Just two tournaments remain of the 2026 PGA Tour season as attention turns to Bellerive Country Club, which will host the nomadic BMW Championship for the first time since 2008.
This is the second tournament of the FedEx Cup play-offs and all eyes will be on world number one Scottie Scheffler after he snapped a six-month winless spell with a dominant eight-shot victory at the FedEx St. Jude Championship last week.
Scheffler, who blew away a top-class field at TPC Southwind, was also successful in the BMW at last year's venue, Caves Valley, but this year he faces the prospect of an unfamiliar course, albeit one that should suit him to a tee.
Bellerive, a Missouri venue designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr, measures 7,448 yards, long for a par 70, and it is likely to play into the hands of powerful, straight drivers, although contoured green complexes will put pressure on second shots and short-game skills, too, making it a difficult all-round test.
The top 50 on the FedEx Cup standings are all expected to tee it up, then the top 30 at the conclusion of the BMW will move on to East Lake next week to contest the Tour Championship.
BMW Championship Tips Summary
Best Bet - Ludvig Aberg to win and each-way @ 18/1
Alternative Bet - Xander Schauffele to win and each-way @ 18/1
Alternative Bet - Justin Rose to win and each-way @ 60/1
BMW Championship Prediction
Best Bet: Ludvig Aberg to win and each-way @ 18/1
Given the examination that awaits at Bellerive, it's difficult to see Scheffler failing to contend for another PGA Tour title, although his odds reflect that and it could be worth taking him with a high-class trio.
The first of them is Ludvig Aberg, who has a game made for the demands of this course - he is long off the tee and a brilliant iron-player. There is every chance he could emulate Brooks Koepka, who won the 2018 US PGA Championship at Bellerive by pounding green after green on the way to victory.
Two previous BMW Championship appearances at different courses have resulted in form figures of 2-7, and he will tee it up in the event for a third time after finishing seventh in the St. Jude Championship, where he ranked first in strokes-gained off the tee.
Aberg, who was ninth at the Open Championship last month, has been a consistent threat on the PGA Tour this year and, at 10th on the FedEx Cup points list and guaranteed safe passage to East Lake, he will view this as something of a free hit.
Alternative Bet: Xander Schauffele to win and each-way @ 18/1
The best alternative to Aberg could be Xander Schauffele, who comes into the second event of the play-offs in excellent form having finished as solo runner-up at the Rocket Mortgage Classic and in a share of seventh at TPC Southwind last week.
Schauffele's ball-striking has been top-class of late, and he's gained strokes on the field with the putter in his last two starts, suggesting that a first victory of the year could be on the horizon.
Schauffele can also call upon positive Bellerive experience, finishing in a respectable 35th place at the 2018 PGA when still cutting his teeth at the top level.
Alternative Bet: Justin Rose to win and each-way @ 60/1
Big-priced winners of this event have been few and far between in recent years, but Justin Rose is the type of experienced, classy operator who is capable of bucking that trend.
Rose won the Farmers Insurance Open at the start of the year, then finished third in the Masters, and while he hasn't been at his best since, there was a lot to like about the final-round 64 that the Englishman fired at Southwind on Sunday.
The 46-year-old, poised for another Tour Championship appearance at 24th on the FedEx Cup points list, carded four under-par rounds when 19th at Bellerive in 2018 and he's shown he still has the all-round game to cope with a test such as this.
Key BMW Championship Stats
Bellerive Country Club is a 7,448-yard par-70 layout featuring four par-threes, 12 par-fours and two par-fives
The Missouri venue hosted the 2008 BMW Championship, won by Camilo Villegas
Brooks Koepka ranked second in driving distance when winning the 2018 US PGA Championship at Bellerive
Six of the last seven BMW Championship winners were ranked in the world's top 10 at the time
Scottie Scheffler has finished in the top four in nine of his last 12 tournaments
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