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Tournaments / 2019-2020

BMW Championship

2020-08-27 · Olympia Fields Country Club (North Course)

Winner
Jon Rahm
Winning score
-4
Field
69
Field strength
+0.624 SG

The 2019-2020 BMW Championship was played at Olympia Fields Country Club (North Course), starting 27 August 2020. Jon Rahm won at 4 under par (276). The winning card was 75, 71, 66 and 64, and the win paid $1,710,000. Dustin Johnson finished second, and Hideki Matsuyama and Joaquin Niemann tied for third. 69 players started the event. The field averaged +0.624 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 99% of the players. The full leaderboard below lists every player's finish position, round scores and total to par. Every figure on this page comes from the PGA Tour's published final leaderboard for the event — nothing here is estimated or modelled.

Final leaderboard

Top 20 of 69. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.

Model score

Backtest · reconstructed

Our course-fit model re-run as it would have seen this week — using only data that existed before the first tee shot — then compared with how the 69 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Cgrade
Rank correlation
+0.334
Top-20 hit rate
40%
Top-10 avg model rank
24.0

Grade is this event’s percentile (66th) against every other event we have scored — not an absolute pass mark. Rank correlation runs −1 to +1, where 0 is a coin flip and a full-field golf model landing near +0.35 is a genuine read.

Who the model liked

Its top 10, and where they finished.

PlayerModelFinish
Rory McIlroy1st12th
Patrick Cantlay2nd12th
Justin Thomas3rd25th
Hideki Matsuyama4th3rd
Dustin Johnson5th2nd
Jon Rahm6th1st
Xander Schauffele7th25th
Adam Scott8th25th
Bryson DeChambeau9th50th
Sungjae Im10th56th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Lanto Griffin64th10th(54)
Jason Day15th64th(+49)
Sungjae Im10th56th(+46)
Bryson DeChambeau9th50th(+41)
Matt Kuchar18th59th(+41)
Mackenzie Hughes51st10th(41)
Richy Werenski60th20th(40)
Sebastián Muñoz47th8th(39)
Tiger Woods13th51st(+38)
Matthew Wolff53rd16th(37)

One known caveat. Player stats, form and course history are all restricted to what existed before this event. The course archetype is not — it is derived from the venue’s full history, including this edition. That flatters the model slightly and equally at every venue. How the model works.

The venue

This event was played at Olympia Fields Country Club (North Course) in Olympia Fields, Illinois, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the BMW Championship in 2019-2020?

Jon Rahm won the 2019-2020 BMW Championship at Olympia Fields Country Club (North Course), finishing 4 under par.

Where was the 2019-2020 BMW Championship played?

The 2019-2020 BMW Championship was played at Olympia Fields Country Club (North Course), starting 27 August 2020.

What was the winning score at the 2019-2020 BMW Championship?

The winning score was 4 under par (276 strokes), posted by Jon Rahm.

How many players were in the BMW Championship field?

69 players started the 2019-2020 BMW Championship. Every one of them appears on the leaderboard below.

Where these numbers come from

Finishes, round scores and to-par figures are the PGA Tour's own published final leaderboard for this event. Nothing is estimated or interpolated — where the tour published no value, this page shows a gap rather than a guess. Full sourcing notes are on the methodology page, and every stat name is defined in the glossary.