WGC-American Express Championship

The WGC-American Express Championship is one of the three annual World Golf Championships tournaments for male professional golfers. It is sanctioned and organized by the International Federation of PGA Tours and the prize money is official money on both the PGA TOUR and the European Tour.

The event is in the strokeplay format. Invitations are sent to top 50 players from the Official World Golf Rankings and to some leading players from the official money lists or orders of merit of the six International Federation of PGA Tours who do not meet the ranking criteria, in order to globalize the field. In 2004 the field was sixty-eight, which is less than half that for a standard professional golf event.

Like the Ryder Cup in the same year, the 2001 event, scheduled for Bellerive Country Club, St Louis, Missouri, in the United States, was cancelled due to 9/11.

Beginning in 2007, this event will be renamed the WGC-CA Championship and will displace the Ford Championship at Doral on the PGA TOUR's schedule. It will be played annually at Doral Golf Resort & Spa (as opposed to moving from course to course as in the past). It will take place in March as opposed to its previous late season slot (usually September).

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[edit] External link

• Official site