DID YOU KNOW – WGC – MEXICO CHAMPIONSHIP
• Patrick Reed made World Golf Championship history in 2014 when he became the youngest player to win a WGC event, aged 23 years and 216 days. This broke the previous record of Tiger Woods, who was 23 years and 242 days at the 1999 WGC – Bridgestone Invitational.
• Should Adam Scott make a successful defence of the title he won 12 months ago, he would be only the second player in WGC history to achieve this feat, following Tiger Woods.
• Should Adam Scott win again he would join Geoff Ogilvy on three wins and move into joint second place in the list of most prolific WGC winners, behind Tiger Woods, who has 18.
• Adam Scott is bidding to become the first Australian to make a successful defence of a European Tour title since Greg Norman (1981-82 Dunlop Masters).
• Should Hideki Matsuyama win the WGC – Mexico Championship, he would join Tiger Woods as the only other player to win consecutive WGC titles, following his win in the 2016 WGC – HSBC Champions.
• The 2007 WGC – Mexico Championship saw Tiger Woods create a record by becoming the first player to win two different European Tour events for three consecutive years. The first tournament he won three years in succession was the WGC – Bridgestone Invitational between 1999-01.
• European Tour history will be made this week as the WGC – Mexico Championship will be the first official European Tour event to be played in Mexico. (In 2002 Vista Vallarta Golf Club hosted the World Cup of Golf, which was a European Tour Approved Special Event).
• Mexico will be the 43rd different country that the European Tour has played an official event in.
• Chapultepec Golf Club has previously staged the Mexican Open 18 times, most recently in 2014, won by Oscar David Álvarez. Major Champions, Roberto de Vicenzo (1951, 53, 55), Bob Rosburg (1957) and Ben Crenshaw (1981) all won the Mexican Open at this venue.
• The 2017 season will be the 19th year since the first WGC event was played. It was the WGC – Dell Technologies Match Play, played at the La Costa Resort and Spa in 1999 and won by Jeff Maggert.
• The 2016 champion, Adam Scott will not only try to defend his title but he will also be celebrating his 50th WGC appearance. He becomes the third player to reach this milestone, following Lee Westwood (55) and Sergio Garcia (50).
• Of the 37 European Tour Members competing there will be six playing in the WGC – Mexico Championship for the first time. They are: Sam Brazel, Tyrrell Hatton, Thomas Pieters, Brandon Stone, Jeunghun Wang and Fabrizio Zanotti. Of those six, two will be making their debuts in a WGC event. They are: Brazel and Stone.
