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Sean Keeler: Wyndham Clark, Colorado's own, had Sunday to forget at 2024 BMW Championship. And made fans who'll remember him forever.

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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Brecken Schoonover wants to be Wyndham Clark when he grows up. Miken Schoonover wants to be Wyndham Clark’s agent.

The brothers from Parker, ages 10 and 6, bounced along the walkway Sunday that bridged the 18th hole and the giant clubhouse at Castle Pines Golf Club, and with good reason. Both carried a pale white golf ...Read more

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Keegan Bradley's 7th PGA Tour win was different. His dad was with him in Denver to see it.

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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Mark Bradley gave up on scoreboard-watching and ventured out to play his own round of golf. There was no use sitting indoors and refreshing the leaderboard online once his son had finished his final round across the country.

In Memphis, Keegan Bradley needed to finish the day 50th or higher in the FedExCup points ...Read more

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Keegan Bradley wins BMW Championship at Castle Pines Golf Club to cap PGA Tour's triumphant return to Colorado

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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — The Captain came up clutch to close out the PGA Tour’s long-awaited return to Colorado.

After entering the final day of the BMW Championship with a one-shot lead, Keegan Bradley played par golf on Sunday at Castle Pines Golf Club to finish 12-under par for the tournament — one stroke better than Sam Burns, Ludvig Å...Read more

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BMW Championship at Castle Pines Golf Club set up for thrilling finish with four players atop leaderboard within two strokes of each other

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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — After waiting a decade for the return of the PGA Tour, Colorado golfaholics will get the drama they deserve on Sunday.

Four players are bunched up atop the leaderboard within two strokes of each other entering the final day of the BMW Championship, setting up a thrilling finish Sunday at Castle Pines Golf Club.

The 2025 ...Read more

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Troy Renck: Wyndham Clark reads the room and putts. This week has been roaring success for hometown kid.

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Wyndham Clark can read a putt and a room. He showed up on moving day at the BMW Championship wearing a navy blue cap, orange polo, navy trousers and white cleats.

“Did you purposely wear Broncos colors?” I asked after his impressive third round at Castle Pines Golf Club.

“Yeah,” said Clark after a long pause. “I did.”

Like many of...Read more

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BMW Championship Day 3: Three wow moments, three ugly moments at Castle Pines Golf Club

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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — With Day 3 of the 2024 BMW Championship in the books, here’s a look at a few of the top wow moments and a few of the uglier ones from Castle Pines Golf Club.

The wow moments

— Billy Horschel played the opening hole about as perfectly as possible. He laced a drive 381 yards down the right of the fairway, then used a 3...Read more

Sean Keeler: When will PGA Tour's BMW Championship return to Castle Pines? Not 2025. But soon.

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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Scottie Scheffler let his inner Bob Knight loose on No. 10. Rory McIlroy gave his 3-wood a bath on 17. Adam Scott shot a 63, for pity’s sake.

A guy could get used to this PGA Tour thing, Duffy Solich. So we’re bringing the party back next year, right?

“I can tell you it’s probably not something either George (...Read more

Adam Scott's 9-under 63 sets Castle Pines record to surge Australian into lead on second day of BMW Championship

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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Adam Scott made Castle Pines Golf Club’s attempt to pro-proof its course look laughable on Friday.

The Australian surged into a three-shot lead at the BMW Championship heading into the weekend after firing a 9-under par 63 that set a new record at the recently overhauled course and topped Keegan Bradley’s 66 on ...Read more

Which golfer has been closest to a hole-in-one at BMW Championship? Denver's Wyndham Clark.

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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — The hometown hero’s tee shot caught the wind just right.

But he and his caddie were second-guessing themselves moments before.

Two rounds into the BMW Championship, a mile-high hole-in-one has eluded all 50 golfers, though a handful of them have nearly struck gold on the 11th and 16th holes at Castle Pines Golf Club. ...Read more

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Keegan Bradley, the last man into the BMW Championship, leads tournament after Day 1 with 6-under 66

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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — After being the last man to qualify for the BMW Championship with a No. 50 FedExCup ranking, bubble boy Keegan Bradley played like he had a new lease on life on Thursday.

