The First 49 - WGC events In Numbers

As the 50th World Golf Championships event begins in Arizona, europeantour.com took a statistical look back at the first 49…

<b>49 – </b>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)

<b>1 – </b>The first WGC event was won by Jeff Maggert when he defeated Andrew Magee in the 1999 WGC – Accenture Match Play Championship

<b>1999 – </b>The year of the first WGC event to be played: the WGC – Accenture Match Play Championship.

<b>18 – </b>The number of WGC events won by Tiger Woods

<b>44 – </b>The most number of appearances, a record held by Lee Westwood

<b>2009 </b>– The year that the HSBC Champions became part of the WGC series

<b>26 – </b>The number of different players to have won a WGC event

<b>18 – </b>The number  of holes-in-one from the previous events

<b>6 – </b>The number of different countries to stage WGC completion. They are: Australia, China, England, Ireland, Spain and United States

<b>7 – </b>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

<b>23 – </b>The age of Tiger Woods when he became the youngest WGC winner, at the 1999 Bridgestone Invitational

<b>20,046,115 – </b>The figure in euro that Tiger Woods has won in WGC history

<b>2000 – </b>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

<b>45 – </b>The age of Vijay Singh when he became the oldest WGC winner at the 2008 Bridgestone Invitational

<b>15 – </b>The number of Accenture Match Play Championships and Bridgestone Invitationals that have been played

<b>14 – </b>The number of Cadillac Championships that of have taken place

<b>259 – </b>The lowest winning 72 hole total in a WGC event, when Tiger Woods won the 2000 Bridgestone Invitational

<b>4</b>– The number of play-offs which have taken place in stoke play WGC events. All were won by Tiger Woods

<b>2</b>– Number of albatrosses in WGC history. They were by Ernie Els (2000 Bridgestone Invitational) and Padraig Harrington (2010 HSBC Champions)