World Wide Technology Championship
Tournament information
LocationLos Cabos, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Established2007
Course(s)El Cardonal
Par72
Length7,363 yards (6,733 m)
Tour(s)PGA Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fundUS$8,200,000
Month playedNovember
Tournament record score
Aggregate261 Viktor Hovland (2021)
261 Russell Henley (2022)
261 Erik van Rooyen (2023)
To par−27 Erik van Rooyen (2023)
Current champion
South Africa Erik van Rooyen
Location Map
El Cardonal is located in Mexico
El Cardonal
El Cardonal
Location in Mexico
El Cardonal is located in Baja California Sur
El Cardonal
El Cardonal

The World Wide Technology Championship is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour in Mexico, contested at the Tiger Woods-designed El Cardonal golf course within the Diamante Cabo San Lucas resort. It debuted in February 2007 and was the first PGA Tour event to take place in Mexico. The first 16 years of the tournament took place in Riviera Maya before the tournament was moved to Los Cabos in 2023.

History

Originally an alternate event in late winter, the tournament was played the same week as the WGC Match Play event in Arizona. Mayakoba was part of the FedEx Cup, but only earned half the points of a regular event. The prize fund in 2007 was US$3.5 million (with a winner's share of $630,000),[1] making it the richest golf tournament in Mexico.[2]

Fred Funk, a winner four months earlier on the Champions Tour, took the inaugural event in a playoff over José Cóceres of Argentina.[1][3] Funk was 50 years, 257 days of age and became the oldest player to win a PGA Tour event in nearly 32 years;[4] Art Wall was about eleven months older when he won the Greater Milwaukee Open in July 1975.[5]

In 2013, the event was moved to mid-November to be part of the 2014 season as a primary event in the early part of the season, which began in October for the first time.[6] The tournament now offered full FedEx Cup points, a Masters invitation, and a large purse increase (over 60%, to $6 million). With the tour's new schedule, the Mayakoba event was not part of the abbreviated 2013 season.

The Golf Classic is allocated four additional sponsor exemptions designated for players of Spanish or Mexican heritage from Latin America, South America, Spain, or Mexico.[7]

In 2021, World Wide Technology was announced as the new title sponsor of the event, in a deal lasting until 2027.[8]

In November 2022, it was noted that the El Camaleón Golf Course had been added to the roster for the 2023 LIV Golf League.[9] With the PGA Tour and LIV Golf's ongoing legal battle, the tour decided to end its relationship with Mayakoba.[10] In January 2023, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan confirmed that the tour was working with World Wide Technology, but did not see them being back at Mayakoba.[11]

Winners

Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up Purse
($)
Winner's
share ($)
World Wide Technology Championship
2023South Africa Erik van Rooyen261−272 strokesUnited States Matt Kuchar
Colombia Camilo Villegas
8,200,0001,476,000
2022United States Russell Henley261−234 strokesUnited States Brian Harman8,200,0001,476,000
2021Norway Viktor Hovland (2)261−234 strokesMexico Carlos Ortiz7,200,0001,296,000
Mayakoba Golf Classic
2020Norway Viktor Hovland264−201 strokeUnited States Aaron Wise7,200,0001,296,000
2019United States Brendon Todd264−201 strokeUnited States Adam Long
Mexico Carlos Ortiz
United States Vaughn Taylor
7,200,0001,296,000
2018United States Matt Kuchar262−221 strokeNew Zealand Danny Lee7,200,0001,296,000
OHL Classic at Mayakoba
2017United States Patton Kizzire265−191 strokeUnited States Rickie Fowler7,100,0001,278,000
2016United States Pat Perez263−212 strokesUnited States Gary Woodland7,000,0001,260,000
2015Northern Ireland Graeme McDowell266−18PlayoffUnited States Jason Bohn
Scotland Russell Knox
6,200,0001,116,000
2014United States Charley Hoffman267−171 strokeUnited States Shawn Stefani6,100,0001,098,000
2013United States Harris English263−214 strokesUnited States Brian Stuard6,000,0001,080,000
Mayakoba Golf Classic
2012United States John Huh271−13PlayoffAustralia Robert Allenby3,700,000666,000
2011United States Johnson Wagner267−17PlayoffUnited States Spencer Levin3,700,000666,000
2010United States Cameron Beckman269−152 strokesUnited States Joe Durant
United States Brian Stuard
3,600,000648,000
2009United States Mark Wilson267−132 strokesUnited States J. J. Henry3,600,000648,000
2008United States Brian Gay264−162 strokesUnited States Steve Marino3,500,000630,000
2007United States Fred Funk266−14PlayoffArgentina José Cóceres3,500,000630,000

Note: Green highlight indicates scoring records.

References

  1. 1 2 "Scoreboard: At Playa del Carmen, Mexico". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). February 26, 2007. p. D4.
  2. "Mayakoba Golf Classic". Archived from the original on October 30, 2006.
  3. "50-year-old Funk wins at Mayakoba". Star-News. (Wilmington, North Carolina). Associated Press. February 26, 2007. p. 3C.
  4. "Oldest PGA Tour winners". Retrieved May 14, 2009.
  5. "Art Wall a winner at Milwaukee". Daytona Beach Morning Journal. (Florida). Associated Press. July 7, 1975. p. 1C.
  6. "2013–14 PGA Tour schedule (2013 tournaments)". PGA Tour. December 12, 2012. Retrieved May 14, 2013.
  7. "2015–16 PGA Tour Player Handbook & Tournament Regulations" (PDF). October 5, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 12, 2016.
  8. "World Wide Technology Named Mayakoba Title Sponsor Through 2027". Yahoo! Finance. 19 July 2021. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  9. Schupak, Adam (28 November 2022). "Mexico's Mayakoba Resort jumps ship from PGA Tour to LIV Golf". Golfweek. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  10. Bastable, Alan (5 December 2022). "'Not an easy decision': Why this longtime PGA Tour site embraced LIV Golf". Golf.com. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  11. Dethier, Dylan (9 January 2023). "Jay Monahan met with media. Here are 15 issues he addressed". Golf.com. Retrieved 9 January 2023.

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