In Spanish golf Masculine has a few left, in what are considered great contests, to conquer: the PGA Championship and from this Friday, March 24, 2023, a WGC (World Golf Championships) that, if they do not reinvent themselves, the Dell Match Play of Austin, Texas will be the last to play the so-called world series created 24 years ago by the PGA Tour and the European Tour to ease the push of the world circuit that Australian Greg Norman wanted to create at the time (he was aborted in these millionaire tournaments).
We say this because of the elimination of Jon Rahm in the group stage of the World Match Play Spanish golf broke a (negative!) record of 0 wins in 88 World Series tournaments disputed since 1999read WGC Match Play (24 played in this one), WGC Championship (23), WGC Invitational (23), WGC Champions (11) and WGC World Cup (7).
The closest a Spanish golfer came to winning one of these, also, became a millionaire and elite tournaments four second places.
The first is Miguel Ángel Jiménez at the WGC American Express in Valderrama (Cádiz) in 1999; The man from Malaga lost in the playoffs against the then world number 1 and was almost undefeated Tiger Woods.
The second is to Seville World Cup 2004where the ‘Pisha’ and the Castellón Sergio Garcia They finished runners-up in this competition behind the British duo formed by the current European captain of the Ryder Cup 2023, Luke Donald, and Paul Casey.
Ten years passed (2014) until Sergio Garcia must surrender before an excess Rory McIlroy within WGC Bridgestone Invitational in Akron (Ohio).
The fourth ‘post shot’ is Jon Rahm at the WGC Dell Match Play at Austin Country Club in 2017lost in the final (this was his debut in this tournament after turning professional a few weeks ago) against world number 1 dustin johnson. Of course, the Basque made DJ sweat until the end.
The first WGC was held in Carlsbad (California), in February 1999. and then Match Play was sponsored by Andersen Consulting. It was then followed by Accenture, Cadillac and Dell, whose 2020 edition was not played due to Covid-19.
He WGC American Express Championship It also debuted in 1999 and played its first two years in Valderrama. Then came CA, Cadillax, Mexico and Workday as sponsors. It is no longer played in 2022.
He WGC Invitational It had NEC as its first sponsor, and then Bridgestone and FedEx, which also stopped playing in 2022.
He WGC champion, always under the umbrella of HSBC, is valid for 11 years for the world series and held in China (not, therefore, in 2020, 2021 and 2022 due to the pandemic). It happened that Sergio García won, but only as a scoring event on the European Tour, in 2008, as the WGC from 2009.
And finally, the prestigious World Cup (Canada Cup in the 50s and 60s and World Cup from the 70s) was the WGC from 2000 to 2006.
Source: La Verdad
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