Tournaments / 2020-2021
BMW Championship
2021-08-26 · Caves Valley Golf Club
- Winner
- Patrick Cantlay
- Winning score
- -27
- Field
- 70
- Field strength
- +0.727 SG
The 2020-2021 BMW Championship was played at Caves Valley Golf Club, starting 26 August 2021. Patrick Cantlay won at 27 under par (261). The winning card was 66, 63, 66 and 66, and the win paid $1,710,000. Bryson DeChambeau finished second, and Sungjae Im was third. 70 players started the event. The field averaged +0.727 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline. The full leaderboard below lists every player's finish position, round scores and total to par. Every figure on this page comes from the published final leaderboard for the event — nothing here is estimated or modelled.
Final leaderboard
Top 20 of 70. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Patrick Cantlay
- Pos
- P1
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 261
- Bryson DeChambeau
- Pos
- P2
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 60
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 261
- Sungjae Im
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 265
- Rory McIlroy
- Pos
- 4
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 266
- Erik van Rooyen
- Pos
- 5
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 267
- Dustin Johnson
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 268
- Sergio Garcia
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 268
- Sam Burns
- Pos
- 8
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 269
- Abraham Ancer
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 270
- Alex Noren
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 270
- Jon Rahm
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 270
- Harold Varner III
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 271
- K.H. Lee
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 271
- Webb Simpson
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 271
- Jason Kokrak
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 272
- Tony Finau
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 63
- Total
- 272
- Aaron Wise
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 273
- Charl Schwartzel
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 273
- Hudson Swafford
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 273
- Kevin Na
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 273
Model score
Backtest · reconstructedOur course-fit model re-run as it would have seen this week — using only data that existed before the first tee shot — then compared with how the 69 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.359
- Top-20 hit rate
- 45%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 19.6
Grade is this event’s percentile (62nd) against every other event we have scored — not an absolute pass mark. Rank correlation runs −1 to +1, where 0 is a coin flip and a full-field golf model landing near +0.35 is a genuine read.
Who the model liked
Its top 10, and where they finished.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Jon Rahm | 1st | 9th |
| Xander Schauffele | 2nd | 49th |
| Collin Morikawa | 3rd | 63rd |
| Justin Thomas | 4th | 22nd |
| Bryson DeChambeau | 5th | 2nd |
| Daniel Berger | 6th | 26th |
| Dustin Johnson | 7th | 6th |
| Louis Oosthuizen | 8th | 38th |
| Rory McIlroy | 9th | 4th |
| Webb Simpson | 10th | 12th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Collin Morikawa | 3rd | 63rd(+60) |
| Erik van Rooyen | 58th | 5th(−53) |
| K.H. Lee | 65th | 12th(−53) |
| Hudson Swafford | 69th | 17th(−52) |
| Xander Schauffele | 2nd | 49th(+47) |
| Charl Schwartzel | 63rd | 17th(−46) |
| Aaron Wise | 55th | 17th(−38) |
| Russell Henley | 23rd | 60th(+37) |
| Alex Noren | 44th | 9th(−35) |
| Louis Oosthuizen | 8th | 38th(+30) |
One known caveat. Player stats, form and course history are all restricted to what existed before this event. The course archetype is not — it is derived from the venue’s full history, including this edition. That flatters the model slightly and equally at every venue. How the model works.
This event in the model
OTIS ranks every field on how well each player's game matches the course, then prices their chances. Both are published in full and graded afterwards.
This week's modelProbabilities and the track recordHow the model works
The venue
This event was played at Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills, Maryland, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
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Where these numbers come from
Finishes, round scores and to-par figures are the published final leaderboard for this event. Nothing is estimated or interpolated — where no value was published, this page shows a gap rather than a guess. Full sourcing notes are on the methodology page, and every stat name is defined in the glossary.