Most Wins in WGC Tournaments (And All of Tiger's WGC Wins)
The golfer who holds the record for most wins in WGC tournaments is, no surprise, Tiger Woods. But you might be at least a little surprised at just how far out ahead of all other golfers he is.
The World Golf Championships (WGC) were a series of tournaments, most commonly three or four per year, established in 1999 and intended to bring the best golfers from all of the world's top tours together. The U.S. PGA Tour was the driving force behind the creation of the WGC tournaments, which came to be viewed as among the most-important and prestigious tournaments on the PGA Tour schedule outside of the four major championships.
At least three World Golf Championships tournaments were played every year from 1999 through 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic caused some cancellations after that, and just one WGC event was played in both 2022 and 2023. The WGC series was discontinued after that.
Golfers With Most World Golf Championships Wins
Tiger Woods tops the WGC wins list, and no other golfer came anywhere near to Woods' total. Woods' 18 wins is three times the number of the golfer in second place, and six times the number of the golfers tied for third place.- Tiger Woods — 18 wins
- Dustin Johnson — 6 wins
- Rory McIlroy — 3 wins
- Phil Mickelson — 3 wins
- Geoff Ogilvy — 3 wins
List of Tiger Woods' WGC Wins
Woods won 23-percent of all the individiual World Golf Championships tournaments played. (His 18 wins does not include partnering with David Duval as Team USA to win the team-format 2000 World Cup.) Given that Woods' total so completely dwarfs the number of wins by anyone else, let's list all of Woods' WGC victories:- 1999 WGC NEC Invitational: Won by one stroke over runner-up Phil Mickelson
- 1999 WGC American Express Championship: Defeated Miguel Angel Jimenez in playoff
- 2000 WGC NEC Invitational: Won by 11 over Justin Leonard and Phillip Price
- 2001 WGC NEC Invitational: Defeated Jim Furyk in playoff
- 2002 WGC American Express Championship: Won by one over Retief Goosen
- 2003 WGC Accenture Match Play Championship: Defeated David Toms, 2 and 1, in championship match
- 2003 WGC American Express Championship: Won by two over Stuart Appleby, Vijay Singh and Tim Herron
- 2004 WGC Accenture Match Play Championship: Defeated Davis Love III, 3 and 2, in championship match
- 2005 WGC NEC Invitational: Won by one over Chris DiMarco
- 2005 WGC American Express Championship: Defeated John Daly in playoff
- 2006 WGC Bridgestone Invitational: Defeated Stewart Cink in playoff
- 2006 WGC American Express Championship: Won by eight over Adam Scott and Ian Poulter
- 2007 WGC CA Championship: Won by two over Brett Wetterich
- 2007 WGC Bridgestone Invitational: Won by eight over Justin Rose and Rory Sabbatini
- 2008 WGC Accenture Match Play: Defeated Stewart Cink, 8 and 7, in championship match
- 2009 WGC Bridgestone Invitational: Won by four over Robert Allenby and Padraig Harrington
- 2013 WGC Cadillac Championship: Won by two over Steve Stricker
- 2013 WGC Bridgestone Invitational: Won by seven over Keegan Bradley and Henrik Stenson
