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WGC News
Interview with Ann Palmer: The Championship Director of the World Golf Championships - American Express Championship talks with us about this event
9/06/2000- Click here to read it
IRELAND ON SCHEDULE: Mount Juliet has been named as the venue for the 2002 World Golf Championships - American Express Championship. The Thomastown (Co Kilkenny) course has already hosted three Irish Opens on the European Tour: 1993, 1994 and 1995. The 2001 American Express Championship moves to Missouri after two years at Valderrama. Sahalee Country Club in Washington will be the venue for the 2002 World Golf Championships - NEC Invitational. The first two NEC Invitationals were held at Firestone in Akron and the third edition will also be held at the Ohio course. Announcing the change, US PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said: "One of the goals of the International Federation of PGA Tours is to bring the World Golf Championships to some of the worldŐs most acclaimed courses. We feel we are accomplishing these goals as we continue the globalisation of the game." World Golf Championships events will be held on five continents over the next two seasons.
01/11/2000-
WGC HISTORY: The American Express Championship is the third of four World Golf Championships in 2000. The Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship in California in February was won by Darren Clarke; and the NEC Invitational in Ohio in August, by Tiger Woods. A new addition to the WGC schedule this season is the EMC World Cup in Argentina in December. All tournaments are organised under the auspices of the International Federation of PGA Tours, formed in 1996 to "create and sanction world-class competitions for the gameŐs foremost international players". The winners of the inaugural WGCs in 1999 were: Andersen Consulting, Jeff Maggert; NEC Invitational, Tiger Woods; and American Express (also at Valderrama), Tiger Woods, who won on the first extra hole of sudden-death against Miguel Angel Jimenez.
24/10/2000-
WGC HONOURS SARAZEN: The winner of this year's World Golf Championships - American Express Championship will have his name inscribed on the Gene Sarazen Cup. Sarazen, who died this past summer aged 97, was the first player to win at least one of each of the four major championships - a feat matched by Tiger Woods this season. Sarazen is best-remembered for one of the most famous golf shots in history: at the 1935 Masters (then known as the Augusta National Invitational) he holed a 215-metre four-wood shot on Augusta's par-five 15th for an albatross (double eagle) two. Subsequent victory enabled him to become the first player to win what would become known as the modern-day professional Grand Slam.
05/10/2000-
RELIEF AT 17TH: Tiger Woods is unlikely to suffer a repeat of his bizarre triple bogey eight at Valderrama's 17th hole in last year's World Golf Championships - American Express Championship. Leading by two at the time, the American hit an accurate third to the centre of the green, but the ball rolled slowly past the pin and into the lake at the front of the green. For this year's event, club president Jaime Ortiz-Pati–o has lowered the slope of the green in order, he jokes, to prevent the ball going into the water so often. Several other holes have been expanded, with the seventh converted into a par-five.
05/10/2000-