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2020 BMW PGA Championship
US PGA Tour
Olympia Fields Country Club
Olympia Fields, Illinois, USA
27-30 August 2020
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2020 BMW Championship will be hosted by the Olympia Fields Country Club in Illinois, USA between 27 and 30 August.
The tournament is the penultimate FedEx Cup playoff event on the PGA Tour schedule and it was introduced in 2007 and it was previously known as the Western Open.
The PGA Tour has named the BMW Championship its Tournament of the Year three times - in 2012, 2013, and 2014.
American golfer Justin Thomas is the defending champion having won the BMW Championship title for the first time last year.
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Thomas shot 25-under-par and won the tournament at Medinah Country Club outside of Chicago, USA on 18 August 2019.
This was the second leg of the three-tournament 2019 FedEx Cup Playoffs and it placed Thomas in the lead in the FedEx Cup standings heading into the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club.
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The 27-year-old joined big names such as Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Jason Day, and Dustin Johnson who have also won the BMW Championship.
His compatriots Woods and Johnson are the most decorated players in the history of the tournament having both won a record two championships.
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Thomas will be part of the top 70 players of the PGA Tour season who will fight for only 30 spots in the final of the #FedExCup Playoffs.
The Kentucky-born golfer, who is placed second on the FedEx Cup playoffs standings, is looking forward to the BMW Championship which will then be followed by the Tour Championship.
"The biggest difference is that usually right after the Tour Championship, at least for me," Thomas said.
"I'm looking for a release, whether it's a vacation or just put the clubs in my garage for whatever.
"I need to have some fun. I need to just relax. That's not the case this year. That release will come Monday after the U.S. Open this year.''
The 2020 BMW Championship offers an $11 million purse with a winner's share of $1.98 million.
Last five BMW Championship winners
2015 - Jason Day - Australia
2016 - Dustin Johnson - USA
2017 - Marc Leishman - Australia
2018 - Keegan Bradley - USA
2019 - Justin Thomas - USA
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