The 1999 WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship was a
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...
tournament that was played from February 24–28, 1999 at
La Costa Resort and Spa
The Omni La Costa Resort & Spa is a luxury destination resort hotel opened in 1965, located in Carlsbad, California, and is owned by Omni Hotels & Resorts, based out of Dallas, Texas. The resort is located in the San Diego area hills and is known ...
in
Carlsbad, California. It was the first
WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship and the first of three
World Golf Championships
The World Golf Championships (WGC) are a group of annual professional golf tournaments 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 ...
events held in 1999.
Jeff Maggert
Jeffrey Allan Maggert (born February 20, 1964) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and PGA Tour Champions.
Early life
Maggert was born in Columbia, Missouri. He was raised on a golf course in The Woodlands, Texas where ...
won his first World Golf Championships event at the match-play, by defeating
Andrew Magee
Andrew Donald Magee (born May 22, 1962) is an American professional golfer who played for more than 20 years on the PGA Tour.
Magee was born in Paris, France, where his father, a Texas oil man, was working at the time. He grew up in Dallas, Texa ...
on the 38th hole in the 36 hole final that went extra holes.
Brackets
The Championship was a single elimination
match play
Match play is a scoring system for golf in which a player, or team, earns a point for each hole in which they have bested their opponents; as opposed to stroke play, in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 h ...
event. The field consisted of the top 64 players available from the
Official World Golf Ranking as of the February 14 ranking, seeded according to those rankings.
Jumbo Osaki (ranked #13) chose not to play and was replaced by
Nick Faldo (#65).
Golf: World Match Play; Woods vs. Faldo a Key Attraction
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Bobby Jones bracket
Ben Hogan bracket
Gary Player bracket
Sam Snead bracket
Final Four
Prize money breakdown
References
External links
Bracket PDF
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WGC Match Play
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WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship
WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship
WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship