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Wyndham Clark Closes With Three Straight Birdies to Win the BMW Championship

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Wyndham Clark did not make the BMW Championship easy on himself. He arrived at Bellerive Country Club on Sunday with a five-shot cushion built over the previous two days, three-putted the first hole for a bogey before most of the leaderboard had finished breakfast, and spent the better part of the afternoon watching that cushion shrink one dropped shot at a time. By the turn he had given back three strokes and was clinging to a two-shot lead over Patrick Cantlay and Rory McIlroy. Then, with the tournament and his third win of the season on the line, he birdied the sixteenth, the seventeenth and the eighteenth in succession to close it out at 17-under 263, three clear of Cantlay, with McIlroy a shot further back in third.

Gary Woodland Shares the Lead at a BMW Championship He Almost Didn't Play

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Gary Woodland’s tee shot on Thursday drew a bigger cheer than most opening shots at Bellerive Country Club get, and by the time he signed for a six-under 64 five hours later, the reason was obvious to anyone who has followed his last three years. Woodland shares the first-round lead of the BMW Championship with Wyndham Clark, Rory McIlroy and J.J. Spaun, all at six under, with Ludvig Åberg two shots back after closing his round with three birdies in his last four holes. Whatever happens across the remaining three rounds, Thursday alone was worth pausing on.

The BMW Championship Returns to Bellerive With the Season on the Line

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Bellerive Country Club has not hosted a professional event since the 2018 PGA Championship, and it had not hosted a FedExCup Playoffs event at all until this week. The Robert Trent Jones design in St Louis gets its turn from Thursday, and the timing could hardly be sharper: this is the week the field for the Tour Championship gets cut in half, and the man defending the title is coming off the most one-sided win of his career.

Bellerive Country Club: The Robert Trent Jones Course That Keeps Getting Recalled

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There is a particular kind of golf course that never quite becomes a household name but keeps getting handed the biggest weeks in the sport anyway, and Bellerive Country Club in suburban St Louis is as good an example as exists in American golf. This week it hosts the BMW Championship, the second leg of the FedExCup Playoffs, its fourth significant professional championship since the current course opened in 1960. Nobody talks about Bellerive the way they talk about Oakmont or Winged Foot, and yet the game keeps returning to it, which tells you something the reputation has not quite caught up with.