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THE OLYMPIA FIELDS Country Club has informed it’s membership that the club has been awarded the 2020 PGA Tour-Western Golf Association (WGA) event.
The championship will be identified for the time being, as the 2020 BMW Championship, while the tournament is still under contract with BMW, through the end of the 2019 championship that will be played in August at Medinah Country Club.
There have been rumors that BMW will leave the tournament at the end of the 2019 championship. BMW in recent years has voiced it’s position to not play at clubs on the southside of the Chicago area, feeling it’s market and majority of the buyers who buy BMW vehicles are located in Chicago’s Northshore area. That position on BMW’s part, made Conway Farms in Lake Forest, a perfect location in 2013-2015 and 2017 to host the championship.
The famed par 4, third hole on Olympia Fields North Course, that would be the site of the championship.
One WGA official made it clear this past summer that returning to the southside and Olympia Fields would be a great idea. But that idea would likely happen, only if BMW left as sponsor.
New BMW North America leader Bernhard Kuhnt is believed to be thinking a move away from golf, to promote BMW going forward, while previous chief Ludwig Willisch was a supporter of golf.
Talks between Olympia Fields and the Western Open and the PGA Tour have been on-going for the last 18 months, said new Olympia Fields Club President Joe Tapajna (who spoke only with Tim Cronin of the Illinois Golfer/Illinoisgolfer.net).
“We love to host championship golf,” Tapajna said. “We think it energizes our members. It gives us the opportunity to give us a little extra push to do things we should do in terms of improving ourselves.”
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The announcement to it’s membership said the club would host the championship in terms of both financial benefit, and to expose the club to a big audience on national television.
According to history provided by the Illinois Golfer, this would be the 6th Western Open/BMWChampionship or new sponsor? at Olympia Fields.
The last championship was the 1971 championship won by Bruce Crampton. Jack Nicklaus won the tournament at OFCC in 1968.
For more information on Olympia Fields championship history, and it’s history with the Western Golf Association, see the story at Illinoisgolfer.net.