Major Golf Championship Is Coming To Delaware
By: Tye Richmond
We are less than a month away from one of the biggest sporting events to come to Delaware in quite some time. Wilmington Country Club’s South Course will host the 2022 BMW Championship.
The BMW Championship will take place Aug. 16-21, and over 130,000 spectators are expected to flock to Wilmington Country Club for the event.
Wilmington Country Club's South Course, home to the 2022 #BMWCHAMPS, opened in October 1959 and was built by legendary golf course architect Robert Trent Jones Sr.
This 7,000-yard beauty of a beast will test golf’s best in August. #WilmingtonWednesdays pic.twitter.com/cPjCLxscLQ
— BMW Championship (@BMWchamps) July 13, 2022
As the penultimate event in the PGA Tour FedexCup Playoffs, the BMW Championship will include the top 70 players in the FedexCup standings. The top 30 players after the tournament will advance to the PGA Tour Championship on Aug. 25 in Atlanta.
The event is estimated to bring more than $30 million to the Wilmington-area economy.
History will be made.
Who’s ready for the 2022 #BMWCHAMPS? pic.twitter.com/jpTSAbumIR
— BMW Championship (@BMWchamps) July 19, 2022
“The expectations are an enormous amount of excitement, bringing in all the best players in the world here to our little state, to the city of Wilmington,” Gov. John Carney said. “It’s just going to be an exciting time to visit Delaware, and it will be an opportunity to showcase the great things about our state.”
Wilmington Country Club’s South Course is one of the top courses in the United States, according to Golf Digest, and although it has never hosted a professional event, it has hosted prestigious amateur events including the 1913 U.S. Women’s Amateur, the 1965 and 1978 U.S. Junior Amateur, the 1971 U.S. Amateur, the 1978 U.S. Girls’ Junior Amateur and the 2003 U.S. Mid-Amateur.
Hopefully Delaware can put on a good impression with the BMW Championship so other sporting events can have their events in the First State.
