Professional Golf
La Costa served as a home to two notable PGA Tour events. For thirty years, the resort hosted the Mercedes Championships (originally called the Tournament of Champions), from 1969 to 1998. That event left for Maui, Hawaii, when La Costa was selected to host the inaugural WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in 1999. It hosted that event for seven of eight years (the 2001 event was played in Australia), until it moved to Arizona in 2007. In March 2010, the resort hosted the Kia Classic, an LPGA tour event with an estimated attendance of 43,000. The Kia Classic is scheduled to return to La Costa in 2012.
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