As the 50th World Golf Championships event begins in Arizona, europeantour.com took a statistical look back at the first 49…
49 – The number of official individual WGC events that have been played. (This excludes the 2001 WGC – Cadillac Championship which was cancelled and the WGC – World Cup between 2007-2011)
1 – The first WGC event was won by Jeff Maggert when he defeated Andrew Magee in the 1999 WGC – Accenture Match Play Championship
1999 – The year of the first WGC event to be played: the WGC – Accenture Match Play Championship.
18 – The number of WGC events won by Tiger Woods
44 – The most number of appearances, a record held by Lee Westwood
2009 – The year that the HSBC Champions became part of the WGC series
26 – The number of different players to have won a WGC event
18 – The number of holes-in-one from the previous events
6 – The number of different countries to stage WGC completion. They are: Australia, China, England, Ireland, Spain and United States
7 – The number of players to record multiple WGC wins. They are: Darren Clarke, Ernie Els, Hunter Mahan, Phil Mickelson, Geoff Ogilvy, Ian Poulter and Tiger Woods
23 – The age of Tiger Woods when he became the youngest WGC winner, at the 1999 Bridgestone Invitational
20,046,115 – The figure in euro that Tiger Woods has won in WGC history
2000 – The year Darren Clarke became the first European player to win a WGC event, the Accenture Match Play Championship, beating Tiger Woods in the final
45 – The age of Vijay Singh when he became the oldest WGC winner at the 2008 Bridgestone Invitational
15 – The number of Accenture Match Play Championships and Bridgestone Invitationals that have been played
14 – The number of Cadillac Championships that of have taken place
259 – The lowest winning 72 hole total in a WGC event, when Tiger Woods won the 2000 Bridgestone Invitational
4– The number of play-offs which have taken place in stoke play WGC events. All were won by Tiger Woods
2– Number of albatrosses in WGC history. They were by Ernie Els (2000 Bridgestone Invitational) and Padraig Harrington (2010 HSBC Champions)
