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The WGC Championship, WGC Match Play and WGC Invitational events all began in 1999, although the WGC Invitational is the direct successor of the World Series of Golf, which began in 1976 and the WGC Match Play is a direct successor to the Andersen Consulting World Championship of Golf which began in 1995. The WGC Championship originally ...
In 1999, ESPN began airing the World Golf Championships. From 1996 through 2006, ESPN aired The Players Championship, a flagship event of the PGA Tour. ESPN broadcast the 1994 Presidents Cup, 1996 Presidents Cup and 1998 Presidents Cup. When ABC became the primary rights holder for the PGA Tour in 1999, several new events were broadcast on ESPN ...
Under sponsorship agreements, the WGC Championship was titled as the WGC-American Express Championship (1999–2006), when it was hosted at various locations in Europe and the United States; the WGC-CA Championship (2007–2010), then the WGC-Cadillac Championship (2011–2016), when it was hosted at Doral Golf Resort, Florida; and the WGC ...
The event had a field of about 75 players, roughly half the number for a standard professional golf event. Invitations were issued to the following: Playing members of the last named Presidents Cup or Ryder Cup teams (whichever was played last). Players ranked among the top 50 on the Official World Golf Ranking (one week and two weeks prior to ...
"The Showdown" will feature a few of the best golfers: Rory McIlroy and World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler from the PGA Tour facing off against LIV Golf's top players, No. 10 ranked Bryson DeChambeau ...
The PGA Championship officially has Tiger Woods in a field released Tuesday that includes invitations to seven players from Saudi-funded LIV Golf, giving the major the entire top 100 in the world ...
Microsoft also produced its own series of golf games based on Links, under the title Microsoft Golf. The Links series was a flagship brand for Access, and was continued from 1990 to 2003 . The first game in the series, Links: The Challenge of Golf , won Computer Gaming World ' s 1991 Action Game of the Year award.
The PGA Championship is the only major that does not explicitly grant entry to the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking, although special exemptions are commonly given to players in the top 100 (not just top 50) of the ranking who are not already qualified. [27] As of 2023, the qualification criteria are as follows: [28]