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Sunday 14 February 1999PGA TourYear in Review
Woods wins Buick Invitational
Torrey Pines Golf Course, La Jolla, San Diego, California · Thursday 11 to Sunday 14 February 1999 · Tiger Woods’s win no. 8 on the PGA Tour · purse $2,700,000 USD · Buick
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
10 h 48 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 43° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R115°/5°C · wind 11 km/h NNE, gusts 23 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R218°/5°C · wind 14 km/h N, gusts 23 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R316°/6°C · wind 11 km/h W, gusts 20 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R414°/7°C · wind 16 km/h W, gusts 29 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.
The ones it got away from
- Billy Ray Brown USA · 268Tied Woods with a birdie at the 16th, but hit his 3-iron second fat at the par-5 18th and parred it while Woods holed a 15-foot eagle putt. Golf Today: Woods eagles 18 to win by 2 over Brown (Wayback Machine copy of dead page; unbylined wire-style report)
147 started, 73 made it
Same week
PGA Tour event
Buick Invitational
Torrey Pines Golf Course (South and North Courses), Torrey Pines Golf Course, La Jolla, San Diego, California
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Tiger Woods
Runner-up not yet researched.
From the papers
Golf Today (unbylined report)
14 February 1999
I haven't won on the PGA Tour since May of last year, But to finally win again, that feels a lot better than any world ranking.
Golf Today (unbylined report)
14 February 1999
It means a lot to me to do this in front of, in a sense, a hometown crowd,
Golf Today (unbylined report)
14 February 1999
It was Tiger's tournament to lose, All I could do was go free-wheel and he's the guy who had pressure on him.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiger Woods | 68 · 71 · 62 · 65 | 266 | −22 |
| 2 | Billy Ray Brown | 69 · 65 · 68 · 66 | 268 | −20 |
| 3 | Bill Glasson | 68 · 67 · 68 · 67 | 270 | −18 |
| T4 | Chris Perry | 66 · 69 · 72 · 66 | 273 | −15 |
| T4 | Kevin Sutherland | 68 · 68 · 67 · 70 | 273 | −15 |
| T4 | Omar Uresti | 71 · 66 · 69 · 67 | 273 | −15 |
| T7 | Loren Roberts | 70 · 70 · 68 · 67 | 275 | −13 |
| T7 | Scott Simpson | 71 · 68 · 66 · 70 | 275 | −13 |
| T7 | Dennis Paulson | 67 · 64 · 74 · 70 | 275 | −13 |
| T7 | Chris Riley | 72 · 65 · 68 · 70 | 275 | −13 |
The golfer
born 1975-12-30, Cypress, California; USA; turned pro 1996; age 23 that week; tour wins to date: 8; majors to date: 1; world No. 1 that week (OWGR rankBefore as stated by the OWGR player profile events table (rankFrom 1 on the OWGR event page)).
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet