NEWSLETTER
BMW Championship Purse – The BMW Championship at Castle Pines in Colorado will host the top 50 players in the FedEx Cup standings. This event is the final opportunity for the world’s best golfers to earn a spot in the field for the PGA Tour finale at East Lake.
Similar to last week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship, which was won by Hideki Matsuyama, there is a $20 million purse up for grabs, with the winner set to take home $3.6 million and 2,000 FedEx Cup points. However, the biggest prize of the year, an $18 million bonus, will be awarded at the Tour Championship in Atlanta to the top 30 in the standings at the close of play on Sunday.
Castle Pines Golf Club is a stunning parkland-style course set in the rugged mountains, offering breathtaking views. The course features ponds, streams, and a wide variety of wildlife, including a herd of 250 elk. The club is adorned with 80,000-100,000 flowers annually, creating a picturesque and colorful environment.
Although the course measures 8,130 yards, the high altitude of 6,300 feet above sea level allows the ball to travel approximately 10% further. The course has been lengthened by 600 yards to make it more challenging. As a result, it will play at around 7,400 yards, which is in line with other par 72 courses on the PGA Tour.
The altitude and elevation changes make the course quite challenging. Players and caddies will spend time calculating shot distances, adding an extra layer of strategy to the game. Jack Nicklaus designed the course to complement the natural contours of the land, resulting in a course with 400 feet of elevation change and stunning views of the rugged terrain.
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BMW Championship Purse
Payout Breakdown
Here are the total payouts for this week’s BMW Championship:
| Position | Earnings |
| 1 | $3,600,000 |
| 2 | $2,160,000 |
| 3 | $1,360,000 |
| 4 | $990,000 |
| 5 | $830,000 |
| 6 | $750,000 |
| 7 | $695,000 |
| 8 | $640,000 |
| 9 | $600,000 |
| 10 | $560,000 |
| 11 | $520,000 |
| 12 | $480,000 |
| 13 | $441,000 |
| 14 | $402,000 |
| 15 | $382,000 |
| 16 | $362,000 |
| 17 | $342,000 |
| 18 | $322,000 |
| 19 | $302,000 |
| 20 | $282,000 |
| 21 | $262,000 |
| 22 | $245,000 |
| 23 | $229,000 |
| 24 | $213,000 |
| 25 | $197,000 |
| 26 | $181,000 |
| 27 | $174,000 |
| 28 | $167,000 |
| 29 | $160,000 |
| 30 | $153,000 |
| 31 | $146,000 |
| 32 | $139,000 |
| 33 | $132,000 |
| 34 | $127,000 |
| 35 | $122,000 |
| 36 | $117,000 |
| 37 | $112,000 |
| 38 | $108,000 |
| 39 | $104,000 |
| 40 | $100,000 |
| 41 | $96,000 |
| 42 | $92,000 |
| 43 | $88,000 |
| 44 | $84,000 |
| 45 | $80,000 |
| 46 | $76,000 |
| 47 | $72,000 |
| 48 | $70,000 |
| 49 | $68,000 |
| 50 | $66,000 |
About Castle Pines
Each set of nine holes starts on the highest areas of the property before working down to the bottom and back to the top to finish out. With a full complement of four par 5s along with all the water hazards, there are plenty of risk/reward opportunities throughout the course.
Fairways vary in width with some expansive and others bottlenecking near the landing zones between 300-325 yards. Judging proper distance and lines off the tee will be crucial, considering the numerous uphill and downhill tee shots, water hazards, deep fairways bunkers, and crowned fairways that camber to one side or the other. Early reports have the rough at 4+ inches and growing. The rough is a blend of Kentucky bluegrass, tall fescue, and perennial ryegrass.
Ten different holes present water danger as numerous ponds and babbling brooks are strategically placed to gobble up errant shots. Deep grassy barrancas also come into play on a few holes, mostly as penal runoff areas to collect errant approaches into these elevated greens.
As for the greens, they are heavily guarded by either bunkers or ponds. They don’t have many steep undulations but are multi-tiered, with many sloping from back to front. Agronomically, the greens are 70% bentgrass and 30% poa annua and are set to run at a speedy 13 on the stimpmeter.
“It’s very exciting to see Castle Pines back in tournament golf,” Nicklaus said. “We have made some excellent changes to the golf course over the last five years, which make it more playable but still quite challenging. The players will really enjoy this renewed facility.”
