BMW Championship R4

BMW Championship 2021 R4
August 26-29
Caves Valley Golf Club, Owings Mills, Maryland
$9,500,000
Round 1, Round 2, Round 3

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Patrick Cantlay made an 18-foot birdie putt at the sixth extra hole to win the BMW Championship on Sunday.

“I played really well all week. At the beginning of the week I didn’t realize it would take that many under par to just force a playoff. But I hit a lot of good shots today, and it was just enough.”

BMW Championship 2021 R4

Cantlay has now won three times this season, the only player to do so, and moves to the top of the FedEx Cup standings and has a two-shot lead in the Tour Championship. He also gets the final automatic place on the U.S. Ryder Cup team.

Americans Cantlay and DeChambeau, who were tied in the lead overnight and playing together, both signed for final round 66s. DeChambeau looked set to win after taking a one shot lead at the 16th, especially as Cantlay found the water at the 17th and bogeyed the hole. But DeChambeau also bogeyed and could only par the final hole while Cantlay made birdie setting up the playoff.

BMW Championship 2021 R4

“It was a grind,” said Cantlay. “It was way more holes than I thought I was going to play today, but it was more of what we’ve seen all week. The golf course was easy, so you needed to make a bunch of putts and make a bunch of birdies, and I did.”

Both finished at 27-under 261, a difficult score for DeChambeau as no one shooting that score had ever lost on Tour previously.

BMW Championship 2021 R4

South Korea’s Sungjae Im came third at 23-under after a final round 67 followed by Rory McIlroy who also shot 67 for fourth place one shot further behind.

“It’s been a good week,” said McIlroy. “A lot more encouraging than last week at the Northern Trust. Played better. I got off to a better start. I think that’s the thing, as well; Pete Cowan has always been on me about if you start tournaments well, you’ll do well. It was nice to play a good first round this week and sort of build off of that and not really be trying to play catch-up all the time.

BMW Championship 2021 R4

“But yeah, it was a really good week. I hit the ball well. I putted better with the old putter back in the bag.

“All I wanted to do was get to East Lake next week, and it’s nice that I’ve moved up a few spots, as well, and probably start a couple of shots closer to the leader.”

BMW Championship 2021 R4

South African Erik van Rooyen, who was 139th in the standings three week ago before winning the Barracuda Championship and finishing T7 at last week’s the Northern Trust, finishes fifth this week with a final round 65 to reach 21-under. He moves up to 27th in the standings enabling him to go to the Tour Championship.

“It’s my first full year on the PGA TOUR, and it was a goal of mine to get there,” said van Rooryen/ “Like we just said, six weeks ago or so I wasn’t even sniffing it. Just really proud of myself.”

BMW Championship 2021 R4

Sergio Garcia finished tied for sixth place alongside Dustin Johnson and moves into the top 30 in the standings qualifying him for the Tour Championship for the first time since 2017.

“It’s very exciting, ” said Garcia. “Obviously after last week I put myself in a difficult spot, but showed a lot of guts this week. Played some great golf.”

BMW Championship 2021 R4

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total
1	Patrick Cantlay	-27	66	63	66	66	261
2	Bryson DeChambeau	-27	68	60	67	66	261
3	Sungjae Im	-23	67	65	66	67	265
4	Rory McIlroy	-22	64	70	65	67	266
5	Erik van Rooyen	-21	67	68	67	65	267
T6	Sergio Garcia	-20	65	67	67	69	268
T6	Dustin Johnson	-20	67	70	65	66	268
8	Sam Burns	-19	64	70	65	70	269
T9	Abraham Ancer	-18	66	67	66	71	270
T9	Alex Noren	-18	71	66	67	66	270
T9	Jon Rahm	-18	64	66	70	70	270
T12	K.H. Lee	-17	69	69	66	67	271
T12	Webb Simpson	-17	67	72	66	66	271
T12	Harold Varner III	-17	67	70	69	65	271
T15	Tony Finau	-16	67	72	70	63	272
T15	Jason Kokrak	-16	73	68	65	66	272
T17	Viktor Hovland	-15	70	69	68	66	273
T17	Kevin Na	-15	72	65	69	67	273
T17	Charl Schwartzel	-15	71	66	68	68	273
T17	Hudson Swafford	-15	67	66	68	72	273
T17	Aaron Wise	-15	69	66	71	67	273
T22	Corey Conners	-14	70	70	69	65	274
T22	Brooks Koepka	-14	70	67	69	68	274
T22	Scottie Scheffler	-14	73	66	68	67	274
T22	Justin Thomas	-14	68	71	69	66	274
T26	Daniel Berger	-13	68	71	70	66	275
T26	Harris English	-13	69	70	71	65	275
T26	Shane Lowry	-13	71	68	71	65	275
T29	Cam Davis	-12	73	67	67	69	276
T29	Brian Harman	-12	69	69	70	68	276
T29	Si Woo Kim	-12	74	71	65	66	276
T29	Sebastián Muñoz	-12	67	68	72	69	276
T29	Joaquin Niemann	-12	68	74	68	66	276
T34	Patton Kizzire	-11	69	72	68	68	277
T34	Cameron Smith	-11	68	72	69	68	277
T34	Jordan Spieth	-11	71	70	70	66	277
T34	Lee Westwood	-11	71	70	67	69	277
T38	Paul Casey	-10	68	68	70	72	278
T38	Stewart Cink	-10	69	74	66	69	278
T38	Lucas Glover	-10	68	67	73	70	278
T38	Harry Higgs	-10	72	67	71	68	278
T38	Charley Hoffman	-10	69	71	68	70	278
T38	Matt Jones	-10	69	70	71	68	278
T38	Louis Oosthuizen	-10	71	74	64	69	278
T38	Jhonattan Vegas	-10	69	70	72	67	278
T46	Emiliano Grillo	-9	67	73	73	66	279
T46	Hideki Matsuyama	-9	67	69	72	71	279
48	Chris Kirk	-8	71	71	68	70	280
T49	Tom Hoge	-7	69	71	71	70	281
T49	Xander Schauffele	-7	67	68	75	71	281
51	Marc Leishman	-6	69	76	68	69	282
T52	Branden Grace	-5	75	71	68	69	283
T52	Billy Horschel	-5	71	72	73	67	283
T52	Mackenzie Hughes	-5	69	71	70	73	283
T52	Kevin Streelman	-5	71	70	70	72	283
T52	Cameron Tringale	-5	73	71	70	69	283
T57	Talor Gooch	-4	69	71	74	70	284
T57	Keith Mitchell	-4	72	70	73	69	284
T57	Ryan Palmer	-4	68	75	69	72	284
T60	Keegan Bradley	-3	67	76	72	70	285
T60	Russell Henley	-3	72	73	73	67	285
T60	Robert Streb	-3	73	71	69	72	285
T63	Max Homa	-2	72	72	73	69	286
T63	Maverick McNealy	-2	69	70	70	77	286
T63	Collin Morikawa	-2	72	75	70	69	286
T66	Cameron Champ	-1	70	74	72	71	287
T66	Kevin Kisner	-1	72	71	72	72	287
T66	Phil Mickelson	-1	68	77	68	74	287
T66	Carlos Ortiz	-1	68	74	75	70	287