The Andersen Consulting World Championship of Golf was a 32-man

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tournament played from 1995 to 1998. It was the predecessor tournament to the

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which started in 1999. The top eight players available from four different regions, the United States,

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, Japan, and the "Rest of the World", were selected from the

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. Each region played three rounds of match play to determine the regional winner to send to the finals. The regional tournaments were played at various times (February to August) throughout the year at different courses in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. The semi-finals and finals were played in late December 1995 and early January in 1997 and 1998 at the Grayhawk Golf Club in

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, United States.Event History – Andersen Consulting World Championship of Golf (1995, 1997 & 1998)
/ref> All matches were played over 18 holes except the final which was played over 36 holes. The purse each year was

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3,650,000 with $1,000,000 going to the winner. The

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(WGC) were formed in 1999 and

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remained as the sponsor of the match play championship. The first WGC event, the

1999 WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship The 1999 WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship was a golf tournament that was played from February 24–28, 1999 at La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California. It was the first WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship and ...

took place in February 1999. The format changed to a 64-man tournament played over one week with the field is drawn from the

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Winners

References

{{reflist Unofficial money golf tournaments Golf in Arizona Sports competitions in Scottsdale, Arizona 1995 establishments in Arizona 1998 disestablishments in Arizona