2020 BMW Championship: PGA Tour Golf Betting Odds
Only the Top 70 in points advanced to the BMW Championship from last week’s The Northern Trust at TPC Boston and the Top 30 after this week will move on to the season-ending Tour Championship, where every player in the field would have a mathematical chance of winning the $15 million FedExCup grand prize.
The BMW Championship is played this year at Olympia Fields Country Club’s North Course. It’s the first time the course will host this event, but it has been held at other courses in the Chicago area over the years. Last year, it was at Medinah. The first club president at Olympia Fields was famous college football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg. He’s not only in the College Football Hall of Fame but the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Olympia Fields last hosted a PGA Tournament in 2003 and it was the U.S. Open won by Jim Furyk. It also hosted the 1928 U.S. Open and two PGA Championships (1925, 1961). Bryson DeChambeau won the 2015 U.S. Amateur at the course. It’s a par 70 at around 7,365 yards. The 2021 BMW Championship will move again to Maryland.
BMW Championship Betting Odds
Johnson is the +800 favourite after winning The Northern Trust in Boston on Sunday. DJ finished at 30-under 254, becoming only the third player in Tour history to reach 30 under. His 254 was one shy of the Tour record and his 11-shot victory was the largest in any event since 2006. Johnson reclaimed the No. 1 ranking in the world and took over the FedExCup points lead. He has won this tournament twice, in 2016 and 2010, but both at different courses.
Jon Rahm is +1000 with DeChambeau and Justin Thomas, who lost the No. 1 ranking, both +1200. Thomas won this tournament last year at Medinah also in the Chicago area. He finished at 25-under 263, three up on Patrick Cantlay. Thomas was T49 last week. DeChambeau has that amateur win here but missed the cut in Boston.
Tiger Woods is playing back-to-back weeks on the PGA Tour for the first time since doing so in last year’s Northern Trust (although he withdrew after Round 1) and BMW Championship. Woods has won this tournament twice, in 2009 and the first one in 2007, both at Cog Hill Golf & Country Club near Chicago. He went on to win the FedExCup both years. Tiger was T58 at The Northern Trust and is +4000 this week. At No. 57 in the points, he has work to do to reach the Tour Championship.
Some big names who didn’t get into the Top 70 in points and thus failed to advance to the BMW Championship: Phil Mickelson, Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, Rickie Fowler, Brooks Koepka (that was known as he WD from The Northern Trust before it started) and Jordan Spieth.
No Canadian has won the BMW Championship. Last year, Corey Conners shot all four rounds in the 60s and finished 15 under and tied for seventh, still 10 shots behind Thomas, though. Adam Hadwin was T43 at 6 under. They were the only two from Canada in the field.
Conners is 54th in points and comes off a T25 in Boston. He’s +12500 to win. Hadwin is 49th in points, comes off a missed cut and is +25000. Mackenzie Hughes is 36th in points, off a T13 and +15000.
BMW Championship Predictions
Take Conners for a Top 10 as well as Thomas – but not Tiger. The winner is Kevin Kisner at +4000. He’s playing really well right now with back-to-back Top 5s and was T9 in the 2019 BMW Championship for what that’s worth.
