INDUSTRY ROUNDUP CAVES VALLEY GC LANDS 2021 BMW CHAMPIONSHIP TOP PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS WILL head to Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills, Md., outside of Baltimore, for the 2021 BMW Championship, the penultimate event in the PGA Tour FedEx Cup playoffs, the Baltimore Business Journal reported. Caves Valley officials and the event’s organizer, the Western Golf Association, made the announcement on February 12th. The tournament is scheduled for August 17-22, 2021, and will whittle a field of the 70 best PGA Tour players down to 30, the Business Journal reported. Past winners include Justin Thomas, Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods. The 2019 BMW Championship drew more than 130,000 spectators from 44 states and three countries to Medinah (Ill.)
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Country Club in Illinois and resulted in $20 million in direct spending, generating $1.7 million in state taxes and $400,000 in local taxes, organizers said. Thomas won the 2019 competition, taking home $1.7 million, the Business Journal reported. This year’s BMW Championship is scheduled for August 20-23 at Olympia Fields Country Club, outside of Chicago. The 2021 BMW will be the first PGA Tour event in the Baltimore, Md. area since the 1962 Eastern Open Invitational, The Baltimore Sun reported.
The Western Golf Association’s Senior Vice President of Tournaments, Vince Pellegrino, said in a statement that Caves Valley’s “scenic and challenging course layout will provide a perfect test for the world’s top players,” the Business Journal reported. The club’s 962-acre, 18-hole, Tom Faziodesigned golf course opened in 1991 and has previously hosted the U.S. Senior Open, the 1995 U.S. Mid-Amateur, NCAA Division I men’s and women’s golf championships and the inaugural LPGA International Crown, among other tournaments.
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