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World Wide Technology Championship: Past Winners, Stats & History

Mexican Flag Against Blue SkyThe World Wide Technology Championship, previously known as the Mayakoba Golf Classic, is a PGA Tour event which is played in Mexico, usually in November. This was the first regular PGA Tour event to be played outside of the USA or Canada.

Although it was widely welcomed by Mexican golf fans when introduced in 2007, few fans watched the action on TV as it ran as an alternate event alongside the WGC Matchplay. That all changed in 2013 when it became a fully fledged PGA Tour event, attracting stronger fields and much more support from fans.

The host course for this tournament is the Tiger Woods designed El Cardonal Golf Course at the Diamante resort in Cabo San Lucas on the Baja California Sur peninsula in Mexico. When this course hosted the WWT Championship in 2023, it became the first Tiger Woods designed course to feature on the PGA Tour.

Quick Facts

Course Location Length Prize Money
El Cardonal at Diamante Los Cabos, Mexico 7,452 yards $7,200,000
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WWT Championship Recent Winners

Year Winner To Par Winning Margin Course
2024 Austin Eckroat -24 1 Stroke El Cardonal at Diamante
2023 Erik van Rooyen -27 2 Strokes El Cardonal at Diamante
2022 Russell Henley -23 4 Strokes El Camaleon Golf Club
2021 Viktor Hovland -23 4 Strokes El Camaleon Golf Club
2020 Viktor Hovland -20 1 Stroke El Camaleon Golf Club
2019 Brendon Todd -20 1 Stroke El Camaleon Golf Club
2018 Matt Kuchar -22 1 Stroke El Camaleon Golf Club
2017 Patton Kizzire -19 1 Stroke El Camaleon Golf Club
2016 Pat Perez -21 2 Strokes El Camaleon Golf Club
2015 Graeme McDowell -18 Playoff El Camaleon Golf Club
2014 Charley Hoffman -17 1 Stroke El Camaleon Golf Club
2013 Harris English -21 4 Strokes El Camaleon Golf Club
2012 John Huh -13 Playoff El Camaleon Golf Club
2011 Johnson Wagner -17 Playoff El Camaleon Golf Club
2010 Cameron Beckman -15 2 Strokes El Camaleon Golf Club
2009 Mark Wilson -13 2 Strokes El Camaleon Golf Club
2008 Brian Gay -16 2 Strokes El Camaleon Golf Club
2007 Fred Funk -14 Playoff El Camaleon Golf Club

About the Mayakoba Golf Classic

Mexican Flag Against Blue Sky

The World Wide Technology Championship – which is currently held at El Cardonal Golf Course, Mexico – has been part of the PGA Tour since 2007. It was the first regular PGA Tour event to be held outside of the United States of America or Canada. The tournament has become a prestigious competition, with the world’s best players competing for the trophy each year.

The course switched to El Cardonal at Diamante in Los Cabos from El Camaleon Golf Club at Mayakoba from 2023. Greg Norman, who was a central figure in the formation of the breakaway Saudi LIV Golf series, designed El Cameleon, with the course added to the LIV tour as the opening event of 2023.

Funk Wins First in 2007

Fred Funk
Fred Funk (Mattman944 / Wikipedia.org)

The inaugural tournament in 2007 was won by Fred Funk. Funk won eight PGA Tour titles during his career, with victory in Mexico being his last. A 50 year old Funk made history, becoming the oldest player to win on the tour in over three decades.

It was a thrilling event at Playa del Carmen, with Funk edging out South American Jose Coceres in a playoff. The Maryland man shot 14 under par to pick up the first Mayakoba Golf Classic and his last PGA Tour title.

Interestingly, not many of the world’s biggest players made the trip to Mexico for the first tournament, with Matt Kuchar being perhaps the biggest name that year. The likes of Boo Weekley, Bill Haas and Joe Ogilvie were present, but in general the inaugural Mayakoba Golf Classic wasn’t quite as glittering as it could have been in terms of the quality of the players in attendance.

