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Sunday 18 September 2011PGA TourYear in Review
Rose wins BMW Championship
Cog Hill Golf & Country Club, Lemont, Illinois, USA · Thursday 15 to Sunday 18 September 2011 · Justin Rose’s win no. 3 on the PGA Tour · purse $8,000,000 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 07 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 49° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R115°/5°C · wind 18 km/h N, gusts 40 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R214°/7°C · wind 10 km/h E, gusts 21 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R321°/11°C · wind 19 km/h E, gusts 33 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R419°/13°C · wind 18 km/h SE, gusts 39 · 11.2 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
- John Senden AUS · 273played bogey-free in the rain and closed with 70, cutting Rose's five-shot lead to one, but Rose chipped in for birdie on the 17th to restore his lead and won by two Justin Rose wins BMW Championship (AP via ESPN)
70 started, 69 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
Justin Rose
Runner-up not yet researched.
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
18 September 2011
I nearly took the chicken stick out there and putted it on 17, and I had a little chat with myself.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
18 September 2011
I asked him, I said, what do you like, and he said, I see it as a 54 landing on the green, bit of check, run it, releasing. Had he said putter, I would have putted it
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
18 September 2011
I needed to really sort of go for it rather than protect at that point during the middle of the round, and I knew that I really wanted to catch him and win the golf tournament.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Justin Rose | 63 · 68 · 69 · 71 | 271 | −13 |
| 2 | John Senden | 68 · 66 · 70 · 69 | 273 | −11 |
| 3 | Geoff Ogilvy | 69 · 68 · 68 · 69 | 274 | −10 |
| 4 | Luke Donald | 75 · 66 · 67 · 68 | 276 | −8 |
| 5 | Webb Simpson | 65 · 68 · 73 · 71 | 277 | −7 |
| T6 | Camilo Villegas | 68 · 73 · 71 · 66 | 278 | −6 |
| T6 | Jason Dufner | 71 · 68 · 71 · 68 | 278 | −6 |
| 8 | Chez Reavie | 69 · 70 · 70 · 70 | 279 | −5 |
| 9 | Brandt Jobe | 75 · 64 · 69 · 72 | 280 | −4 |
| T10 | K.J. Choi | 67 · 71 · 73 · 70 | 281 | −3 |
| T10 | David Toms | 71 · 66 · 73 · 71 | 281 | −3 |
The golfer
born 1980-07-30, Johannesburg, South Africa; ENG; turned pro 1998; age 31 that week; tour wins to date: 3; majors to date: 0; world No. 40 that week (OWGR rankBefore as stated by OWGR player profile events table).
What’s in the bag
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