5 things from 2024 BMW Championship including Keegan Bradley leading the way and several stars lurking

CASTLE ROCK, Colo. – Castle Pines Golf Club has been the big star for three rounds as it hosts the PGA Tour for the first time since 2006. 

“If you owned both Heaven and Castle Pines, you’d rent out Heaven and live at Castle Pines,” Rick Reilly once wrote.

From the mountain vistas to the milkshakes in the locker room, Castle Pines has been a hit this week. But soft conditions on Friday allowed two 63s to be posted. Not so much on Saturday as the wind swirled out of the southwest up to 25 miles per hour. 

“It kind of got my attention,” said Alex Noren.

“It was sneaky hard,” Ludvig Aberg said. “The wind was tricky.”

On the NBC telecast, Jim “Bones” Mackay, who caddied here at the International in the 1990s and until it bid adieu as a regular Tour stop in 2006, said of the front nine, “I’ve never caddied in as tough conditions as these guys went through with the wind.”

The course dried out and a potential late-afternoon thunderstorm missed the area on Saturday meaning the course could play even tougher for Sunday’s final round. As one observer put it, “It could be tasty.”

Here are five things to know about the third round of the BMW Championship.