The BMW Championship is returning to the Chicagoland area in 2020. The event, conducted by the Western Golf Association, will be played at Olympia Fields Country Club. The precursor to The BMW Championship, was the Western Open, which was a fixture on the PGA Tour for decades. 70 of the Tour’s top players will be […]
Teaming Together for ‘Good Eats’
Two professional golf tour personalities were spotted recently at Medinah Country Club during the BMW Championship handing out free samples of beef jerky. Jeff King has caddied for more than two decades on the PGA and LPGA tours; Candie Kung enjoyed a successful career on the LPGA Tour through 2018. Therefore the subscript and equation […]
Tournament Week at the BMW Championship
The FedEx Cup’s BMW Championship rolls into town this week on four imported tires stopping at famed Medinah Country Club with slight tweaks to the usual FedEx Cup series format. Former Indianapolis Colts head coach, Jim Mora, once said “playoffs?” and now PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan says “payoffs!”. For the 2019 FedEx Cup series […]
70 / 30 : Tournament Week at The BMW Championship
This week’s BMW Championship at Conway Farms is the third round of the FedEx Cup playoffs and it is where the field is trimmed from 70 players to 30 players. Paraphrasing a line from a 1980’s futuristic action movie, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: “Seventy men enter, thirty men leave…seventy men enter, thirty men leave.” On […]
2015 BMW Championship: A Totally Stunning Event
Following the Bears’ loss to the Packers on Sunday, the mood of sports fans in Lake Forest quickly changed from “bummer” to “stunner” with the ignition of the 2015 BMW Championship featured in their home town. The good news started at the beginning of the week with the announcement that the BMW Championship will return […]
