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April 27, 2004
Wachovia Championship Field Will Include Winners of 23 Major Championships
The $5.6 Million Tournament at Quail Hollow, May 3-9 Will Pay $1,008,000 to Winner
CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 27, 2004 – Masters has joined what is shaping up to be an extremely strong field for the second annual Wachovia Championship at Quail Hollow, May 3-9.
Stewart Cink, winner of the MCI Heritage two weeks ago, and Chad Campbell, winner of the 2003 TOUR Championship, also committed today.
The Wachovia Championship, a 72-hole tournament that features a whopping $5.6 million purse, will pay $1,008,000 to the winner. David Toms is the defending champion.
Weir is one of 15 players in the field who have combined to win 23 major championships. That number could increase because players have until Friday (5 p.m, EDT) to enter the tournament.
The major champions in the field have combined to win five Masters Tournaments, five U.S. Opens, four British Opens and nine PGA Championships.
The field also features 31 of the top-50 ranked players in the world, including VijaySingh (2) winner of last week’s rain-delayed tournament, Davis Love III (4) and current Masters champion Phil Mickelson (6)
Weir, the No. 5-ranked player in the world, is coming off a breakthrough season in which he won three times, including the Masters, and missed just one cut all season. He finished fifth on the money list with earnings of more than $4.8 million.
The Canadian left-hander is having another outstanding year with a victory in the Nissan Open plus two other top-five finishes.
Singh, winner of the recently concluded Shell Houston Open, is actually No. 1 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index. In the past 12 months, Singh has won five tournaments, finished second six times and posted 21 top-10 finishes in 31 events.
Singh is coming off a career season is which he shattered personal records in virtually every category. Besides winning four times, Singh also won his first PGA TOUR money title ($7,573,907) and was the runner-up to Tiger Woods in the coveted Player of the Year race.
Love also had a spectacular season in 2003 with four victories and surpassed the $6-million mark in single-season earnings for the first time. He was the PGA TOUR’s leading money winner for 14 weeks and finished third in the money race. In his second start of 2003, he won the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am for the second time in three years.
Love has 18 wins on the PGA TOUR, including two Players Championships and the 1997 PGA Championship.
Mickelson, who won his first major victory when he captured the Masters Tournament at Augusta National earlier this month, ended 2003 as the 15th-ranked player in the world, but his fast start this year has moved him up to No. 6.
Other top world-ranked players in the field include Toms (15), Stuart Appleby (10), Nick Price (18), Jay Haas (20), Chris DiMarco (21), Fredrick Jacobson (20), Robert Allenby (24), Shigeki Maruyama (25) Brad Faxon (32), Justin Leonard (33) and Sergio Garcia (35).
The Wachovia Championship will be televised by USA Network on Thursday and Friday and by CBS on Saturday and Sunday.
Proceeds from all PGA TOUR events benefit charities selected by the tournament organization. The nationally known educational foundation, Teach For America, has been selected as the primary charitable recipient of the Wachovia Championship for 2004, in keeping with Wachovia's strong commitment to furthering education opportunities in local communities.
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About the Wachovia Championship
The Wachovia Championship is one of the largest, most prestigious sporting events in the Charlotte region. Now in its second year, the tournament is intended as an annual tradition that will bring customers, players and patrons back each year for an unforgettable golf experience, and is poised to become the number one non-major event on the PGA TOUR. The 2004 tournament will be held May 3-9. Sponsored by Wachovia Corporation (NYSE:WB), the tournament’s $1 million purse is one of the largest on the PGA TOUR, and is expected to draw many of the world’s top golfers to Charlotte.
For more information, visit the tournament website, www.wachoviachampionship.com.
About Wachovia
Wachovia Corporation (NYSE:WB) is one of the largest providers of financial services to retail, brokerage and corporate customers throughout the East Coast and the nation, with assets of $411.0 billion, market capitalization of $61.7 billion and stockholders’ equity of $33.3 billion at March 31, 2004. Its four core businesses, the General Bank, Capital Management, Wealth Management, and the Corporate and Investment Bank, serve 12 million client relationships (including households and businesses), primarily in 11 East Coast states and Washington, D.C. Its full-service retail brokerage firm, Wachovia Securities, LLC, serves clients in 49 states. Global services are provided through 32 international offices. Online banking and brokerage products and services also are available through Wachovia.com.
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