2002 WGC-American Express Championship

Template:Use Hiberno-English Template:Short description The 2002 WGC-American Express Championship was a golf tournament that was contested from 19 to 22 September at Mount Juliet Golf Course in Thomastown, County Kilkenny, Ireland. It was the third WGC-American Express Championship tournament, following the cancellation of the 2001 edition in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, and the third of four World Golf Championships events in 2002.

World number 1 Tiger Woods won the tournament, to capture his second WGC-American Express Championship and his fifth World Golf Championship. He set the tournament record for score to-par at 25 under. Woods also went the first 71 holes of the tournament without making a bogey, only bogeying the 18th hole in the final round.

Field

1. Top 50 from the Official World Golf Ranking as of 9 September

Robert Allenby (2), Stuart Appleby, Paul Azinger, Rich Beem (2), Thomas Bjørn (3), Ángel Cabrera (3), Mark Calcavecchia, Michael Campbell (3), Darren Clarke, José Cóceres, John Cook, Chris DiMarco (2), David Duval, Ernie Els (2,3), Bob Estes (2), Niclas Fasth (3), Brad Faxon (2), Fred Funk (2), Jim Furyk (2), Sergio García (2,3), Retief Goosen (2,3,5), Pádraig Harrington (3), Scott Hoch, Jerry Kelly (2), Bernhard Langer, Paul Lawrie (3), Tom Lehman, Justin Leonard (2), Peter Lonard, Davis Love III (2), Steve Lowery (2), Shigeki Maruyama (2), Len Mattiace (2), Scott McCarron (2), Rocco Mediate (2), Phil Mickelson (2), Colin Montgomerie (3), Craig Parry (4), Kenny Perry (2), Nick Price (2), Chris Riley (2), Eduardo Romero (3), Justin Rose (3,5), Adam Scott (3), Vijay Singh (2), David Toms (2), Scott Verplank, Mike Weir, Tiger Woods (2)

2. Top 30 on the 2002 PGA Tour money list as of 9 September

Craig Perks, John Rollins, Jeff Sluman, Kevin Sutherland

3. Top 20 on the 2002 European Tour Order of Merit as of 9 September

Gary Evans, Anders Hansen, Søren Hansen, Trevor Immelman, Stephen Leaney, Carl Pettersson

4. Top 3 on the 2002 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit as of 9 September

Scott Laycock, Peter O'Malley

5. Top 3 on the 2001–02 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit

Tim Clark

6. Top 3 on the 2002 Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit as of 9 September

Kenichi Kuboya

• Nobuhito Sato and Toru Taniguchi did not play.

7. Winner of the 2001 Asian PGA Tour Order of Merit

Thongchai Jaidee

Round summaries

First round

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Template:Flagicon Tiger Woods	65	−7
T2	Template:Flagicon Steve Lowery	66	−6
	Template:Flagicon David Toms
T4	Template:Flagicon Chris DiMarco	67	−5
	Template:Flagicon Gary Evans
	Template:Flagicon Retief Goosen
	Template:Flagicon Jerry Kelly
	Template:Flagicon Vijay Singh
	Template:Flagicon Mike Weir
T10	Template:Flagicon José Cóceres	68	−4
	Template:Flagicon Ernie Els
	Template:Flagicon Bob Estes
	Template:Flagicon Niclas Fasth
	Template:Flagicon Justin Leonard
	Template:Flagicon José María Olazábal
	Template:Flagicon Craig Parry
	Template:Flagicon Kenny Perry
	Template:Flagicon Nick Price
	Template:Flagicon Scott Verplank

Second round

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Template:Flagicon Tiger Woods	65-65=130	−14
2	Template:Flagicon Jerry Kelly	67-65=132	−12
T3	Template:Flagicon Steve Lowery	66-67=133	−11
	Template:Flagicon David Toms	66-67=133
5	Template:Flagicon Retief Goosen	67-67=134	−10
T6	Template:Flagicon Stuart Appleby	69-66=135	−9
	Template:Flagicon Ernie Els	68-67=135
	Template:Flagicon Gary Evans	67-68=135
T9	Template:Flagicon Chris DiMarco	67-69=136	−8
	Template:Flagicon Bob Estes	68-68=136
	Template:Flagicon Stephen Leaney	69-67=136
	Template:Flagicon Justin Leonard	68-68=136
	Template:Flagicon Davis Love III	69-67=136
	Template:Flagicon Rocco Mediate	69-67=136
	Template:Flagicon Vijay Singh	67-69=136

Third round

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Template:Flagicon Tiger Woods	65-65-67=197	−19
T2	Template:Flagicon Retief Goosen	67-67-68=202	−14
	Template:Flagicon Jerry Kelly	67-65-70=202
	Template:Flagicon Steve Lowery	66-67-69=202
	Template:Flagicon Scott McCarron	71-67-64=202
	Template:Flagicon Vijay Singh	67-69-66=202
	Template:Flagicon David Toms	66-67-69=202
8	Template:Flagicon Rocco Mediate	69-67-67=203	−13
9	Template:Flagicon Davis Love III	69-67-68=204	−12
T10	Template:Flagicon Stuart Appleby	69-66-70=205	−11
	Template:Flagicon Bob Estes	68-68-69=205
	Template:Flagicon Justin Leonard	68-68-69=205
	Template:Flagicon Mike Weir	67-70-68=205

Final round

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Template:Flagicon Tiger Woods	65-65-67-66=263	−25	1,000,000
2	Template:Flagicon Retief Goosen	67-67-68-62=264	−24	540,000
3	Template:Flagicon Vijay Singh	67-69-66-65=267	−21	367,500
T4	Template:Flagicon Jerry Kelly	67-65-70-66=268	−20	235,000
	Template:Flagicon David Toms	66-67-69-66=268
6	Template:Flagicon Scott McCarron	71-67-64-67=269	−19	180,000
7	Template:Flagicon Sergio García	69-69-70-62=270	−18	155,000
8	Template:Flagicon Davis Love III	69-67-68-67=271	−17	130,000
T9	Template:Flagicon Michael Campbell	71-66-71-64=272	−16	111,000
	Template:Flagicon Bob Estes	68-68-69-67=272

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