{"id":63956,"date":"2025-08-12T12:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/63956\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T12:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:29:11","slug":"sepp-straka-withdraws-from-bmw-championship-due-to-a-private-family-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/63956\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepp Straka withdraws from BMW Championship due to a &#8216;private family matter&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t play the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/golf\/pga\/fedex-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FedEx Cup Playoffs 2025;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FedEx Cup Playoffs 2025<\/a> postseason opener in Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/golf\/pga\/leaderboard\/5008085\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BMW Championship;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BMW Championship<\/a> at Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills, Maryland.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Sepp Straka walks down the first fairway during the third round of the 2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/d792d5519227e21dcb5d7aab4e0bf710.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>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<p>Why is Sepp Straka going to miss the BMW Championship?<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released by the PGA Tour:<\/p>\n<p>Straka is fifth in the FedEx Cup Playoffs standings. He tied for 17th at the FedEx St. Jude Championship on Sunday. He&#8217;s also currently sixth in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rydercup.com\/eu-rankings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ryder Cup European team rankings;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ryder Cup European team rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Straka won The American Express and the Truist Championship earlier this season. He&#8217;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&#8217;s collected four wins.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Golfweek: <a href=\"https:\/\/golfweek.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/golf\/pga\/2025\/08\/11\/bmw-championship-sepp-straka-withdraws-private-family-matter-pga-tour\/85614861007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BMW Championship: Sepp Straka withdraws due to &#039;private family matter&#039;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BMW Championship: Sepp Straka withdraws due to &#8216;private family matter&#8217;<\/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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[38825,41093,49,48,41092,28717,622,3747,33235,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-63956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-bmw-championship","9":"tag-butler-melnyk","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-caves-valley-golf-club","13":"tag-fedex-cup-playoffs","14":"tag-golf","15":"tag-pga-tour","16":"tag-sepp-straka","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}