{"id":61812,"date":"2025-08-12T05:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/61812\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T05:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:54:09","slug":"sepp-straka-withdraws-from-bmw-championship-due-to-a-private-family-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/61812\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepp Straka withdraws from BMW Championship due to a ‘private family matter’"},"content":{"rendered":"

As was the case a week ago, there will be one player missing from the field among the qualifiers on the PGA Tour. Last week, Rory McIlroy didn’t play the FedEx Cup Playoffs 2025<\/a> postseason opener in Memphis.<\/p>\n

This week, the 10th-ranked player in the world, who is a two-time winner this season, will miss out on the action at the BMW Championship<\/a> at Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills, Maryland.<\/p>\n

\"Sepp<\/p>\n

Sepp Straka walks down the first fairway during the third round of the 2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis.<\/p>\n

Why is Sepp Straka going to miss the BMW Championship?<\/p>\n

In a statement released by the PGA Tour:<\/p>\n

Straka is fifth in the FedEx Cup Playoffs standings. He tied for 17th at the FedEx St. Jude Championship on Sunday. He’s also currently sixth in the Ryder Cup European team rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Straka won The American Express and the Truist Championship earlier this season. He’s one of six golfers to have won at least two events in 2025. He has six top-10s this season and in his PGA Tour career, he’s collected four wins.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: BMW Championship: Sepp Straka withdraws due to ‘private family matter’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As was the case a week ago, there will be one player missing from the field among the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,32034,49886,49885,42704,755,1747,49884,85],"class_list":["post-61812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bmw-championship","tag-butler-melnyk","tag-caves-valley-golf-club","tag-fedex-cup-playoffs","tag-golf","tag-pga-tour","tag-sepp-straka","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}