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1999 WGC-American Express Championship

Field	Value
name	1999 WGC-American Express Championship
dates	4–7 November 1999
location	Sotogrande, San Roque, Spain
course	Valderrama Golf Club
tour	PGA Tour
European Tour
par	71
yardage	6,830
field	62 players
cut	None
purse	$5,000,000
winners_share	$1,000,000
champion	USA Tiger Woods
score	278 (−6), playoff
next	2000

European Tour 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	Score	To par
1	FIJ Vijay Singh	67	−4
2	USA Jim Furyk	68	−3
T3	USA Bob Estes	69	−2
USA Scott Hoch
ENG Mark James
USA Phil Mickelson
ZWE Nick Price
T8	USA Jeff Maggert	70	−1
SCO Colin Montgomerie
USA Chris Perry
SWE Jarmo Sandelin

Second round

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

Third round

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

Final round

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

Playoff

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	USA Tiger Woods	3	−1	1,000,000
2	ESP Miguel Ángel Jiménez	5	+1	400,000

:*Played on the par-4 18th hole,

References

[http://www.golfprohelp.com/Scorecards/valderrama-golf-club-01.asp Scorecard]
[https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/golf/woods-in-a-world-of-his-own-741191.html Jimenez makes bogey]
[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vqoKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LE0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6476,1012565&dq=1999+american+express+championship&hl=en Tiger Makes Bridie]

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