Mercedes-Benz Championship (PGA Tour)
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For the identically named event on the European Tour see Mercedes-Benz Championship (European Tour).

The Mercedes-Benz Championship is the opening event of golf's PGA Tour season. The field is restricted to golfers who won an event on the Tour in the previous season. It is played the first weekend in January, and has been at Kapalua Resort's Plantation Course in Lahaina, Hawaii, since 1999. The event was played in Las Vegas, Nevada from the event's inception in 1953 until 1968, first at The Desert Inn Golf & Country Club until 1966, and then at Stardust Country Club. After that, it began a 30-year relationship with La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California, which lasted until the event was moved to its current location in Hawaii.

Winners

Note: Green highlight indicates scoring record.

Mercedes-Benz Championship

Year	Player	Country	Score	1st Prize
2008	Daniel Chopra	Sweden	274 (-18)	$1,100,000
2007	Vijay Singh	Fiji	278 (-14)	$1,100,000

Mercedes Championships

Year	Player	Country	Score	1st Prize
2006	Stuart Appleby	Australia	284 (-8)	$1,080,000
2005	Stuart Appleby	Australia	271 (-21)	$1,060,000
2004	Stuart Appleby	Australia	270 (-22)	$1,060,000
2003	Ernie Els	South Africa	261 (-31)	$1,000,000
2002	Sergio García	Spain	274 (-18)	$720,000
2001	Jim Furyk	United States	274 (-18)	$630,000
2000	Tiger Woods	United States	276 (-16)	$522,000
1999	David Duval	United States	266 (-26)	$468,000
1998	Phil Mickelson	United States	271 (-17)	$306,000
1997	Tiger Woods	United States	202 (-14)	$216,000
1996	Mark O'Meara	United States	271 (-17)	$180,000
1995	Steve Elkington	Australia	278 (-10)	$180,000
1994	Phil Mickelson	United States	276 (-12)	$180,000

Infiniti Tournament of Champions

Year	Player	Country	Score	1st Prize
1993	Davis Love III	United States	272 (-16)	$144,000
1992	Steve Elkington	Australia	279 (-9)	$144,000
1991	Tom Kite	United States	272 (-16)	$144,000

MONY Tournament of Champions

Year	Player	Country	Score	1st Prize
1990	Paul Azinger	United States	272 (-16)	$135,000
1989	Steve Jones	United States	279 (-9)	$135,000
1988	Steve Pate	United States	202 (-14)	$90,000
1987	Mac O'Grady	United States	278 (-10)	$90,000
1986	Calvin Peete	United States	267 (-21)	$90,000
1985	Tom Kite	United States	275 (-13)	$72,000
1984	Tom Watson	United States	274 (-14)	$72,000
1983	Lanny Wadkins	United States	280 (-8)	$72,000
1982	Lanny Wadkins	United States	280 (-8)	$63,000
1981	Lee Trevino	United States	273 (-15)	$54,000
1980	Tom Watson	United States	276 (-12)	$54,000
1979	Tom Watson	United States	275 (-13)	$54,000
1978	Gary Player	South Africa	281 (-7)	$45,000
1977	Jack Nicklaus	United States	281 (-7)	$45,000
1976	Don January	United States	277 (-11)	$45,000
1975	Al Geiberger	United States	277 (-11)	$40,000

Tournament of Champions

Year	Player	Country	Score	1st Prize
1974	Johnny Miller	United States	280 (-8)	$40,000
1973	Jack Nicklaus	United States	276 (-12)	$40,000
1972	Bobby Mitchell	United States	280 (-8)	$33,000
1971	Jack Nicklaus	United States	279 (-9)	$33,000
1970	Frank Beard	United States	273 (-15)	$30,000

Year	Player	Country	Score
1969	Gary Player	South Africa	284
1968	Don January	United States	276
1967	Frank Beard	United States	278
1966	Arnold Palmer	United States	283
1965	Arnold Palmer	United States	277
1964	Jack Nicklaus	United States	279
1963	Jack Nicklaus	United States	273
1962	Arnold Palmer	United States	276
1961	Sam Snead	United States	273
1960	Jerry Barber	United States	268
1959	Mike Souchak	United States	281
1958	Stan Leonard	Canada	275
1957	Gene Littler	United States	285
1956	Gene Littler	United States	281
1955	Gene Littler	United States	280
1954	Art Wall, Jr.	United States	278
1953	Al Besselink	United States	280

Multiple winners

Thirteen men have won the Mercedes-Benz Championship more than once through 2007.

• 5 wins
  • Jack Nicklaus: 1963, 1964, 1971, 1973, 1977

• 3 wins
  • Stuart Appleby: 2004, 2005, 2006
  • Gene Littler: 1955, 1956, 1957
  • Arnold Palmer: 1962, 1965, 1966
  • Tom Watson: 1979, 1980, 1984

• 2 wins
  • Frank Beard: 1967, 1970
  • Steve Elkington: 1992, 1995
  • Don January: 1968, 1976
  • Tom Kite: 1985, 1991
  • Phil Mickelson: 1994, 1998
  • Gary Player: 1969, 1978
  • Lanny Wadkins: 1982, 1983
  • Tiger Woods: 1997, 2000

External links

• Coverage on the PGA Tour's official site
• Mercedes-Benz Championship results since 1970 - Winners, Finishers, Scores and Earnings