Guarantee Your Ticket to the 2014 BMW Championship at Cherry Hills

Jon Rizzi

The top 70 players in the world will be competing at Cherry Hills next September as the PGA TOUR returns to Colorado for the first time since 2006.

Will you get to see them?

Striving for what the organizers call an “intimate, up-close-and-personal spectator experience unlike any other,” the BMW Championship has limited the number of tickets that will go on sale at the end of August. That’s just weeks from now.

How can you be sure you’ll get yours?

The Western Golf Association, which runs the event, has established a Priority Ticket Program that will allow fans to purchase tickets up to 48 hours before the general public can.

Register now at www.BMWChampionshipUSA.com. You don’t have to purchase your ticket yet but don't wait too long.

Daily ticket prices will range from $25 for practice rounds to $300 for an upgraded weekly ticket package that includes access to an upscale hospitality pavilion complete with air-conditioning and upgraded food and beverage service.

“Golf fans who sign up for the Priority Ticket Program will have peace-of-mind, knowing they will be the first to be able to purchase their tickets,” says Western Golf Association Vice President of Tournaments Vince Pelligrino. “It gets you out ahead of everyone else.”

In addition to getting first dibs on tickets, Priority Program registrants are automatically entered in a drawing to receive a pin flag signed by Colorado sports legends John Elway, Peyton Manning, Chauncey Billups and John Lynch.

Another incentive to sign up and to go is that all proceeds from the BMW Championship benefit the Evans Scholars Foundation, the caddie scholarship program administered by the WGA. To date, the program has provided more than 9,800 caddies across the country with full housing and tuition scholarships to college. Currently, 840 caddies are attending college on scholarship, with 40 of them at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Since 2007, the BMW Championship has raised more than $14 million for the Evans Scholars.

Pelligrino is an Evans Scholar alumnus. So is BMW Championship General Chairman George Solich, the Cherry Hills member who was instrumental in bringing the championship to the 91-year-old course.

“With direction and enthusiasm from the community in Denver, all signs point to a very successful event,” says Pelligrino, who hints that strong advance sales and attendance will go a long way in securing the Mile High City's spot in the rotation of future BMW Championship sites.

The 2014 BMW Championship will take place September 1-7, 2014.

Colorado AvidGolfer is the state’s leading resource for golf and the lifestyle that surrounds it. It publishes eight issues annually and proudly delivers daily content via www.coloradoavidgolfer.com. Jon Rizzi is the founding editor and co-owner of this regional golf-related media company producing magazines, web content, tournaments, events and the Golf Passport.