1999 WGC-American Express Championship

1999 WGC-American Express Championship

Tournament 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
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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[]

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[]

First round[]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Vijay Singh	Fiji	67	–4
2	Jim Furyk	United States	68	–3
T3	Bob Estes	United States	69	–2
	Scott Hoch	United States
	Mark James	England
	Phil Mickelson	United States
	Nick Price	Zimbabwe
T8	Jeff Maggert	United States	70	–1
	Colin Montgomerie	Scotland
	Chris Perry	United States
	Jarmo Sandelin	Sweden

Second round[]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
T1	Tim Herron	United States	71-66=137	–5
	Chris Perry	United States	70-67=137
T3	Justin Leonard	United States	71-67=138	–4
	Vijay Singh	Fiji	67-71=138
T5	Fred Funk	United States	71-68=139	–3
	Scott Hoch	United States	69-70=139
	Mark James	England	69-70=139
	Tom Lehman	United States	72-67=139
T9	Stewart Cink	United States	75-65=140	–2
	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	Spain	72-68=140
	Phil Mickelson	United States	69-71=140
	Nick Price	Zimbabwe	69-71=140
	David Toms	United States	72-68=140
	Lee Westwood	England	73-67=140
	Tiger Woods	United States	71-69=140

Third round[]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
T1	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	Spain	72-68-69=209	–4
	Chris Perry	United States	70-67-72=209
T3	Tom Lehman	United States	72-67-71=210	–3
	Justin Leonard	United States	71-67-72=210
	Nick Price	Zimbabwe	69-71-70=210
	Hal Sutton	United States	75-66-69=210
	Tiger Woods	United States	71-69-70=210
T8	Stewart Cink	United States	75-65-71=211	–2
	Scott Hoch	United States	69-70-72=211
	José María Olazábal	Spain	73-69-69=211
	David Toms	United States	72-68-71=211
	Lee Westwood	England	73-67-71=211

Final round[]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
T1	Tiger Woods	United States	71-69-70-68=278	–6	Playoff
	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	Spain	72-68-69-69=278
3	Dudley Hart	United States	75-68-70-70=283	–1	300,000
T4	Stewart Cink	United States	75-65-71-73=284	E	176,667
	Nick Price	Zimbabwe	69-71-70-74=284
	Lee Westwood	England	73-67-71-73=284
T7	Fred Funk	United States	71-68-74-72=285	+1	135,000
	Sergio García	Spain	74-69-69-73=285
	Scott Hoch	United States	69-70-72-74=285
	Chris Perry	United States	70-67-72-76=285

Playoff[]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Tiger Woods	United States	3	−1	1,000,000
2	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	Spain	5	+1	400,000

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

References[]

External links[]

• Full results

Coordinates: 36°17′09″N 5°20′02″W / 36.28583°N 5.33389°W / 36.28583; -5.33389