Mercedes-Benz Championship (PGA Tour)

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Mercedes-Benz Championship
Tournament information
Location Kapalua, Hawaii
Established 1953
Course(s) Plantation Course
Par 73
Yardage 7,411
Tour(s) PGA Tour
Format Stroke play
Purse $5,500,000
Month Played January
Tournament record score
Aggregate 261 Ernie Els (2003)
To-par -31* Ernie Els (2003)
* PGA Tour record
Current champion
Vijay Singh

For the identically named event on the European Tour see Mercedes-Benz Championship (European Tour).

The Mercedes-Benz Championship is the opening event of golf's PGA Tour season. The field is restricted to golfers who won an event on the Tour in the previous season. It is played the first weekend in January, and has been at Kapalua Resort's Plantation Course in Kapalua, Hawaii, since 1999. The event was played in Las Vegas, Nevada from the event's inception in 1953 until 1968, first at The Desert Inn Golf & Country Club until 1966, and then at Stardust Country Club. After that, it began a 30-year relationship with La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California, which lasted until the event was moved to its current location in Hawaii.

Note: Green highlight indicates scoring record.

Mercedes-Benz Championship

Year Player Country Score 1st Prize
2007 Vijay Singh Flag of Fiji Fiji 278 (-14) $1,100,000

Mercedes Championships

Year Player Country Score 1st Prize
2006 Stuart Appleby Flag of Australia Australia 284 (-8) $1,080,000
2005 Stuart Appleby Flag of Australia Australia 271 (-21) $1,060,000
2004 Stuart Appleby Flag of Australia Australia 270 (-22) $1,060,000
2003 Ernie Els Flag of South Africa South Africa 261 (-31) $1,000,000
2002 Sergio García Flag of Spain Spain 274 (-18) $720,000
2001 Jim Furyk Flag of the United States United States 274 (-18) $630,000
2000 Tiger Woods Flag of the United States United States 276 (-16) $522,000
1999 David Duval Flag of the United States United States 266 (-26) $468,000
1998 Phil Mickelson Flag of the United States United States 271 (-17) $306,000
1997 Tiger Woods Flag of the United States United States 202 (-14) $216,000
1996 Mark O'Meara Flag of the United States United States 271 (-17) $180,000
1995 Steve Elkington Flag of Australia Australia 278 (-10) $180,000
1994 Phil Mickelson Flag of the United States United States 276 (-12) $180,000

Infiniti Tournament of Champions

Year Player Country Score 1st Prize
1993 Davis Love III Flag of the United States United States 272 (-16) $144,000
1992 Steve Elkington Flag of Australia Australia 279 (-9) $144,000
1991 Tom Kite Flag of the United States United States 272 (-16) $144,000

MONY Tournament of Champions

Year Player Country Score 1st Prize
1990 Paul Azinger Flag of the United States United States 272 (-16) $135,000
1989 Steve Jones Flag of the United States United States 279 (-9) $135,000
1988 Steve Pate Flag of the United States United States 202 (-14) $90,000
1987 Mac O'Grady Flag of the United States United States 278 (-10) $90,000
1986 Calvin Peete Flag of the United States United States 267 (-21) $90,000
1985 Tom Kite Flag of the United States United States 275 (-13) $72,000
1984 Tom Watson Flag of the United States United States 274 (-14) $72,000
1983 Lanny Wadkins Flag of the United States United States 280 (-8) $72,000
1982 Lanny Wadkins Flag of the United States United States 280 (-8) $63,000
1981 Lee Trevino Flag of the United States United States 273 (-15) $54,000
1980 Tom Watson Flag of the United States United States 276 (-12) $54,000
1979 Tom Watson Flag of the United States United States 275 (-13) $54,000
1978 Gary Player Flag of South Africa South Africa 281 (-7) $45,000
1977 Jack Nicklaus Flag of the United States United States 281 (-7) $45,000
1976 Don January Flag of the United States United States 277 (-11) $45,000
1975 Al Geiberger Flag of the United States United States 277 (-11) $40,000

Tournament of Champions

Year Player Country Score 1st Prize
1974 Johnny Miller Flag of the United States United States 280 (-8) $40,000
1973 Jack Nicklaus Flag of the United States United States 276 (-12) $40,000
1972 Bobby Mitchell Flag of the United States United States 280 (-8) $33,000
1971 Jack Nicklaus Flag of the United States United States 279 (-9) $33,000
1970 Frank Beard Flag of the United States United States 273 (-15) $30,000
Year Player Country Score
1969 Gary Player Flag of South Africa South Africa 284
1968 Don January Flag of the United States United States 276
1967 Frank Beard Flag of the United States United States 278
1966 Arnold Palmer Flag of the United States United States 283
1965 Arnold Palmer Flag of the United States United States 277
1964 Jack Nicklaus Flag of the United States United States 279
1963 Jack Nicklaus Flag of the United States United States 273
1962 Arnold Palmer Flag of the United States United States 276
1961 Sam Snead Flag of the United States United States 273
1960 Jerry Barber Flag of the United States United States 268
1959 Mike Souchak Flag of the United States United States 281
1958 Stan Leonard Flag of the United States United States 275
1957 Gene Littler Flag of the United States United States 285
1956 Gene Littler Flag of the United States United States 281
1955 Gene Littler Flag of the United States United States 280
1954 Art Wall, Jr. Flag of the United States United States 278
1953 Al Besselink Flag of the United States United States 280

Thirteen men have won the Mercedes-Benz Championship more than once through 2007.


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