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Sunday 9 September 2007PGA TourYear in Review
Woods wins BMW Championship
Cog Hill Golf & Country Club, Lemont, Illinois, USA · Thursday 6 to Sunday 9 September 2007 · Tiger Woods’s win no. 60 on the PGA Tour · purse $7,000,000 USD · BMW
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
12 h 33 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 53° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R127°/22°C · wind 26 km/h SSW, gusts 56 · 3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R228°/22°C · wind 25 km/h SW, gusts 77 · 8.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R326°/18°C · wind 16 km/h NE, gusts 32 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R427°/17°C · wind 14 km/h NNE, gusts 37 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.
The ones it got away from
- Aaron Baddeley AUS · 264birdie-for-birdie with Woods and Stricker on the back nine but, by his own account, did not get his approaches close enough coming down the stretch; closed 66, two back ASAP Sports transcript: Aaron Baddeley, BMW Championship, 2007-09-09
67 started, 65 made it
Same week
PGA Tour event
BMW Championship
Cog Hill Golf & Country Club, Cog Hill Golf & Country Club, Lemont, Illinois, USA
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Tiger Woods
Runner-up not yet researched.
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
9 September 2007
I never, ever would have dreamt that this could have happened this soon. I've been out here, what, 11 years, my 12th season, I believe.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
9 September 2007
Here if I made a bogey I was just going to get run over.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
9 September 2007
Yeah, I feel like I did well in that I didn't lose the golf tournament, he won it. Shooting 8-under to win a golf tournament is a heck of a round.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiger Woods | 67 · 67 · 65 · 63 | 262 | −22 |
| 2 | Aaron Baddeley | 68 · 65 · 65 · 66 | 264 | −20 |
| 3 | Steve Stricker | 68 · 66 · 64 · 68 | 266 | −18 |
| 4 | Adam Scott | 69 · 69 · 67 · 65 | 270 | −14 |
| T5 | Tim Clark | 68 · 69 · 67 · 67 | 271 | −13 |
| T5 | Justin Rose | 65 · 69 · 69 · 68 | 271 | −13 |
| T7 | Stewart Cink | 66 · 73 · 68 · 65 | 272 | −12 |
| T7 | Camilo Villegas | 65 · 69 · 71 · 67 | 272 | −12 |
| 9 | Sergio Garcia | 68 · 70 · 69 · 67 | 274 | −10 |
| T10 | Rory Sabbatini | 69 · 72 · 68 · 66 | 275 | −9 |
| T10 | Ian Poulter | 68 · 72 · 69 · 66 | 275 | −9 |
| T10 | Carl Pettersson | 71 · 68 · 69 · 67 | 275 | −9 |
| T10 | Jonathan Byrd | 64 · 69 · 71 · 71 | 275 | −9 |
The golfer
born 1975-12-30, Cypress, California; USA; turned pro 1996; age 31 that week; tour wins to date: 60; majors to date: 13; world No. 1 that week (OWGR rankBefore as stated by OWGR player profile events table).
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet