The 1999 WGC-American Express Championship was a golf tournament that was contested from 4–7 November 1999 at Valderrama Golf Club in Sotogrande, San Roque, Spain. It was the first WGC-American Express Championship tournament, and the third and final event in the inaugural year of the World Golf Championships.

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1999 WGC-American Express Championship

Tournament information
Dates	4–7 November 1999
Location	Sotogrande, San Roque, Spain
Course(s)	Valderrama Golf Club
Tour(s)	PGA Tour European Tour
Statistics
Par	71
Length	6,830
Field	62 players
Cut	None
Prize fund	$5,000,000
Winner's share	$1,000,000
Champion
Tiger Woods
278 (−6), playoff
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World number 1, Tiger Woods won the tournament after defeating Miguel Ángel Jiménez in the first extra hole of a playoff. Woods held a four stroke lead going into the 17th hole but hit it into the water on the tough par 5 and ended up scoring a triple bogey that allowed Jiménez to get back in it.

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

Stuart Appleby (2), Stewart Cink, Darren Clarke (3), Glen Day, Steve Elkington, Ernie Els (2,3), Bob Estes (2), Carlos Franco (2), Fred Funk (2), Jim Furyk (2), Sergio García (3), Brent Geiberger (2), Retief Goosen (3), Pádraig Harrington (3), Dudley Hart, Tim Herron (2), Scott Hoch, John Huston (2), Miguel Ángel Jiménez (3), Bernhard Langer (3), Paul Lawrie (3), Tom Lehman (2), Justin Leonard (2), Davis Love III (2), Jeff Maggert (2), Phil Mickelson (2), Colin Montgomerie (3), José María Olazábal, Naomichi Ozaki (6), Craig Parry, Steve Pate (2), Chris Perry (2), Nick Price (2), Loren Roberts (2), Vijay Singh (2), Jeff Sluman (2), Hal Sutton (2), David Toms (2), Bob Tway, Brian Watts, Lee Westwood (3), Tiger Woods (2)

• Payne Stewart (2) died in a plane crash on 25 October.
• Fred Couples, David Duval (2), Lee Janzen, Mark O'Meara, Masashi Ozaki, Jesper Parnevik, and Steve Stricker did not play.

2. Top 30 on the 1999 PGA Tour money list through the Tour Championship

Notah Begay III, Dennis Paulson, Ted Tryba, Duffy Waldorf, Mike Weir

3. Top 20 on the 1999 European Tour Order of Merit through the Volvo Masters

Thomas Bjørn, Ángel Cabrera, Alex Čejka, Mark James, Robert Karlsson, Bob May, Jarrod Moseley (4), Jarmo Sandelin, Jean van de Velde

• John Bickerton did not play.

4. Top 3 on the 1998–99 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit

Rod Pampling, Craig Spence

5. Top 3 on the 1998–99 Southern Africa Tour Order of Merit

Scott Dunlap, David Frost, Richard Kaplan

6. Top 3 on the 1999 Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit through the Philip Morris Championship

Kazuhiko Hosokawa

• Shigeki Maruyama did not play.