WGC-American Express Championship

The WGC-American Express Championship is one of the annual World Golf Championships for male professional golfers. It is sanctioned and organized by the International Federation of PGA Tours and the prize money is official money on both the PGA TOUR and the PGA European Tour.

Related Topics:
World Golf Championships - International Federation of PGA Tours - PGA TOUR - PGA European Tour

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The event is in the strokeplay format. Invitations are sent to top 50 players from the Official World Golf Rankings and to some leading players from the official money lists or orders of merit of the six International Federation of PGA Tours who do not meet the ranking criteria, in order to globalise the field. In 2004 the field was sixty-eight, which is less than half that for a standard professional golf event.

Related Topics:
Strokeplay - Official World Golf Rankings - International Federation of PGA Tours - 2004

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Like the Ryder Cup in the same year, the 2001 event, scheduled for Bellerive Country Club, St Louis, Missouri, in the United States, was cancelled due to 9/11.

Related Topics:
Ryder Cup - 2001 - St Louis, Missouri - United States - 9/11

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