When is it on?
The BMW PGA Championship is on from Thursday, September 11th to Sunday, September 14th at the West Course at the Wentworth Club in Surrey, England. It is the DP World Tour’s flagship event, and therefore a Rolex Series event, with a $9 million prize fund (€7.66 million).
How can I watch it all?
The BMW PGA Championship will be shown on Sky Sports Golf from 8.30am every morning from Thursday.
What is Wentworth like as a course?
An exclusive club just outside London, the Harry Colt-designed Wentworth is one of the great tournament courses in England. In its history, it held the Ryder Cup in 1953 and hosted the world’s best players in the now-defunct world matchplay championship. Since 1984, it has been the course of the BMW PGA Championship. A tree-lined course with many dramatic holes, it was redesigned for modern play by Ernie Els, who won the world matchplay seven times there.
Which Irish players are playing?
There are four Irish players in the field – Rory McIlroy, Shane Lowry, Pádraig Harrington and Tom McKibbin. Both McIlroy and Lowry are former winners of the event. Interestingly, on the respective occasions when they won, the other finished second (Lowry in 2022 by one shot from McIlroy, McIlroy in 2014 by one shot from Lowry). McIlroy has been second here three times since his last win, including last year, when he lost in a playoff to Billy Horschel. The Co Down man is obviously on top form, fresh off his dramatic win in the Irish Open, his fourth worldwide win in a banner year which included a Masters victory, and is far ahead at the top of the Race to Dubai standings.
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Who else has come to play?
McKibbin is one of several LIV players taking part, as the DP World Tour does not ban players from that tour like the PGA Tour does. Jon Rahm, Brooks Koepka and Joaquin Niemann are playing, as well as almost the entire European Ryder Cup team, led by in-form Tommy Fleetwood. A sprinkling of PGA Tour regulars make it one of the strongest fields in the event for many years. It is missing several US Ryder Cup players, but 10 of them are taking part in a PGA Tour event in Napa to prepare for the Ryder Cup.
What are the tee times?
McIlroy is playing with Lowry and Rahm in a blockbuster pairing at Wentworth, they go out at 12.45pm on Thursday. Harrington is out at 7.50am with Niemann and Daniel Brown, while McKibbin is out with Ewen Ferguson and Richard Mansell at 9.25pm.
06:40 Tom Vaillant, Thomas Aiken, Ivan Cantero
06:50 Marcel Schneider, Jeong Weon Ko, Angel Ayora
07:00 Gavin Green, David Micheluzzi, Jayden Schaper
07:10 Brandon Stone, Haotong Li, Aaron Cockerill
07:20 Johannes Veerman, Dylan Frittelli, Dale Whitnell
07:30 Jhonattan Vegas, Connor Syme, Martin Couvra
07:40 Antoine Rozner, Michael Kim, Nicolai Von Dellingshausen
07:50 Pádraig Harrington, Joaquin Niemann, Daniel Brown
08:00 Francesco Molinari, Harry Hall, Si Woo Kim
08:15 Matt Wallace, Min Woo Lee, Aaron Rai
08:25 Laurie Canter, Adam Scott, Brooks Koepka
08:35 Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, Billy Horschel
08:45 Hideki Matsuyama, Ludvig Åberg, Matt Fitzpatrick
08:55 Nicolai Højgaard, Patrick Reed, John Parry
09:05 Patrick Rodgers, Romain Langasque, Eugenio Chacarra
09:15 Erik Van Rooyen, Elvis Smylie, Ryan Gerard
09:25 Richard Mansell, Ewen Ferguson, Tom McKibbin
09:35 Jacques Kruyswijk, Angel Hidalgo, Dan Bradbury
09:50 Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Paul O’Hara, Sam Bairstow
10:00 Joe Dean, Calum Hill, Dylan Naidoo
10:10 Jordan Gumberg, Yannik Paul, Shubhankar Sharma
10:20 Oliver Lindell, Brandon Robinson Thompson, Kazuma Kobori
10:30 Ricardo Gouveia, Fabrizio Zanotti, Darren Fichardt
10:40 Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Manuel Elvira, Scott Jamieson
10:50 Ben Schmidt, Richie Ramsay, Marcus Kinhult
11:00 Andy Sullivan, Ugo Coussaud, Alex Fitzpatrick
11:15 Matthew Jordan, Casey Jarvis, Joakim Lagergren
11:25 Jeff Winther, Zander Lombard, Francesco Laporta
11:35 Adrian Meronk, Frederic Lacroix, David Ravetto
11:45 Marcel Siem, Nacho Elvira, Julien Guerrier
11:55 Bernd Wiesberger, Dean Burmester, Adrian Otaegui
12:05 Matti Schmid, Grant Forrest, Adrien Saddier
12:15 Danny Willett, Keita Nakajima, Corey Conners
12:25 Viktor Hovland, Rasmus Højgaard, Marco Penge
12:35 Robert MacIntyre, Tyrrell Hatton, Ryan Fox
12:45 Rory McIlroy, Shane Lowry, Jon Rahm
13:00 Kristoffer Reitan, Thriston Lawrence, Thomas Detry
13:10 Alex Noren, Matteo Manassero, Luke Donald
13:20 Niklas Norgaard, Thomas Pieters, Jordan Smith
13:30 Matthieu Pavon, Pablo Larrazábal, Jorge Campillo
13:40 Guido Migliozzi, Daniel Hillier, Ryggs Johnston
13:50 Alejandro Del Rey, Yuto Katsuragawa, Shaun Norris
14:00 Darius Van Driel, Todd Clements, Simon Forsström
14:10 Andrea Pavan, Joost Luiten, Sean Crocker
14:20 Maximilian Kieffer, Matthew Baldwin, Alfredo Garcia-Heredia
14:30 Jason Scrivener, Marcus Armitage, Callum Shinkwin
What is the winner’s prize?
The winner takes home €1,370,338 from the €7.66 million overall pot.
What is the weather forecast?
It will be very pleasant autumnal weather in Wentworth, with temperatures of about 21 degrees, sunny intervals and light winds.
