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The World Golf Championships (WGC) were a group of annual professional golf tournaments played from 1999 through 2023 created by the International Federation of PGA Tours as a means of gathering the best players in the world together more frequently than the pre-existing four major championships.
The World Champions Cup is an annual golf tournament for three seven-player teams, consisting of PGA Tour Champions players. It is held at The Concession Golf Club in the Bradenton, Florida . It was first played in 2023 [ 1 ]
Players are listed here in order of their first win. For much of the modern era the four major championships have been played chronologically in the order listed, but this has not always been the case, and starting in 2019 the PGA Championship was rescheduled as the second major of the year. In 2020, a year dramatica
The 2023 Players Championship was the 49th playing of the Players Championship, having been played at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida from March 9–12.. The winner was Scottie Scheffler, who shot a 69 in the final round to finish at 271 (−17) to win his first Players Championship, five strokes ahead of runner-up Tyrrell Hatton.
The field consists of 144 players meeting various criteria; they include tournament winners on the PGA Tour since the previous Players Championship, recent winners of major championships, The Players and World Golf Championships, and leading players in the FedEx Cup standings from the current and preceding seasons.
The tournament consisted of a field of 72 players filled based upon the following criteria: [17] Top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking (one week and two weeks prior to event) Top players from member tours' money lists or orders of merit (from last complete season) Top 30 PGA Tour FedEx Cup list (also top 10 from one week prior to ...
The World Match Play Championship in England continued, but lost prestige after the introduction of the WGC event, and eventually became defunct in 2014. [9] The format of the new WGC competition was a straight knock out tournament involving the top 64 players in the Official World Golf Ranking, with each match played over 18 holes, except the ...
The World Cup of Golf is a men's golf tournament contested by teams of two representing their country. Only one team is allowed from each country. Only one team is allowed from each country. The players are selected on the basis of the Official World Golf Ranking , although not all of the first choice players choose to compete.