Arizona (Phoenix), Utah (Salt Lake City) and California (San Francisco, Los Angeles). In 1923, it was held in Tennessee at the Colonial Country Club in Beginning in 1962, the Western Open settled within the Chicago metropolitan area and was held at a variety of courses through 1973. In 1974, it found an annual home at the Butler National Golf Club in Oak Brook, a western suburb. It was played here through 1990, when the PGA Tour adopted a policy of holding events only at clubs which allowed minorities and women to be members. It moved in 1991 to Cog Hill Golf & Country Club in Lemont, southwest of Chicago. A 72-hole public complex, its Dubsdread Course hosted the Western Open for sixteen editions, through 2006. In 1899, the prize fund was $150, and Willie Smith's winner's share was fifty dollars. The purse in 2006 was $5 million, with $900,000 to the final winner, Trevor Immelman. During the second round of the 1975 tournament, Lee Trevino and Jerry Heard were struck by lightning on the 13th green of Butler National while waiting out a rain delay. Also struck at other parts of the course were Bobby Nichols, Jim Ahern, and Tony Jacklin. BMW Championship In 2007, the Western Open was renamed—and changed in terms of invitational criteria—to the BMW Championship, part of the four-event FedEx Cup Playoff Series. The Western Golf Association continues to run the tournament. The BMW Championship is the last FedEx Cup playoff event before The Tour Championship Winners References External links Official site of the BMW Championship Coverage on the PGA Tour's official site Former PGA Tour events Golf in Illinois Golf in Chicago Golf in Michigan Golf in Pennsylvania Golf in Oregon Golf in California Golf in Ohio Golf in Missouri Golf in Iowa Golf in New York (state) Golf in Utah Golf in Minnesota Golf in Arizona Golf in Texas Golf in Indiana Golf in Tennessee Golf in Wisconsin Sports in the Midwestern United States Recurring sporting events established in 1899 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2006 1899 establishments in Illinois 2006 disestablishments in Illinois