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Championships - CA Championship
World Golf Championships-CA
Championship
Start Date: March
Course: TPC Blue Monster at Doral
Location: Miami, FL
Def. Champ: Phil Mickelson
Purse: $8,500,000
Winners Share: $1,350,000
This week many of the top golfers in the world will be headed to
Doral, Florida, for the annual WGC-CA Championship. The top PGA
players in the world will take on Doral's infamous Blue Monster
Course this March, gunning for one of the top titles in golf. |
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This is a great tune up for the
Masters, as the competition is about as good as it gets. One of
three World Golf Championship events, the CA Championship is a
highlight of the annual PGA Tour calendar.
The CA Championship is the second
of the three World Golf Championship events, previously known as
the American Express Championship, but now known as the CA
Championship. The World Golf Championships events feature
players from around the world competing against one another in
varied formats (match play, stroke and team).
The WGC CA Championship debuted as part of the World Golf
Championships series in 1999. The tournament originally rotated
with many different venues since it's inception, including
Spain, Republic of Ireland and England. Sence 2007 it has been
permanently housed at the Doral Country Club in Doral, Fla., and
has replaced that site's previous event, the Doral Open, on the
PGA Tour schedule.
The CA Championship is a limited-field event with entry
determined mostly by money list ranking, but also by FedEx Cup
points and World Ranking points. There is no 36 hole cut in this
event because there are only roughly 70 players in the event, as
opposed to 144 in normal PGA events.
WGC 2010 CA Championship winner Ernie Els has risen 12 spots to 8th place in the Official World Golf Ranking after his win at Doral Golf Resort. The PGA golf winner ended a two years without a win in superb style at the WGC-CA Championship in Miami with a final round of 66 for an 18-under-par total and four stroke win over fellow South African Charl
Schwartzel
In 2009, Mickelson won for the
second time in three starts and moved to No. 2 in the world
ranking, as close to Tiger Woods as he has ever been. Mickelson
finished at 19-under 269 and earned $1.4 million, the biggest
check of his career.
In 2008, Geoff Ogilvy defeated
Tiger and disrupted a previous winning streak of three in a row
for Woods.
World Golf
Championships Tournaments:
Accenture Match Play Championship: Originally played at La Costa
Resort in Carlsbad, Calif., this tournament has moved to The Gallery
Golf Club at Dove Mountain in Tucson, Ariz. A field of 64 plays at
match play until the winner is crowned in a 36-hole championship
match.
More about the WGC Match Play Championship
CA Championship: Originally known as the American Express
Championship and played at a different course each year, in 2007 the
tournament was rebranded as the CA Championship and is played yearly
at Doral Golf Resort in Florida.
More about the WGC CA Championship
Bridgestone Invitational: Originally known as the NEC Invitational,
the Bridgestone Invitational is played at Firestone Country Club in
Ohio.
More about the WGC Bridgestone Invitational
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