Back in the early 1990s, Greg Norman – then the biggest star in the sport – tried to create a professional golf tour where only 48 of the top players in the world would be allowed to compete with a limited number of tournaments (as opposed to the too-long PGA Tour season) and huge purses. That failed, but out of that venture came the World Golf Championships.

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Those events debuted in 1999 and there are now four of them annually, two in the United States, one in China and this week’s WGC-Mexico Championship in Mexico City. WGC tournaments have limited fields via qualification standards, which means no cut, and much bigger purses than regular Tour events. They were created to get top players from around the world together in events other than the four major championships. Like the majors, these tournaments are part of both the PGA Tour and European Tour.

The WGC-Mexico Championship debuted as the WGC-American Express Championship in Spain in 1999 and was won by Tiger Woods. It moved around a bit over the years with different sponsorship names and landed in Mexico City starting in 2017. It is played at altitude at the par-71, 7,345-yard Club de Golf Chapultepec.