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Sunday 24 October 1999PGA TourYear in Review
Woods wins National Car Rental Golf Classic Disney
Walt Disney World Resort, Lake Buena Vista, Florida · Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 October 1999 · Tiger Woods’s win no. 13 on the PGA Tour · purse $2.5 million USD · National Car Rental
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
11 h 04 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 49° up at noon, and that night a full moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R124°/18°C · wind 19 km/h NNE, gusts 34 · 18.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R223°/15°C · wind 16 km/h NNW, gusts 30 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R325°/13°C · wind 16 km/h WNW, gusts 31 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R420°/10°C · wind 18 km/h N, gusts 32 · 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
- Ernie Els RSA · 272drew level at 18 under with three back-nine birdies, then hit his lay-up into the water at the par-5 14th for a bogey and bogeyed the 17th after his long birdie putt rolled off the green; closed 71, one back Golf Today: Els & Tway hand title to Woods (final-round report, Wayback Machine copy; site defunct)
142 started, 86 made it
Same week
PGA Tour event
National Car Rental Golf Classic Disney
Walt Disney World Resort (Magnolia and Palm Courses; Magnolia host course), Walt Disney World Resort, Lake Buena Vista, Florida
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Tiger Woods
Runner-up not yet researched.
From the papers
Golf Today (unbylined report)
24 October 1999
I'm not going to put any limits on where I think I can go
Golf Today (unbylined report)
24 October 1999
Nobody can touch this guy at the moment. He has gone to another level where I don't think the rest of us can really find.
Golf Today (unbylined report)
24 October 1999
I was done. I was done when I was lining up my putt.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiger Woods | 66 · 66 · 66 · 73 | 271 | −17 |
| 2 | Ernie Els | 68 · 65 · 68 · 71 | 272 | −16 |
| T3 | Bob Tway | 67 · 65 · 66 · 76 | 274 | −14 |
| T3 | Franklin Langham | 67 · 67 · 68 · 72 | 274 | −14 |
| T5 | Vijay Singh | −13 | ||
| T5 | John Huston | −13 | ||
| T7 | Russ Cochran | 68 · 69 · 68 · 72 | 277 | −11 |
| T7 | Jeff Sluman | 70 · 65 · 70 · 72 | 277 | −11 |
| T7 | Glen Day | 71 · 68 · 72 · 66 | 277 | −11 |
| T7 | Dudley Hart | 70 · 67 · 67 · 73 | 277 | −11 |
The golfer
born 1975-12-30, Cypress, California; USA; turned pro 1996; age 23 that week; tour wins to date: 13; majors to date: 2; world No. 1 that week (OWGR rankBefore as stated by the OWGR player profile events table (1999, week 43)).
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet