Spaun wins BMW PGA, fueled by Presidents Cup snub — SkimNews
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- J.J. Spaun fired a 5-under 67 with four birdies over his final five holes to win the BMW PGA Championship at 17-under 271, two shots clear of a four-way tie for second.
- Spaun said being passed over for the Presidents Cup — where U.S. captain Brandt Snedeker used his final picks on Jacob Bridgeman and Jackson Koivun — gave him "extra motivation," after he went 2-1-0 in his Ryder Cup debut last September.
- Manuel Elvira tied Spaun with a 9-foot eagle on the par-5 17th but unraveled on 18, laying up into a fairway bunker, going over the green and chipping into another bunker for a double bogey and a 70.
- Rory McIlroy (68), Adam Scott (68) and PGA champion Aaron Rai (66) joined Elvira in the four-way tie for second, with McIlroy missing an 8-foot birdie try from the fringe at 18.
- McIlroy's runner-up — his best finish since winning the Masters — trimmed Patrick Reed's lead in the Race to Dubai as McIlroy chases an eighth season title to tie Colin Montgomerie's record.
- Spaun, the 2024 U.S. Open champion at Oakmont, became the third American to win at Wentworth in six years and collected his fourth career title — his second of 2025 after April's Texas Open — pushing him just outside the world top 10.
Why it matters: Spaun's snub-driven win delivers a fourth career title and vaults him into the top-10 conversation ahead of next week's Presidents Cup, where the American side will compete without the man who just won Europe's flagship event. McIlroy, meanwhile, kept his Race to Dubai title hopes alive by trimming Reed's lead while still seeking his first win since April's Masters.
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