BMW Championship 2026 50-man confirmed field plus tee times and prize money

Aug 17, 2026 - 15:15

The second PGA Tour play-off event of the season takes place at Bellerive Country Club this week.

The 2026 BMW Championship will see the top 50 players on tour this season battle it out.

Scheffler picked up the title at the BMW Championship last summer

World number one Scottie Scheffler extended his FedEx Cup lead to nearly 1,500 points with victory at the St Jude Championship on Sunday, easing to an eight stroke win.

He will now be hoping to defend his BMW Championship title too, having held off Robert MacIntyre at Caves Valley last summer.

Scheffler will be up against Rory McIlroy and co at Bellerive, the historic St. Louis course that hosted the 2018 PGA Championship.

Following the conclusion of the BMW, the field will be cut down again to the top 30 for the season-ending Tour Championship at East Lake next week.

BMW Championship: Dates and how to follow

The 2026 BMW Championship is taking place from Thursday, August 20 to Sunday, August 23.

It is being held at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, Missouri – the course is a par 70 and measures a mammoth 7,448 yards in length.

The players will be relieved that weather conditions are set to be around 28C throughout the week following temperatures exceeding 40C at the St Jude last week.

The BMW action will get underway at 1pm UK time each day.

talkSPORT 2 will have live coverage of all the action from Bellerive.

The action will be live on Sky Sports Golf each day from 3pm.

Scheffler is eyeing his second FedEx Cup title

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BMW Championship: Field and tee times

The second play-off event of the year has a limited field of 50 players – the top 50 in the season-long FedEx Cup standings.

19 of the world’s top 20 players will be in action, including Scheffler and McIlroy.

Matt McCarty was the 50th and final man to make the field with Keith Mitchell, Jordan Spieth and Max Homa the unlucky players to just miss out.

Also starring in Missouri will be Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose, Matt Fitzpatrick, Viktor Hovland and Ludvig Aberg.

Scotland’s MacIntyre withdrew from the St Jude due to a knee injury but is expected to tee it up this week.

The full field, tee times and pairings for the opening two days of action at can be found here – and the latest leaderboard can be found here.

This event has a $20million purse with $3.6m going to the champion.

Scottie Scheffler of the United States shakes hands with Rory McIlroy — Scheffler and McIlroy headline the action at Bellerive

BMW Championship: What has been said?

Scheffler shot a Friday 61 en route to his dominant victory at TPC Southwind last weekend.

“It’s not easy to win out here,” Scheffler said. “I felt like the year that I’ve had kind of shows how difficult it is.

“We have a lot of talented guys, and I played some really solid golf over the course of this year, but I hadn’t played much great golf.

“I have had my close calls and lost a couple play-offs. It was nice coming into a day during which I had the lead and was able to hold that lead and really kind of build on it as the round went on.

“I felt like a week like this was coming. I felt like I was on repeat all year just being like: ‘Hey, I’m playing solid. I’m close’.

“It feels good to be answering some different questions at the end of this week.”

McIlroy, meanwhile, finished a lowly 66th at the St Jude and admitted after that he is ‘so far away from where I need to be’.

“Obviously, I didn’t come in here with a ton of reps,” McIlroy said. “I felt like the more the week went on, the more I felt lost with my golf swing.

“Figured it out a little bit the last few holes today but my swing wasn’t in sync and I didn’t do a ton of practice coming in here.

“I’m going to have to work pretty hard, put my head down and grind between now and next Thursday to have any sort of golf game to compete next week.

“I’ll go to Bellerive Country Club and try to prepare for that golf course. But it’s more about the execution about what I’m doing right now and that wasn’t there this week.

“I am so far away from where I need to be to even feel like I have a chance so I’ve just got to keep working and hope it turns around a little bit.”