BMW Championship to shift to Baltimore in 2021

The BMW Championship is heading east next year.

Tournament officials announced Thursday that the FedExCup Playoff event will be staged at Caves Valley Golf Club outside Baltimore in 2021. It will be the first time the PGA Tour has held a tournament in the Baltimore area since 1962, and would be the first Tour event in the state of Maryland since the Quicken Loans National folded in 2018.

News of the move was first reported by the Baltimore Sun.

The move continues a recent trend of visiting new markets for the BMW, which is annually run by the Western Golf Association. In the FedExCup era, the tournament has also been held in St. Louis (2008), Indianapolis (2012 and 2016), Denver (2014) and…