The 2000 WGC-American Express Championship was a golf tournament that was contested from 9–12 November 2000 at Valderrama Golf Club in Sotogrande, San Roque, Spain. It was the second WGC-American Express Championship tournament, and the third of four World Golf Championships events that year.
Mike Weir won the tournament after he birdied five of his first 11 holes on Sunday.
Field 1. Top 50 from the Official World Golf Ranking as of 30 October Robert Allenby (2), Stuart Appleby (2), Thomas Bjørn (3), Michael Campbell (3,4), Darren Clarke (3), José Cóceres (3), Ernie Els (2,3), Steve Flesch (2), Carlos Franco (2), Sergio García, Retief Goosen (3), Pádraig Harrington (3), Dudley Hart, Scott Hoch, Miguel Ángel Jiménez (3), Bernhard Langer (3), Justin Leonard (2), Jeff Maggert, Shigeki Maruyama, Bob May (2), Rocco Mediate, Colin Montgomerie (3), José María Olazábal (3), Naomichi Ozaki, Jesper Parnevik (2), Dennis Paulson, Chris Perry (2), Nick Price (2), Eduardo Romero (3), Vijay Singh (2), David Toms (2), Kirk Triplett (2), Scott Verplank (2), Duffy Waldorf, Mike Weir (2), Lee Westwood (3), Tiger Woods (2)
Paul Azinger (2), Notah Begay III (2), Stewart Cink (2), Fred Couples, David Duval (2), Jim Furyk (2), John Huston (2), Tom Lehman (2), Davis Love III (2), Phil Mickelson (2), Greg Norman, Loren Roberts (2), and Hal Sutton (2) did not play.
2. Top 30 on the 2000 PGA Tour money list through the National Car Rental Golf Classic Disney Mark Calcavecchia, Chris DiMarco, Franklin Langham
3. Top 20 on the 2000 European Tour Order of Merit through the Volvo Masters Ángel Cabrera, Andrew Coltart, Pierre Fulke, Mathias Grönberg, Paul McGinley, Gary Orr, Phillip Price
4. Top 3 on the 1999–2000 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit Lucas Parsons, Peter Senior
5. Top 3 on the 1999–2000 Southern Africa Tour Order of Merit Darren Fichardt, Nic Henning, Tjaart van der Walt
6. Top 3 on the 2000 Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit through the Philip Morris Championship Nobuhito Sato, Hidemichi Tanaka Toru Taniguchi did not play.
5. Winner of the 1999 Asian PGA Tour Order of Merit Kyi Hla Han
Round summaries First round PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Nick Price63−92 Pádraig Harrington66−6T3 Andrew Coltart67−5 Scott HochT5 Franklin Langham68−4 Chris Perry Mike WeirT8 Robert Allenby69−3 Carlos Franco Sergio García Retief Goosen Nic Henning
Second round PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Nick Price63-72=135−92 Hidemichi Tanaka71-66=137−73 Pádraig Harrington66-72=138−6T4 Mark Calcavecchia72-67=139−5 Duffy Waldorf70-69=139T6 Bob May71-69=140−4 Chris Perry68-72=140 Tiger Woods71-69=140T9 José Cóceres70-71=141−3 Vijay Singh71-70=141
Third round PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Hidemichi Tanaka71-66-70=207−9T2 Mark Calcavecchia72-67-69=208−8 Mike Weir68-75-65=208T4 Nick Price63-72-74=209−7 Tiger Woods71-69-69=209T6 Pádraig Harrington66-72-73=211−5 Duffy Waldorf70-69-72=211T8 Michael Campbell72-71-69=212 −4 Bob May71-69-72=212 Vijay Singh71-70-71=212 Lee Westwood72-72-68=212
Final round PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)1 Mike Weir 68-75-65-69=277 −11 1,000,0002 Lee Westwood 72-72-68-67=279 −9 500,000T3 Vijay Singh 71-70-71-68=280 −8 287,000 Duffy Waldorf 70-69-72-69=280T5 Sergio García 69-74-74-64=281 −7 157,500 Pádraig Harrington 66-72-73-70=281 Nick Price 63-72-74-72=281 Tiger Woods 71-69-69-72=2819 Michael Campbell 72-71-69-70=282 −6 115,00010 Mark Calcavecchia 72-67-69-75=283 −5 105,000
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