McDowell Breaks the Trend

Graeme McDowell
Graeme McDowell by Tour Pro Golf Clubs, flickr

American players have enjoyed unrivalled success in this tournament since it began. Quite astoundingly, 13 of the 16 Mayakoba Golf Classics up to and including the 2022 renewal (that was played in the 2023 PGA Tour season… more of which later!) have been won by Americans. After eight successive American winners, however, Northern Ireland ace Graeme McDowell broke the trend in 2015 (2016 season).

McDowell picked up his first PGA Tour event for two years, winning a playoff against American Jason Bohn and Scottish star Russell Knox. “I’ve been dreaming of this day and I said I was going to appreciate it when it came,” said McDowell following his memorable triumph in Mexico.

Chart Showing the Nationality of Mayakoba Golf Classic Winners Between 2007 and 2022

Kizzire Edges Out Fowler

In November 2017 (2018 PGA Tour season), Patton Kizzire won his first PGA Tour event. The man from Montgomery, Alabama went head-to-head with Rickie Fowler, who had won the Honda Classic just a few months earlier.

Kizzire got off to a blistering start, shooting a highly impressive score of 62 in his opening round. He couldn’t sustain that outstanding standard and managed only a one-under-par 70 in his second round. He bounced back a little in the third with a 66, then finished up with a decent enough score of 67. It could have gone either way in Mexico, but Kizzire held on to edge it, and thus secured a win on the PGA Tour for the first time. Fowler went on to finish just a single stroke behind. Two months later, Kizzire won the Sony Open in Hawaii, this time beating James Hahn in a playoff.

Chart Showing the Top 5 Players in the 2017 Mayakoba Golf Classic

Todd Wins a Thriller in 2019

The 2019 version (yep, you’ve guessed it, on the PGA Tour 2020 season) was also a memorable tournament. Brendon Todd, Adam Long, Carlos Ortiz and Vaughn Taylor were all in with a shout of lifting the trophy in the latter stages with all having scored in the 60s for each of their opening three rounds.

When it came to the crunch, it was Todd (who had won the Bermuda Championship a couple of weeks before) who held his nerve to seal his third PGA Tour win. Pennsylvania-born Todd beat the other three by a single stroke at El Camaleon Golf Club, earning a handsome cheque for $1,296,000 in the process.

Chart Showing the Top 5 Players in the 2019 Mayakoba Golf Classic

What’s in a Date?

Mayakoba Golf Classic
Mayakoba Golf Classic (Noticaribe / Flickr.com)

Until 2024, the PGA Tour “year” didn’t follow a calendar year, and because the Mayakoba Golf Classic is played in the early part of the season; as such, since the 2013 event, the official year of each event (from the PGA Tour perspective) has actually been the following year.

So, the 2013 event took place in the 2014 PGA Tour season, the 2014 in the 2015 season and so on. The same system is in place for other early-season events, which is a minor headache for statisticians and historians, but it’s not something most fans need to be overly concerned about (although it could cause disputes in pub quizzes if a golf question isn’t worded explicitly!).

El Camaleon Golf Club

El Camaleon Golf Club
El Camaleon Golf Club (LubomirSub / commons.wikimedia.org)

The Mayakoba Classic, currently the World Wide Technology Championship, has been an ever present on the PGA Tour since its introduction in 2007. Between the first tournament and 2022, the host venue was the Greg Norman designed El Camaleon Golf Club, which is located around 60km south of Cancun on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The course itself is just a stone’s throw from the Caribbean Sea, no doubt this was a factor in the event’s popularity with players and spectators alike.

Over the years, this course developed a reputation for allowing many different types of golfer to win. With winners including Brendon Todd, Matt Kuchar and Graeme McDowell it’s clear that power was by no means a prerequisite for success. Instead, it was all about approach play and putting at Playa del Carmen. Only the very best ball strikers were able to separate themselves from the field in terms of strokes gained approaching the green.

The course at El Camaleon Golf Club, which has a length of 7,039 yards, could be tricky to navigate. Players seemed to enjoy playing there in general though, with 2010 champion Cameron Beckman saying of the course, “I love the place. The layout is beautiful, the greens are awesome, and the course is challenging and fair.”

Ultimately, it was the best putter of the best approach players who came out on top on this 7,039 yard layout. A winning score of at least -20 was frequently achieved, with those competing at the top of the leaderboard hitting a lot of birdies.

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