Patrick Cantlay wins back to back 2022 BMW Championship at Wilmington CC

August 22, 2022

Patrick Cantlay becomes the first player to successfully defend a FedExCup Playoffs event, winning the BMW Championship by one stroke over Scott Stallings 

• Cantlay becomes the fifth player to defend a title this season, the most since 2007 
• Cantlay enters the TOUR Championship No. 2 in the standings in a bid to become the first back-to-back FedExCup Champion 
• World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (T3) regains the FedExCup lead one week after seeing his 23-week hold on the top spot come to an end 
• Three-time PGA TOUR winner Scott Stallings finishes runner-up for the third time to advance to the TOUR Championship for the first time in his 12-year TOUR career 
• Four players moved into the top 30 in the FedExCup to advance to the season-finale TOUR Championship: Stallings, K.H. Lee, Adam Scott, and Aaron Wise (four players tie the most since the FedExCup points structure changed in 2009) 
• Four players fell out of the top 30 and failed to advance to East Lake: J.J. Spaun, Joohyung Kim, Davis Riley, and Kevin Kisner 
• Two rookies advance to the TOUR Championship: Cameron Young, and Sahith Theegala 
• Jon Rahm and Adam Scott are the only two players to finish inside the top 10 in each of the first two Playoffs events 
• Rahm picks up his eighth consecutive top-10 finish in FedExCup Playoffs events, the longest streak in Playoffs history 

Patrick Cantlay (Winner/-14) Category	With the victory
Age	30 (March 17, 1992)
FedExCup	2
OWGR	3
Starts – wins – top-10s in PGA TOUR career	140-8-43
Starts – wins – top-10s on TOUR in 2021-22	19-2-11
Starts – wins – top-10s at BMW Championship	6-2-4

 

 

• First FedExCup Champion to win a FedExCup Playoffs event the following season 
• Moves from No. 7 to No. 2 in the FedExCup, advancing to the season finale for the fifth time in the last six seasons (2020/34th) 
• Picks up his TOUR-leading 11th top-10 finish of the season, his most in a single season on TOUR 
• Wins multiple times in a season for the second time (2020-21: four wins) 
• Ninth player to win multiple titles this season, tying the most in a single season in the last 20 years (2018-19): 

2021-22	2018-19
4, Scottie Scheffler	3, Bryson DeChambeau
3, Sam Burns	3, Dustin Johnson
3, Xander Schauffele	3, Justin Thomas
3, Cameron Smith	3, Bubba Watson
2, Patrick Cantlay	2, Jason Day
2, Tony Finau	2, Patton Kizzire
2, Max Homa	2, Brooks Koepka
2, Hideki Matsuyama	2, Francesco Molinari
2, Rory McIlroy	2, Justin Rose

• Second PGA TOUR event he has won multiple times (2019 and 2021 Memorial Tournament presented by Workday) 
• Cantlay and Schauffele, who were paired together all four rounds this week, won the 2022 Zurich Classic of New Orleans as teammates; the 2021 Ryder Cup partners have been paired together in eight out of their last 18 possible rounds on TOUR 
• Improves to 3-for-4 when holding the 54-hole lead/co-lead in individual stroke-play events (2022 BMW Championship/Won, 2021 TOUR Championship/Won, 2021 BMW Championship/Won, 2020 Shriners Children’s Open/T8); also held 54-hole lead/co-lead with teammate Xander Schauffele en route to 2022 Zurich Classic of New Orleans win 
• Has now recorded the 12th and 13th win by a third-round leader/co-leader at the BMW Championship since 2000; shared the lead with Bryson DeChambeau en route to a playoff win in 2021 

 

 

Miscellaneous notes 

• After entering the week No. 46 in the FedExCup standings, Scott Stallings (2nd) moves to No. 12 to advance to the TOUR Championship for the first time in 12 seasons on TOUR; owns a career-high seven top-10s this season, with four coming in his last six starts; was seeking to win in his 228th start since the most recent of his three TOUR wins (2014 Farmers Insurance Open) 
• World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (T3) regains the top spot in the FedExCup standings after falling to No. 2 last week (MC/FedEx St. Jude Championship), which snapped a streak of 23 consecutive weeks as FedExCup leader; led the field this week with 21 birdies 
• Xander Schauffele (T3) cards a final-round even-par 71 to finish three strokes behind Cantlay; was seeking to join Scottie Scheffler with four wins this season; currently, No. 4 in the FedExCup standings, advances to the TOUR Championship for the sixth time in as many seasons, having finished in the top five in the FedExCup in four of the last five years 
• Two-time AT&T Byron Nelson winner K.H. Lee (T5) closes with a 6-under 65 to tie Viktor Hovland (T35) for the low score of the day; one year after finishing No. 31 in the FedExCup, advances to the TOUR Championship for the first time in his fourth TOUR season 
• Following an even-par 71, Adam Scott (T5) moves from No. 45 to No. 29 in the FedExCup standings to advance to East Lake for the first time since 2019; picks up his 20th top-10 finish in FedExCup Playoffs events, second only to Dustin Johnson’s 23 
• Jon Rahm (T8) picks up his eighth consecutive top-10 finish in FedExCup Playoffs events, the longest streak in Playoffs history; Rahm and Scott are the only two players with top-10 finishes in each of the first two Playoffs events 
• Viktor Hovland (T35) makes a hole-in-one on the par-3 second hole, his second ace of the season and third on TOUR; becomes the only player with multiple aces this season (THE PLAYERS Championship/R3/No. 8); with the ace, BMW will contribute a four-year Evans Scholarship (full tuition and housing grant) to a deserving youth caddie 
• At No. 17 in the FedExCup standings, Hideki Matsuyama (T35) qualifies for the TOUR Championship for the ninth consecutive season, the longest active streak on TOUR 
• Collin Morikawa (T44) closes with an 8-over 79, his highest score in 252 rounds on TOUR (previous high: 77 on three occasions; most recent during the third round of the 2022 U.S. Open)