BMW PGA Championship Tickets

BMW PGA Championship, an age-old professional golfing institution

BMW PGA Championship is one of the more recent additions to the PGA Golf tournament fixture calendar. It has been contested since 2007, although this belies its true heritage as one of the oldest tournaments in professional golfing history and a highly venerated championship that has always drawn some of the most ardent golf fans. You can buy or sell BMW PGA Championship tickets on StubHub every year that the tournament is held.

An illustrious PGA Tour history as the Western Open

The BMW PGA Championship was a renaming of the Western Open, the third-oldest PGA event in the world, which has traditionally been played at one of the oldest courses in the US, Cog Hill Golf Club Event in Chicago. The event is also one of the very oldest in existence, having been the premier golf championship in the Illinois area since 1899. This means that the tournament is older than the PGA Tour itself, which only began in 1916. The Western Open was of course one of the original competitions on circuit. It was first played at Glen View Golf Club, and soon moved to Cog Hill. It was preceded only by the British Open and the US Open in joining the PGA Tour. In its guise as the BMW PGA Championship it has become a modern-day favourite with players and fans, and won the Tournament of the Year award on the PGA Tour three years in a row in the early 2010s. BMW PGA Championship tickets promise an experience like few other golfing tournaments, both for the event's sense of history and its ability to produce scintillating golfing action year after year.

A select field for this FedEx Cup event

The BMW PGA Championship is also part of the FedEx Cup, and differs from most of the other events on the PGA Tour in that it does not employ the 36-hole cut. The reason for this is that the field is smaller than the other tournaments by virtue of the fact that only the top 70 golfers in the standings at the end of The Northern Trust tournament in New York compete. This also ensures a tight field and plenty of nail-biting finishes for spectators to appreciate. The event has sometimes been held at alternative golf courses, particularly Medinah Country Club Event, which has also hosted Ryder Cup competitions. It has also at times been held outside the state of Illinois, in St. Louis and Denver, as well as at another famous US golf course, Crooked Stick in Carmel, which is where Dustin Johnson racked up his second win, becoming only the second player to do so after Tiger Woods. No matter where it has been held, it has always served up some memorable golf, so don't ignore BMW PGA Championship tickets when you see them on StubHub.