The 38-year-old Vermont native carded a 66 to open the tournament at Castle Pines Golf Club, putting him in first place after one round of play. Should ...Read more

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Troy Renck: Jack Nicklaus designed Castle Pines, and he couldn't be happier with the reboot

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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — When Jack Nicklaus talks golf, all seems right in the world.

After a breathtaking flyover christened the BMW Championship, Nicklaus took a seat in a golf cart and opened up about Castle Pines Golf Club, the course he designed in 1981 and renovated over the last decade.

I was on the driving range reliving old times with ...Read more

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For one day, Xander Schauffele got the best of Scottie Scheffler at Castle Pines

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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — The PGA Tour’s best hunter arrived at the driving range Thursday at 8:30 a.m.

Two golfers to his right, the guy everyone else is chasing, was already into his pre-round routine ahead of their 9 a.m. tee time. The two best golfers in the world were paired together in the first round of the BMW Championship at Castle ...Read more

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Scottie Scheffler has struggled with altitude in past. His vacation to Telluride prepared him for BMW Championship in Colorado.

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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Scottie Scheffler unintentionally trained to conquer Colorado’s altitude on a family vacation between green jacket and gold medal triumphs.

So what if lung preparation wasn’t exactly the point of his trip to Telluride in early July? It provided him a little peace of mind, placebo or not, about returning to the ...Read more

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Wyndham Clark is trusting the process, and his game could be peaking at the perfect time in Colorado return

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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Given the way he’s played recently, the hometown crowd could be in for something special if Wyndham Clark is anywhere near the top of the leaderboard here Sunday morning.

Clark, who grew up playing on Front Range courses, is back to play a PGA Tour event in his home state for the first time. He enters the weekend as the...Read more

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Trajectory, math will be key as PGA pros attack BMW Championship at Castle Pines, the longest course in tour history

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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — There is no humidor at Castle Pines Golf Course.

When the 50 best players on the PGA Tour launch balls into the thin Front Range air this week at the BMW Championship, they are going to fly and fly … and fly a little more.

“It should be interesting. The ball is going to go really far this week, and the golf course is...Read more

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Coloradans revel in PGA Tour's return to Castle Pines with BMW Championship

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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Under a cloudless blue sky, the world’s 50 highest-ranked golfers on Tuesday descended on Colorado’s Castle Pines Golf Club — and with them came legions of adoring fans hoping to catch a glimpse of greatness.

Crowds arrived bright and early to watch the pros play practice rounds in advance of this week’s 2024 BMW ...Read more

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Jim Souhan: Top-three finishes are a new way to look at golf history

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MINNEAPOLIS — With the end of the U.S. Amateur at Hazeltine and the relevant portion of men’s professional golf headed to the BMW Championship, it’s time to ask a provocative question about golf history.

A question that I am stealing.

Jamie Kennedy, the director of digital content for Golf Digest, recently compiled a chart of top-three ...Read more

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Donald Trump's granddaughter, Kai Trump, commits to Miami to play golf

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump famously loves to play golf, and he helped pass that love on to his granddaughter.

Kai Trump, the daughter of Donald Trump Jr. and Vanessa Trump and the eldest of Trump’s 10 grandchildren, announced she had verbally committed to play golf at ...Read more

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Steve Hummer: East Lake remake almost done, and the changes are profound

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ATLANTA — One month out from the start of the Tour Championship, and still it’s laborers, not golfers, who have dominion over the East Lake Golf Club.

No warning cries of the wayward swing — “Fore!” — to be heard on Monday. Rather the “beep, beep, beep” of heavy machinery in reverse.

Since Viktor Hovland finished off his breezy...Read more

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Vegas picks up 3M Open victory with birdie on final hole

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BLAINE, Minn. — Jhonattan Vegas needed one last birdie to secure his first PGA Tour victory since 2017, and he did so Sunday to win the 3M Open.

Vegas prevailed on the TPC Twin Cities' watery, windy par-5 18th hole thanks to a perfect drive down the middle and an approach shot that he tugged left but still landed dry and safe. Then he hit two...Read more