{"id":4875,"date":"2022-08-15T18:18:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T18:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/?post_type=article&p=4875"},"modified":"2022-08-15T18:29:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T18:29:24","slug":"2022-bmw-championship-wilmington-country-club-south-course-preview","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/article\/2022-bmw-championship-wilmington-country-club-south-course-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 BMW Championship \u2013 Wilmington Country Club (South) \u2013 Course Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Coming off a thrilling Will Zalatoris win in the first round of the FedExCup playoffs, the PGA Tour heads to the state of Delaware for the time ever. Set among the picturesque rolling hills of the Delaware Valley, the South Course at Wilmington Country Club will host the BMW Championship and the top 70 players in the FedExCup standings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This tournament is a no-cut event that represents the semifinal round of the FedExCup playoffs. Players will be competing for $15 million in prize money along with one of the 30 final spots for next week’s Tour Championship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similar to last week, this event will be packed with the best players on Tour. With Zalatoris taking over the top spot on the points list, notables like Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, and Jordan Spieth will look to rebound off their missed cut at the St. Jude Championship. Cam Smith (withdraw) and Tommy Fleetwood (rest) are the only players in the top 70 who will not be in the field this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the upper-tier players are safely in the Tour Championship and, along with competing to win this week, will also be playing for the ultra-important positioning for next week’s staggered start that favors the players that are highest in the standings. Players further down the points list like Marc Leishman, Harold Varner III, Tyrrell Hatton, and Chris Kirk will need a high finish in order to advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Course History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 1901, the members of the newly formed Wilmington Country Club purchased 335 acres of land from the famous duPont family. Later that same year the first version of the South Course opened for play. In the late 1950s, the club bought a new piece of land and called on one of the era’s best golf architects, Robert Trent Jones, to build a new course. Completed in 1959, Jones designed a brute of a course that will play this week as a par-71 and stretch out to 7,534 yards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The course was renovated by Keith Foster in 2008 and again last year by Andrew Green. Last year’s renovation included a complete re-bunkering, the addition of eight new bunkers around 300 yards from the tee to better challenge players, building seven new championship tees, and changing the intermediate rough to tall Fescue. The bunker rebuild came as a result of a tornado that tore through the course back in 2020, which also destroyed more than 300 trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While never having hosted a professional event, Wilmington Country Club has hosted six USGA events in the past, including the 2013 Palmer Cup between the United States and Europe. Justin Thomas is the only player in the field who participated in that event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Course<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wilmington Country Club is a tree-lined open parkland layout that averages a massively long 106.1 yards per par. It ranks as the 8th longest course played on Tour over the past few years. From an agronomy standpoint, fairways and greens are bentgrass while the rough is a combination of fescue in the intermediate area and thick, lush, 4-inch bluegrass in the main area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Delaware is not known for its scenery, the course is situated amidst the rolling hills of the Wilmington countryside. There are continual elevation changes including numerous downhill tee shots and uphill approaches leading to the greens. As designer Robert Trent Jones is famous for, the course is characterized by heavily bunkered fairways and greens. When viewing the bunkers from the course flyover (below), they are massive, and the ones bordering the greens are built into the uphill slopes of the elevated green complexes. This will lead to some challenging lies. Water is in play on four holes and mostly presents a danger on approaches to the green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A comprehensive course preview of Wilmington Country Club, host of the 2022 BMW Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4882,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"bs_types":[14,15],"bs_tags":[128,29,73],"class_list":["post-4875","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","bs_type-betting","bs_type-fantasy","bs_tag-bmw-championship","bs_tag-golf-betting","bs_tag-golf-dfs"],"acf":false,"featured_image":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1660397033873.jpg","tags_list":[{"id":128,"name":"BMW Championship","slug":"bmw-championship"},{"id":29,"name":"Golf Betting","slug":"golf-betting"},{"id":73,"name":"Golf DFS","slug":"golf-dfs"}],"types_list":[{"id":14,"name":"Betting"},{"id":15,"name":"Fantasy"}],"bs_author":{"name":"Ron Klos","profile_image":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ron-Klos-150x150.jpg"},"bs_term_name":null,"is_paid":"true","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bs_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bs_types?post=4875"},{"taxonomy":"bs_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bs_tags?post=4875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}