against the second day of the NFL Wild Card Playoff round. For the 2021 tournament, the PGA Tour announced that the field would be expanded to include the 30 players qualifying for the 2020 Tour Championship in addition to tournament winners during the 2020 calendar year. The change was made following the cancellation of ten tournaments due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2022 edition reverted to the usual winners-only field, but the addition of Tour Championship qualifiers was made permanent in 2023. Television While being played at LaCosta, the weekend rounds were traditionally televised by ABC Sports. However, after moving to Hawaii in 1999, the time difference was not conducive to network television. The event moved to ABC's cable partner ESPN for four-round coverage. In 2007, the event moved to four-round coverage on the Golf Channel. In 2012, NBC Sports began showing weekend play, while also producing the new Monday final round for sister network Golf Channel. Starting in 2018, Thursday-Sunday coverage split between Golf Channel and NBC, with the latter picking up weekend coverage when not in conflict with the network's broadcasts of NFL playoff games. Winners Note: Green highlight indicates scoring records. Multiple winners Sixteen men have won the tournament more than once through 2023. 5 wins Jack Nicklaus: 1963, 1964, 1971, 1973, 1977 3 wins Gene Littler: 1955, 1956, 1957 Arnold Palmer: 1962, 1965, 1966 Tom Watson: 1979, 1980, 1984 Stuart Appleby: 2004, 2005, 2006 2 wins Frank Beard: 1967, 1970 Don January: 1968, 1976 Gary Player: 1969, 1978 Lanny Wadkins: 1982, 1983 Tom Kite: 1985, 1991 Steve Elkington: 1992, 1995 Phil Mickelson: 1994, 1998 Tiger Woods: 1997, 2000 Geoff Ogilvy: 2009, 2010 Dustin Johnson: 2013, 2018 Justin Thomas: 2017, 2020 Tournament highlights 1953: Al Besselink wins the inaugural Tournament of Champions (TOC) by one shot over Chandler Harper. 1955: Gene Littler is victorious at the TOC for the first time. He wins by 13 shots over Pete Cooper, Jerry Barber, and Bob Toski. 1957: For the third consecutive year, Gene Littler is victorious at the TOC. He finishes three shots ahead of Billy Casper, Jimmy Demaret, Dow Finsterwald, and Billy Maxwell. 1959: Mike Souchak wins by two shots over Art Wall Jr. in spite of his shooting a final round 77. 1960: Jerry Barber shoots 268, a TOC tournament mark for its time in Las Vegas. He beats Jay Hebert by four shots. 1962: Arnold Palmer