Andersen Consulting World Championship of Golf

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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

WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
which started in 1999.

The top eight players available from four different regions, the United States,

Sony Rankings
. 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

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

The

Official World Golf Rankings
.

Winners

Year Player Country Score Runner-up Third place Fourth place
1995 Barry Lane  England 2 up South Africa David Frost United States Mark McCumber Japan Masahiro Kuramoto
1997 Greg Norman  Australia 1 up United States Scott Hoch Japan Hisayuki Sasaki Scotland Sam Torrance
1998 Colin Montgomerie[2]  Scotland 2 up United States Davis Love III South Africa Ernie Els Japan Hajime Meshiai

References