Tournament information | |
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Established | 1999 |
Organized by | International Federation of PGA Tours |
Tour(s) | PGA Tour European Tour |
Format | Stroke play |
Prize fund | US$10,500,000 (final year) |
Month played | August |
Final year | 2021 |
Tournament record score | |
Aggregate | 259 Tiger Woods (2000) |
To par | −21 as above |
Final champion | |
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]