{"id":12244,"date":"2024-08-19T06:38:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T06:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/?post_type=article&#038;p=12244"},"modified":"2024-08-19T15:31:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:31:55","slug":"2024-bmw-championship-at-castle-pines-golf-club-preview","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/article\/2024-bmw-championship-at-castle-pines-golf-club-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 BMW Championship at Castle Pines Golf Club &#8211; Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Carved out of a pine forest in the scenic foothills of the Rocky Mountains sits Castle Pines Golf Club. Located in Castle Rock, Colorado, just 27 miles south of Denver, Castle Pines is a Jack Nicklaus design that will be the longest course in PGA Tour history at 8,130 yards on the official scorecard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Club founder Jack Vickers had urged architect Jack Nicklaus to produce a mountain venue design worthy of a major championship &#8211; a western version of Augusta National. Since its founding in 1981, Castle Pines has undergone a steady procession of hole alterations to keep pace with changing technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The par 72 layout features twisting hole shapes, dramatic elevation changes, elevated, multi-tiered greens, numerous water hazards, and Rocky Mountain air that allows golf balls to travel around 10% further than they would at sea level. The club has become a fixture inside the top 50 of America\u2019s greatest courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For 21 years (1986-2006), this course was a mainstay on the PGA Tour, hosting &#8220;The International&#8221; tournament, that featured the distinctive Stableford scoring system which encouraged aggressive play and rewarded risk-takers. It consistently attracted many of the best players in professional golf and had winners including Retief Goosen, Davis Love III, Phil Mickelson, Brad Faxon, Ernie Els, and Greg Norman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike the FedEx St. Jude Championship or the Tour Championship, played at TPC Southwind and East Lake respectively, the second playoff tournament has been played on many different courses. Since the event\u2019s name change from the Western Open to its rebranding in 2007, ten different courses have held 17 editions of the BMW Championship. At last year&#8217;s BMW Championship, Victor Hovland won his fifth PGA Tour title by two strokes at Olympia Fields over Scottie Scheffler and Matt Fitzpatrick before securing the FedEx Cup title a week later by winning at East Lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Field<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>50 golfers are still alive heading into the second round of the FedEx Cup Playoffs. They can also breathe a sigh of relief as each one has guaranteed their spot in all eight Signature events next year. The top-30 in the FedEx Cup standings after this week will advance to next week&#8217;s Tour Championship. Similar to last week, this is another small-field, no-cut event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not one golfer teeing off this week has ever played an official round at Castle Pines. Only Adam Scott was even on the PGA Tour when the last tournament was held in 2006, and he did not compete that week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The player with the most experience at Castle Pines is unsurprisingly, Colorado native Wyndham Clark who enters this week trending upward. Clark has estimated he&#8217;s played Castle Pines 25-30 times over the years. Three weeks ago at the Olympics, he tied for the best scoring total over the last three rounds en route to a 14th-place finish. This past week at the FedEx St. Jude Championship he soared up the leaderboard with a 64 on Sunday and a seventh-place finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"646\" src=\"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-3.png 680w, https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-3-300x285.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Castle Pines GC &#8211; Course History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It was 1969 and Midwest oilman Jack Vickers had just moved to Denver and wanted &#8220;to get better acquainted with his new surroundings&#8221; when he stumbled upon the property that is now Castle Pines Golf Club. Out on a drive to explore the area, he came upon a dirt lane on the south side of town and, on a whim, turned onto Happy Canyon Road. He stopped his car about half way up the lane, got out and climbed to the top of a rocky ridge \u2014 discovering a 360-degree panorama of iconic Colorado scenery. He had found the perfect spot to build his world-class golf course and club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It took 12 years before Vickers had persuaded the numerous local landowners involved to deed him the title to the acreage he needed. With the location of his club decided, Vickers turned his attention to the golf course and engaged Jack Nicklaus to be the course architect. Touring the site on foot and by helicopter, both Vickers and Nicklaus are fond of saying that though they seldom agreed, they ultimately hammered out the final layout to what would become one of the best golf courses in the country. Construction began in 1979 and Castle Pines Golf Club officially opened in October of 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The entire course has been renovated since the last &#8220;International&#8221; in 2006 with help from Jack Nicklaus and Total Turf company. The renovation has included new bunkers, rebuilt tees and greens, redesigned water features, and an almost entirely new third hole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Every Hole at Castle Pines Golf Club | Golf Digest\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v3W9J2HPjh8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We have partnered with\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/betspertsgolf.com\/golf-betting\/pga-championship-underdog-plays-round-1\" target=\"_blank\">Underdog<\/a>\u00a0to bring you an easy way to claim a FREE, no-strings-attached 90 days of\u00a0<em>Premium Access to Betsperts Golf,<\/em>\u00a0plus up to $250 in bonuses when you deposit! 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