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CHAMPIONSHIP
TICKETS AND HOSPITALITY
GENERAL INFORMATION
HOST COURSE
WORLD GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS
VOLUNTEERS
| CA Championship Notebook: Pre-Event Details 
Eligible Players Are: FedExCup points: 26,250 (4,725 to the champion) • The 2007 World Golf Championships-CA Championship will have an $8 million purse, with the game's top players competing for the $1.35 million first-place prize and the Gene Sarazen Cup. The event is also a part of the PGA TOUR's new FedExCup, the season-long competition where PGA TOUR member players will amass points based on their performance. • One of three World Golf Championships events, the CA Championship will feature the top-50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking along with top finishers on the money lists of the six Tours comprising the International Federation of PGA Tours (PGA TOUR, European Tour, Australasian Tour, Japan Golf Tour, Asian Tour and Sunshine Tour). The first two rounds will be televised by the Golf Channel, and NBC will broadcast the final two rounds. The tournament will be televised in 140 countries. • Some of golf's best players have emerged victorious during the tournament's seven-year history. Tiger Woods counts five victories in this tournament among his 13 World Golf Championships titles. He won the inaugural event in 1999 at Valderrama in Spain and followed that up with victories in 2002 in Ireland, and in 2003 and 2005 in the United States. Last year, he was victorious in London. In 2000, Canadian Mike Weir captured the title, and in 2004, Ernie Els of South Africa triumphed. • The World Golf Championships feature elite players in a variety of competitive formats at venues around the world. Since the series debut in 1999, World Golf Championships have been held in 10 countries. The CA Championship has been played five times in Europe and twice previously in the United States. OTHER NOTES: • World Golf Championships-CA Championship in Ireland in 2004, where he edged Thomas Bjorn by one stroke. The victory for Els was his last PGA TOUR win.
• Entering the CA Championship, Stuart Appleby has competed in all 24 official World Golf Championship events -- tops among all players since the series inception in 1999. His best finish among the 23 was T2 at the 2003 CA Championship at the Capital City Club in Georgia. • Entering the CA Championship, Padraig Harrington has competed in 23 consecutive official World Golf Championship events -- he did not qualify for the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in 1999 but has played in every event subsequently. 2006 AMERICAN EXPRESS CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTNOTES: • Brett Wetterich, playing in his first American Express Championship, led the 17 first-time participants with a tie for sixth in 2006. Brett Quigley (T9) also posted a top-10 in his first American Express Championship start. • In the seven years of the American Express Championship, the 54-hole leader/co-leader has won four times, Tiger Woods in 2002, 2003 and 2005, and Ernie Els in 2004. • Tiger Woods (2002, 2005, 2006) and Ernie Els (2004) are the only American Express Championship winners to record four rounds in the 60s. • Three players managed to post four rounds in the 60s in 2006: Tiger Woods, Adam Scott and Jim Furyk. A total of 15 players since the tournament's inception in 1999 have carded four rounds in the 60s. 2006 FORD CHAMPIONSHIP AT DORAL FOOTNOTES: • Since 1990 every winner of the Ford Championship at Doral, except Steve Elkington, has had ties to the state of Florida (birthplace and/or residence) at the time of his victory. Elkington won this event in 1997 and again in 1999. Prior to Elkington, 1989 winner Bill Glasson was the last tournament champion at Doral who did not have a connection to Florida (birthplace, resident).Tiger Woods is a resident of the state. • In 2005, Tiger Woods set the tournament record with a 24-under 264, topping the old mark of 23-under 265 set by Greg Norman in 1993 and matched by Jim Furyk in 1999. • No tournament on the PGA TOUR schedule as old as the Ford Championship at Doral has had so few playoffs. In the 43-year history of the event -- all played at the Doral Golf Resort and Spa's Blue Course -- there have only been six playoffs, including 2004's one-hole playoff between Craig Parry and Scott Verplank. The first playoff occurred in 1980, 19 years after the tournament's inception, followed by playoffs in 1986, 1990, 1991, 2003 and 2004. Four of the five winners have won with a birdie, while Greg Norman won with an eagle in 1990 and Craig Parry had an eagle in 2004. • Here are the results of the only six playoffs in tournament history: • Craig Parry became the fifth foreign-born winner of the Ford Championship at Doral when he won in 2004, joining Greg Norman (1990, '93, '96), Nick Faldo (1995), Steve Elkington (1997, '99) and Ernie Els (2002). Eight times in the past 16 years a foreign-born player has won this event. There were no foreign-born winners during the first 28 years of this tournament. • Four times a player 40 or older has gone on to win the Ford Championship at Doral the most recent was Scott Hoch in 2003 when he was 47 years, 3 month, 15 days. In 1996, Greg Norman won at the age of 41 years, 22 days. Raymond Floyd, the 1992 champion, is the oldest winner at Doral at the age of 49 years, 6 months and 4 days and Gardner Dickinson was 40 years, 5 months, the day of his victory in 1968. • The record margin for the biggest come-from-behind victory at the Ford Championship at Doral is seven strokes by Greg Norman in 1990. Norman trailed Paul Azinger and Fred Couples by seven but fired a course-record final-round 10-under 62 to defeat Azinger, Mark Calcavecchia and Tim Simpson in a playoff.
• Experience counts at the Ford Championship at Doral -- only six players have earned their first PGA TOUR victory here. It has only happened once since 1980. They include: Dan Sikes (1963), Tom Shaw (1969), Mike Hill (1970), Andy Bean (1977), Mark McCumber (1979) and Rocco Mediate (1991). • Since 1962, just 13 players have been able to record four rounds in the 60s on the fabled Blue Monster course at Doral Golf Resort & Spa, including Tiger Woods in 2006. Jim Furyk has done it twice. Before Woods in 2006, Furyk was the last winner to post four rounds in the 60s. Copyright 2007 PGATOUR.com. All rights reserved. |
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