WGC Invitational

WGC Invitational
Tournament information
Established1999
Organized byInternational Federation of PGA Tours
Tour(s)PGA Tour
European Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fundUS$10,500,000 (final year)
Month playedAugust
Final year2021
Tournament record score
Aggregate259 Tiger Woods (2000)
To par−21 as above
Final champion
Mexico Abraham Ancer

The WGC Invitational was a professional golf tournament that was held in the United States. Established in 1999 as a successor to the World Series of Golf, it was one of three or four annual World Golf Championships (WGC) until 2021, when the number of WGC events was reduced to two.

Under sponsorship agreements, the WGC Invitational was titled as the WGC-NEC Invitational (1999–2005) and the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (2006–2018). During this time, it was hosted at Firestone Country Club in Ohio, except for 2002 when it was hosted at Sahalee Country Club in Washington. With a change of sponsor in 2019, the tournament became titled as the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational and was relocated to at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee.

The WGC Invitational was sanctioned and organized by the International Federation of PGA Tours and the prize money was official money on both the PGA Tour and the European Tour. Tiger Woods had the record number of wins with eight.[1][2] The winner received a Wedgwood trophy called The Gary Player Cup.[3]

  1. ^ "Tournament History". European Tour. Retrieved July 14, 2019.
  2. ^ "PGA Tour Media Guide". PGA Tour. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
  3. ^ Heath, Elliott (August 7, 2017). "The Best Trophies In Golf". Golf Monthly. Retrieved February 22, 2019.