Championship will be reduction within the Denver place for the first time since 2014.
One more $20 million purse is on the toll road this week. Now not to existing, the winner will rob home 2,000 FedEx Cup substances.
Who will manufacture the Top 30 and are accessible in to Spherical 3 of the Playoffs?
Right here are the things to know for the 2d playoff tournament, the BMW Championship.
BMW Championship Files
Where: Castle Pines Golf Club, Castle Rock, CO (Par-72, 8,130 yards)
When: Aug. 22-twenty fifth
Purse: $20 million ($4,000,000— 1st web instruct online)
FedEx Cup substances: 2,000
Defending Champ: Viktor Hovland
Photograph by Stacy Revere/Getty Photos
The Golf Channel and NBC will fragment tv coverage for the 2d playoff tournament at Castle Rock Golf Club in Colorado. There might perhaps be a two-hour time dissimilarity.
Right here is the paunchy agenda:
Thursday, August 22:
3-7 p.m. ET (Golf Channel)
Friday, August 23:
3-7 p.m. ET (Golf Channel)
Saturday, August 24:
1-3 p.m. ET (Golf Channel); 3-6 p.m. ET (NBC)
Sunday, August 25:
12-2 p.m. ET (Golf Channel); 2-6 p.m. ET (NBC)
How one can glide the BMW Championship
The BMW Championship will be on hand online thru ESPN+ and Peacock.
To glide coverage on Peacock, click here.
Featured community coverage will be on hand all four days. Those streaming channels start up at 8 a.m. ET on a normal foundation.
BMW Championship Preview
The 2d of three playoff events is here, and the PGA Tour is in Colorado. The Top 50 players within the FedEx Cup standings will play the 8,130-yard par-72 Castle Pines Golf Club route. Nonetheless, the ball will drag mighty farther, as the route is 6,200 feet above sea level.
Defending champion Viktor Hovland appears to be returning to construct after a rough season of americaand downs with his swing. He tied 2d with Xander Schauffele on the FedEx St. Jude Championship to soar 41 spots within the standings.
Enact now no longer depend him out attributable to Hovland’s getting more consistent. He might perhaps well also ranking reduction-to-reduction BMW Championships. After his efficiency in Memphis, the faded Oklahoma Verbalize Cowboy is trending within the honest route.
Photograph by James Gilbert/PGA TOUR by Getty Photos
Hideki Matsuyama held each guys off to ranking the first playoff tournament. He fell apart on the aid 9 of TPC Southwind, but two birdies at 17 and 18 were enough to ranking his 10th PGA Tour tournament. That victory furthermore pushed him to No. 3 within the substances.
Scottie Scheffler snuck in a Top 5 affect despite now no longer having his simplest. He’s amongst the favorites this week to ranking.
Rory McIlroy appears to rebound from an grisly efficiency in Memphis that saw him affect T68. Perhaps it was a horrible awakening for him, and he’s going to be reduction to his neatly-liked self in Colorado.
Cut Dunlap snuck into the Top 50 with his T5 affect in Memphis. He’s one to behold out for attributable to he is prolonged off the tee and has fairly a few self belief honest now. Ludvig Åberg was quiet in Memphis, but this note suits his sport. Stumble on him manufacture some strikes and get to Atlanta for the first time.
This week will be one other aggressive gauntlet to find who can pass up the standings and stable a spot inner the Top 30.
Cease tuned for Spherical 1 and a pair of Tee events.
BMW Championship Tee Times for Spherical 1 (ET)
*All players start on No. 1
TBA
BMW Championship Tee Times for Spherical 2 (ET)
*All start on No. 1
TBA
Savannah Leigh Richardson is a golf workforce writer for SB Nation’s Playing Thru. For more golf coverage, teach us @_PlayingThrough on all predominant social platforms. You might perhaps well perchance also furthermore teach her on Twitter @SportsGirlSL and Instagram @golf_girl_sl.