1999 WGC-American Express Championship

Golf tournament

1999 WGC-American Express ChampionshipTournament information

Dates| 4–7 November 1999
Location| Sotogrande, San Roque, Spain
Course(s)| Valderrama Golf Club
Tour(s)| PGA Tour
European Tour
Statistics
Par| 71
Length| 6,830
Field| 62 players
Cut| None
Prize fund| $5,000,000
Winner's share| $1,000,000
Champion
Tiger Woods
278 (−6), playoff

2000 ->

The 1999 WGC-American Express Championship was a golf tournament that was contested from 4–7 November 1999 at Valderrama Golf Club in Sotogrande, San Roque, Spain. It was the first WGC-American Express Championship tournament, and the third and final event in the inaugural year of the World Golf Championships.

World number 1, Tiger Woods won the tournament after defeating Miguel Ángel Jiménez in the first extra hole of a playoff. Woods held a four stroke lead going into the 17th hole but hit it into the water on the tough par 5 and ended up scoring a triple bogey that allowed Jiménez to get back in it.

## Field[edit]

1\. Top 50 from the Official World Golf Ranking as of 1 November

Stuart Appleby (2), Stewart Cink, Darren Clarke (3), Glen Day, Steve Elkington, Ernie Els (2,3), Bob Estes (2), Carlos Franco (2), Fred Funk (2), Jim Furyk (2), Sergio García (3), Brent Geiberger (2), Retief Goosen (3), Pádraig Harrington (3), Dudley Hart, Tim Herron (2), Scott Hoch, John Huston (2), Miguel Ángel Jiménez (3), Bernhard Langer (3), Paul Lawrie (3), Tom Lehman (2), Justin Leonard (2), Davis Love III (2), Jeff Maggert (2), Phil Mickelson (2), Colin Montgomerie (3), José María Olazábal, Naomichi Ozaki (6), Craig Parry, Steve Pate (2), Chris Perry (2), Nick Price (2), Loren Roberts (2), Vijay Singh (2), Jeff Sluman (2), Hal Sutton (2), David Toms (2), Bob Tway, Brian Watts, Lee Westwood (3), Tiger Woods (2)

* Payne Stewart (2) died in a plane crash on 25 October.
* Fred Couples, David Duval (2), Lee Janzen, Mark O'Meara, Masashi Ozaki, Jesper Parnevik, and Steve Stricker did not play.

2\. Top 30 on the 1999 PGA Tour money list through the Tour Championship

Notah Begay III, Dennis Paulson, Ted Tryba, Duffy Waldorf, Mike Weir

3\. Top 20 on the 1999 European Tour Order of Merit through the Volvo Masters

Thomas Bjørn, Ángel Cabrera, Alex Čejka, Mark James, Robert Karlsson, Bob May, Jarrod Moseley (4), Jarmo Sandelin, Jean van de Velde

* John Bickerton did not play.

4\. Top 3 on the 1998–99 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit

Rod Pampling, Craig Spence

5\. Top 3 on the 1998–99 Southern Africa Tour Order of Merit

Scott Dunlap, David Frost, Richard Kaplan

6\. Top 3 on the 1999 Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit through the Philip Morris Championship

Kazuhiko Hosokawa

* Shigeki Maruyama did not play.

## Round summaries[edit]

### First round[edit]

Place | Player | Score | To par

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|
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1 |  Vijay Singh | 67 | −4
2 |  Jim Furyk | 68 | −3
T3 |  Bob Estes | 69 | −2
Scott Hoch
Mark James
Phil Mickelson
Nick Price
T8 |  Jeff Maggert | 70 | −1
Colin Montgomerie
Chris Perry
Jarmo Sandelin

### Second round[edit]

Place | Player | Score | To par

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|
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T1 |  Tim Herron | 71-66=137 | −5
Chris Perry | 70-67=137
T3 |  Justin Leonard | 71-67=138 | −4
Vijay Singh | 67-71=138
T5 |  Fred Funk | 71-68=139 | −3
Scott Hoch | 69-70=139
Mark James | 69-70=139
Tom Lehman | 72-67=139
T9 |  Stewart Cink | 75-65=140 | −2
Miguel Ángel Jiménez | 72-68=140
Phil Mickelson | 69-71=140
Nick Price | 69-71=140
David Toms | 72-68=140
Lee Westwood | 73-67=140
Tiger Woods | 71-69=140

### Third round[edit]

Place | Player | Score | To par

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|
|

T1 |  Miguel Ángel Jiménez | 72-68-69=209 | −4
Chris Perry | 70-67-72=209
T3 |  Tom Lehman | 72-67-71=210 | −3
Justin Leonard | 71-67-72=210
Nick Price | 69-71-70=210
Hal Sutton | 75-66-69=210
Tiger Woods | 71-69-70=210
T8 |  Stewart Cink | 75-65-71=211 | −2
Scott Hoch | 69-70-72=211
José María Olazábal | 73-69-69=211
David Toms | 72-68-71=211
Lee Westwood | 73-67-71=211

### Final round[edit]

Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($)

|
|
|
|

T1 |  Tiger Woods | 71-69-70-68=278 | −6 | Playoff
Miguel Ángel Jiménez | 72-68-69-69=278
3 |  Dudley Hart | 75-68-70-70=283 | −1 | 300,000
T4 |  Stewart Cink | 75-65-71-73=284 | E | 176,667
Nick Price | 69-71-70-74=284
Lee Westwood | 73-67-71-73=284
T7 |  Fred Funk | 71-68-74-72=285 | +1 | 135,000
Sergio García | 74-69-69-73=285
Scott Hoch | 69-70-72-74=285
Chris Perry | 70-67-72-76=285

#### Playoff[edit]

Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($)

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|
|
|

1 |  Tiger Woods | 3 | −1 | 1,000,000
2 |  Miguel Ángel Jiménez | 5 | +1 | 400,000

* Played on the par-4 18th hole,[1][2][3]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Scorecard
2. ^ Jimenez makes bogey
3. ^ Tiger Makes Bridie

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