Andrew Kerth 
The BMW Championship has crowned 19 winners since it took its current name in 2007, and the list reads like a modern golf hall of fame: Tiger Woods won the first one (and the first FedEx Cup with it), Rory McIlroy and Dustin Johnson each collected it during peak stretches, Patrick Cantlay went back-to-back, and … Read more
Thirty golfers advance from the BMW Championship to the Tour Championship — the top 30 in FedEx Cup points when play ends Sunday at Bellerive. That single number is the week’s real scoreboard: the 50-man field will be trimmed to the 30 who continue to East Lake in Atlanta for the season finale and its … Read more
No — the BMW Championship does not have a cut. All 50 players who qualify for the second leg of the FedEx Cup Playoffs play the full 72 holes at Bellerive Country Club, and every one of them earns a share of the $20 million purse, from $3.6 million for the winner down to a … Read more
Every one of the 50 golfers at the 2026 BMW Championship is guaranteed a payday. With no cut at Bellerive Country Club, the $20 million purse is distributed across the entire field: $3.6 million to the winner, $2.16 million to the runner-up, six figures for everyone who finishes 40th or better, and $66,000 to whoever … Read more
The 2026 BMW Championship purse is $20 million, with $3,600,000 going to the winner — the PGA Tour’s standard 18 percent share — at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, August 20-23. It’s the second leg of the FedEx Cup Playoffs, and because the 50-player field has no cut, every golfer who tees it up … Read more
Forty American teams have won the Little League World Series — from the Maynard Midgets of Williamsport, who beat Lock Haven 16-7 in the first tournament in 1947, to Lake Mary, Florida’s extra-inning win over Taiwan in 2024. They span 15 states and eight decades, and the list doubles as a map of American youth … Read more
Thirty-eight times in Little League World Series history, the trophy has left the United States. Since Monterrey, Mexico’s Industrial Little League broke through in 1957 behind Angel Macias’s championship-game perfect game, international teams from six countries — Mexico, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Venezuela, and Curacao — have beaten the American champion in the final, including … Read more
California has won the most Little League World Series championships of any U.S. state — eight titles, from El Cajon in 1961 to El Segundo’s walk-off in 2023 — and no other state is particularly close. Connecticut, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey sit next with four apiece, and in all just 15 of the 50 … Read more
The United States has won the most Little League World Series championships — 40 of the 78 played since 1947 — but the raw number hides the real story. Ten of those titles came before 1957, when no international team had ever won, and since the tournament went truly global the U.S. share is barely … Read more
The Little League World Series has crowned a champion in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania every summer since 1947 — 78 championship games in all, with only the pandemic year of 2020 missing from the record. The list below is the complete history: every final, every score, and every runner-up, from the Maynard Midgets’ 16-7 win in … Read more