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 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Vijay Singh67−42 Jim Furyk68−3T3 Bob Estes69−2 Scott Hoch Mark James Phil Mickelson Nick PriceT8 Jeff Maggert70−1 Colin Montgomerie Chris Perry Jarmo Sandelin
Second round PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 Tim Herron71-66=137−5 Chris Perry70-67=137T3 Justin Leonard71-67=138−4 Vijay Singh67-71=138T5 Fred Funk71-68=139−3 Scott Hoch69-70=139 Mark James69-70=139 Tom Lehman72-67=139T9 Stewart Cink75-65=140−2 Miguel Ángel Jiménez72-68=140 Phil Mickelson69-71=140 Nick Price69-71=140 David Toms72-68=140 Lee Westwood73-67=140 Tiger Woods71-69=140
Third round PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 Miguel Ángel Jiménez72-68-69=209−4 Chris Perry70-67-72=209T3 Tom Lehman72-67-71=210−3 Justin Leonard71-67-72=210 Nick Price69-71-70=210 Hal Sutton75-66-69=210 Tiger Woods71-69-70=210T8 Stewart Cink75-65-71=211 −2 Scott Hoch69-70-72=211 José María Olazábal73-69-69=211 David Toms72-68-71=211 Lee Westwood73-67-71=211
Final round PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)T1 Tiger Woods 71-69-70-68=278 −6 Playoff Miguel Ángel Jiménez 72-68-69-69=278 3 Dudley Hart 75-68-70-70=283 −1 300,000T4 Stewart Cink 75-65-71-73=284 E 176,667 Nick Price 69-71-70-74=284 Lee Westwood 73-67-71-73=284T7 Fred Funk 71-68-74-72=285 +1 135,000 Sergio García 74-69-69-73=285 Scott Hoch 69-70-72-74=285 Chris Perry 70-67-72-76=285
Playoff PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)1 Tiger Woods 3 −11,000,0002 Miguel Ángel Jiménez 5 +1400,000 Played on the par-4 18th hole,ScorecardJimenez makes bogeyTiger Makes Bridie
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