BMW CHAMPIONSHIP PLAYER
1 DUSTIN JOHNSON 2 PAUL CASEY T3 K.J. CHOI
T3 MATT KUCHAR T3 RYAN MOORE T3 KEVIN NA
7 RETIEF GOOSEN T8 PHIL MICKELSON T8 STEVE STRICKER T8 CHARLIE WI
LEADERBOARD
ROUNDS & TOTAL FEDEXCUP EARNINGS 68 70 68 69 275 69 69 69 69 276 71 69 69 69 278 64 72 70 72 278 65 74 66 73 278 70 69 69 70 278 67 71 71 70 279 72 71 70 67 280 70 73 67 70 280 67 69 70 74 280
2,500.00 $1,350,000 1,500.00 $810,000 700.00 $360,000 700.00 $360,000 700.00 $360,000 700.00 $360,000 450.00 $251,250 400.00 $217,500 400.00 $217,500 400.00 $217,500
to win by a stroke and cast aside the ghosts of tournaments past. “To finally get it done, especially after all the things
I’ve gone through this
summer...it can’t feel any better,” Johnson said. “I played really good golf today. I didn’t make as many birdies as I would have liked, but I made just enough.” Johnson’s third and final birdie came on the 17th hole
when he put his considerable power to good use, blistering a drive over the trees. He nipped his sand wedge to two feet and made the birdie to take the solo lead. “I was just trying to cut a drive, hold it against the
wind and get it around the corner a little bit. And I hit it perfectly,” Johnson said. Another good drive and a safe par on 18 gave him the
title and moved him to the No. 2 spot in the PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup—a truly excellent position to be in to win the $10 million bonus at THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola two weeks down the road. The other big story of the week was Tiger Woods’ failure
to advance to the final event of the Playoffs. His 15th-place finish wasn’t enough to get him into the 30-player field in Atlanta. “That’s just the way it is,” Woods said. “I didn’t play well
early in the year, and I didn’t play well in the middle of the year.” But in the end, the headlines belonged to Johnson and his gutsy comeback from adversity. ■
“AFTER A FEW UNFORTUNATE SITUATIONS I’VE HAD, IT
DEFINITELY FEELS GOOD AND
GIVES ME A LOT OF CONFIDENCE GOING THE REST OF THE YEAR.”
— Dustin Johnson on his win
6 Dustin Johnson’s
victory at the BMW Championship
meant that all six of the season’s multiple winners made it into the
field for THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola.
Charity Link
• The primary charity of the BMW Championship is the Western Golf Association- sponsored Evans Scholars Foundation, America’s largest privately funded college scholarship program. Since 1930, more than 8,800 deserving young caddies have earned their college degrees through Evans Scholarships. Today, more than 840 caddies attend college as Evans Scholars. The Evans Scholarship was founded by the great amateur, Charles “Chick” Evans, Jr. (1890-1979). The Evans Scholarship is a full-tuition scholarship, renewable for up to four years. Most Evans Scholars also live in a campus Scholarship House with other Evans Scholars. The Evans Scholarship program is supported by thousands of contributors across the country.
• The PGA TOUR Wives Association made a scholarship donation during BMW Championship week.
Most Victories: Tiger Woods (5)
Course Insight:
Cog Hill Golf and Country Club (Dubsdread Course)
The seventh green at Cog Hill Golf & Country Club in Lemont, Illinois.
The Dubsdread Course at Cog Hill Golf and Country Club was the pride and joy of the late Joe Jemsek, a former caddie from the Chicago area who passionately believed that the public player deserved a course every bit as good as any private country club. The Dick Wilson design was just that, and it is even a sterner test now following a 2008 renovation by Rees Jones, who did widely praised restorations of U.S. Open venues such as The Country Club and Congressional Country Club. “We stayed very close to the original Dick Wilson design,” said Jones. “Dick did a wonderful job with this great piece of golf property. The tailor cut the cloth well. What we are doing is just making adjustments because the game has changed. There are some very fantastic contours on the new greens; we still will have the Dick Wilson tongues and little small areas of greens. You will have to make choices, go for the fat of the green or go for the Dick Wilson tongue. That will depend on where you hit your tee shot, and the penalty will be greater if you go for the small part of the green and miss it.
“We have taken the tees back, but the TOUR pros will be able to hit the par 5s in two. They will notice the par 3s have some additional length, and the par 4s have more bite to them. They will notice that many of the greens have been made a lot smaller, because the green complexes are much more important than in the past,” Jones added.
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