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MEDINAH CC TO HOST 2019 BMW CHAMPIONSHIP
FedExCup Playoff event to add to club’s illustrious history

The 2019 BMW Championship,
BMW CHAMPIONSHIP conducted by the Western Golf
AT A GLANCE Association, will be held August 13–18
Conducted by the Western Golf at Medinah Country Club in
Association to benefit the Evans Medinah, Illinois.
Scholars Foundation, the BMW The BMW Championship is the
Championship is the second of three penultimate event in the PGA TOUR
events in the PGA TOUR Playoffs FedExCup Playoffs, with the TOUR’s
for the FedExCup and determines top 70 players vying to earn a spot in
the final field of 30 for the TOUR the season-ending TOUR
Championship at East Lake Golf Championship.
Club in Atlanta.
The 2019 BMW Championship will
mark the fourth time the WGA’s Keegan Bradley celebrates win at the 2018 BMW
Event Title
professional golf event has been Championship
BMW Championship contested at Medinah, but the first
scholarships to more than 11,800
since 1966.
Date caddies since 1930. More than 100
August 13–18, 2019 “Medinah holds an important place of those caddies have come from
in the history of the Western Golf Medinah. Currently, 985 caddies
Location Association and in the history of golf in are enrolled as Evans Scholars at
Medinah Country Club, Medinah, IL America,” said Vince Pellegrino, WGA universities nationwide.
Senior Vice President of Tournaments.
Purse “The Ryder Cup, PGA Championship MEDINAH COUNTRY CLUB
$9.25 million in prize money and the U.S. Open all have been played Founded in the 1920s by a group of
here, and we look forward to adding Shriners, Medinah Country Club boasts
Field another memorable chapter to this three golf courses, all originally designed
70 finalists in the PGA TOUR club’s great history.” by famed golf course architect Tom
Playoffs for the FedExCup Bendelow. The massive 120,000-square
The event will be played on Medinah’s
foot clubhouse designed by Richard
FedExCup Playoffs famed Course No. 3, a Tom Bendelow Schmid is a unique architectural blend
design that has hosted six major
Penultimate event, Top 70 players with Byzantine, Oriental and Louis XIV
championships and the 2012 Ryder
influences.
Defending Champion Cup; the course is consistently rated
one of the finest and most challenging Medinah Country Club is one of the
Keegan Bradley
in the United States. Chicago area's best known venues for
Title Sponsor championship golf. Course No. 3 has
The 2019 BMW Championship will
BMW of North America, LLC be the fourth time since 2013 that the the Ryder Cup (2012), three U.S.
Opens (1949, 1975, and 1990), two
event is played in the Chicago area, a
Conducted By PGA Championships (1999, 2006),
key market for title sponsor BMW of
Western Golf Association North America. three Western Opens (1946, 1962
and 1966), and other events in the
Volunteers Medinah also has been a steadfast pre-PGA Tour era. Players who have
Estimated 2,000-plus volunteers supporter of the Evans Scholars won at Medinah include such
Foundation, the sole charity of the luminaries as “Lighthorse” Harry
Beneficiary BMW Championship. Since 2007, the Cooper, Gene Sarazen, Byron Nelson,
Evans Scholars Foundation event has raised more than $30 million Billy Casper, Gary Player, Hale Irwin
for Evans Scholarships. and Tiger Woods.
Supported by the Western Golf For more information about the
Association, the Foundation has BMW Championship, visit
awarded full tuition and housing www.BMWChampionship.com.

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