WGC-CA Championship

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The WGC-CA 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. It was previously held each October, and known as the WGC-American Express Championship (1999-2006). It now takes place in March, and is currently sponsored by CA Inc.

During its first eight years, the CA Championship was played at different locations in the USA and Europe. Since 2007 it has been played annually in the United States, on the Blue Monster Course of the Doral Golf Resort & Spa, in Doral, Florida. Doral was previously the site of the tournament the CA Championship replaced on the PGA Tour schedule, the Ford Championship at Doral (aka Doral Open). Tiger Woods has won the event six times out of its ten stagings.

[edit] Tournament format and field

The CA Championship is played over 72 holes in the stroke play format. The starting field consists of:^[1]

• Top 50 players from the Official World Golf Rankings (one week and two weeks prior to event)
• Top players from member tours' money lists or orders of merit (from last complete season)
  • Top 30 PGA Tour FedEx Cup list (also top 10 from one week and two weeks prior to event)
  • Top 20 European Tour (also top 10 from one week and two weeks prior to event)
  • Top 3 each from Asian Tour, Japan Golf Tour, PGA Tour of Australasia, and Sunshine Tour

The field will consist of approximately 70 eligible players, half that (144 to 156 players) for most regular PGA Tour events. Because of the limited field, there is no 36-hole cut.

World Golf Championship events do not use the prize money breakdown formula employed at regular PGA Tour events. So, exact prize payouts for the CA Championship will not be known until the event is played.

[edit] Winners

See also Winners of the Doral Open, also played at Doral Golf Resort & Spa's Blue Monster Course

Year	Player	Country	Venue	Score
2009	Phil Mickelson	United States	Doral Golf Resort & Spa, Miami, Florida, USA	269 (-19)
2008	Geoff Ogilvy	Australia	Doral Golf Resort & Spa, Miami, Florida, USA	271 (-17)
2007	Tiger Woods (6)	United States	Doral Golf Resort & Spa, Miami, Florida, USA	278 (-10)
2006	Tiger Woods (5)	United States	The Grove, Hertfordshire, England	261 (-23)
2005	Tiger Woods (4)	United States	Harding Park Golf Club, San Francisco, USA	270 (-10)
2004	Ernie Els	South Africa	Mount Juliet Conrad, Republic of Ireland	270 (-18)
2003	Tiger Woods (3)	United States	Capital City Club, Atlanta, Georgia, USA	274 (-6)
2002	Tiger Woods (2)	United States	Mount Juliet Conrad, Republic of Ireland	263 (-25)
2001	Cancelled due to September 11 attacks		Bellerive Country Club, St Louis, Missouri, USA	N/A
2000	Mike Weir	Canada	Valderrama Golf Club, Spain	277 (-7)
1999	Tiger Woods	United States	Valderrama Golf Club, Spain	278 (-6)

Note - The 2001 tournament, which would have been contested at Bellerive Country Club, St Louis, Missouri, USA, was cancelled following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The attacks also forced cancellation of the Tampa Bay Classic, which would have been played the very same week. The attacks also forced the 2001 Ryder Cup Matches to be postponed until 2002.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official site
• WGC-CA Championship results since 1999 - Winners, Finishers, Scores and Earnings
• 2001 PGA Tour Schedule - from USA Today. Shows cancellations of Tampa Bay and WGC-American Express events