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Where is the 2024 BMW Championship being staged? Course, field and predictions
The action in Colorado gets underway on 22 August and winds up on the 25th with a total purse of $20,000,000 available.
Castle Pines Golf Club in Castle Rock in Colorado is the venue for the second leg of the FedEx Cup Playoffs as a field of just 50 golfers tee off on Thursday with a total purse available for the competition with $4 million alone going to the winner.
Scottie Scheffler is in pole position coming into the weekend top in points with 6,533 which is almost 1,500 more than Xander Schauffele in second place.
Lat weekends winner at the St. Jude’s Classic, Hideki Matsuyama is in third place on the FedEx points ranking and last year’s BMW Championship winner Victor Hovland will featured this weekend after moving up 41 spots after finishing just last weekend in a tie for second, just two shots back of Matsuyama.
Following the completion of the Castle Rock competition, the top 30 FedEx Cup point leaders will be moving on to East Lake for the final Tour Championship the following weekend.
2024 BMW Championship field
Scottie Scheffler
Xander Schauffele
Hideki Matsuyama
Collin Morikawa
Rory McIlroy
Wyndham Clark
Ludvig Åberg
Sahith Theegala
Patrick Cantlay
Sungjae Im
Shane Lowry
Robert MacIntyre
Akshay Bhatia
Tony Finau
Byeong Hun An
Viktor Hovland
Russell Henley
Sam Burns
Billy Horschel
Matthieu Pavon
Aaron Rai
Justin Thomas
Christiaan Bezuidenhout
Sepp Straka
Jason Day
Davis Thompson
Taylor Pendrith
Tom Hoge
Brian Harman
Denny McCarthy
Tommy Fleetwood
Chris Kirk
Corey Conners
J.T. Poston
Stephan Jaeger
Matt Fitzpatrick
Will Zalatoris
Austin Eckroat
Cameron Young
Thomas Detry
Adam Scott
Adam Hadwin
Max Homa
Si Woo Kim
Alex Noren
Eric Cole
Max Greyserman
Nick Dunlap
Cam Davis
Keegan Bradley
Predictions for Castle Rock
Scottie Scheffler (current world No. 1) remains the man to beat and threatens to hold the in the top spot in the FedEx Cup Standings, going into the tournament in Colorado. Xander Schauffele and Hideki Matsuyama also hold places on the podium and will be hoping that holding down that Schellfer misfires at Castle Rock.
Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy’s will be also looking to bounce back from a disappointing week at the St Jude Championship after a closing four-over-par 74 as the Portrush native finished joint second last
The Northern Ireland golfer has won the PGA Tour’s play-offs on three occasions - 2016, 2019 and 2022 - and despite his struggles in Memphis is still guaranteed to be in the Tour Championship field and will look to end his erratic season in style.
Only the top 30 players will progres to the final round which means that several big names will be playing under added pressure anxious not to miss out on a trip to with big rounds needed by the likes of Keegan Bradley, Will Zalatoris, Matt Fitzpatrick and Tommy Fleetwood.