World Wide Technology Championship Preview: Course, Field, History, Tee Times, How To Watch

With conscionable 3 charismatic PGA Tour events near successful 2025, it’s clip for nan World Wide Technology Championship astatine El Cardonal connected nan Diamante Cabo San Lucas edifice astatine nan extremity of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula. A 120-player field will vie for portion of an $6 cardinal purse, pinch nan victor collecting $1,080,000—and galore are trying to unafraid position for nan 2026 pinch clip dwindling. 

From its field, course, history, tee times and really to watch, here’s everything you request to cognize for nan 2025 World Wide Technology Championship. 

The tourney will beryllium highlighted by 7 of nan apical 60 players successful nan world: J.J. Spaun (No. 6), Ben Griffin (No. 12), Max Greyserman (No. 31), Wyndham Clark (No. 33), Nick Taylor (No. 41), Michael Brennan (No. 42) and Johnny Keefer (No. 53), who is nan reigning Korn Ferry Tour Player of nan Year. 

There will besides beryllium 4 past World Wide Technology Championship winners: Patton Kizzire (2017), Matt Kuchar (2018), Erik van Rooyen (2023) and Austin Eckroat (2024). 

Plus, 4 autochthonal Mexicans looking to triumph connected location soil: Mexico (4): Emilio Gil Leyva, Emilio Gonzalez,, Alejandro Madariaga and Omar Morales. 

For mostly of nan players competing this week, it’s an opportunity to get wrong nan apical 100 successful FedEx Cup points and unafraid their cards for adjacent play pinch 3 autumn events left. 

David Lipsky is connected nan bubble astatine No. 100 and is successful nan section this week, on pinch Max McGreevy (96), Thorbjorn Olesen (97) and Beau Hossler (98), Sami Valimaki (102), Isaiah Salinda (103) and Patrick Fishburn (104), Joel Dahmen (108) and Lanto Griffin (111). 

A Tiger Woods Design Is Hosting

The first 16 iterations of nan WWT Championship took spot successful Riviera Maya astatine Mayakoba. However, erstwhile nan people accepted an connection to big a LIV Golf event, nan PGA Tour moved nan arena to nan Tiger Woods-designed El Cardonal successful 2023.

And Woods’s layout made an belief connected nan players.

“Tiger was talking astir really he conscionable likes to make group deliberation connected nan play people and nan backmost 9 retired present is conscionable each strategy,” Sahith Theegala said successful 2023. “There’s very fewer drivers, a batch of placement. You request to person bully angles aliases other these small cacti travel into play and nan measurement nan arroyos and nan godforsaken is astir nan greens. It's a bully blend of benignant of tactical, strategical golf.”

El Cardonal is simply a par-72, 7,452-yard layout. The mean fairway widths are 60 yards pinch zero acres of rough. There are 48 bunkers (the third-fewest connected Tour) pinch 1 h2o hazard and mean greenish size is 8,300 quadrate feet (the third-largest connected Tour this year).

In 2024, nan people was nan 36th easiest connected Tour (out of 50), pinch a scoring mean of 70.06 (1.94 strokes nether par). 

Its hardest spread was nan 483-yard par-4 4th, yielding a scoring mean of 4.213 (.213 strokes complete par), making it nan 77th toughest spread connected Tour (out of 900). Its easiest hole, meanwhile, was nan 582-yard par-5 1st, playing .685 nether par arsenic nan 13th easiest spread connected Tour. 

In 2023, Erik Van Rooyen claimed an awesome triumph pinch a dense heart. 

His champion friend, Jon Trasamar, was battling Stage 4 melanoma.

Thinking astir his erstwhile teammate astatine nan University of Minnesota, nan South African’s triumph hopes were dwindling precocious successful nan last information astatine Mayakoba. Then, he went scorched earth. 

Van Rooyen vanished birdie-birdie-eagle successful his last 3 holes for a back-nine 8-under 28 for nan win. And he entered nan week classed 125th successful nan FedExCup Fall standings, nan past spot to support his paper for nan pursuing season. With nan triumph, though, that was nary longer a worry. 

But nan triumph was bigger than golf.

“He’s not gonna make it,” van Rooyen told NBC Sports connected nan 18th greenish aft nan win. “Every changeable retired location coming was for him. And erstwhile you’re playing for thing bigger than winning immoderate silly trophy, it puts things successful perspective.

“At nan extremity of nan day, whether I won present aliases I mislaid here, it really did not matter. When thing motivates you for illustration that, whether you make a putt aliases miss a putt, who cares?”

Van Rooyen boarded a formation to Minnesota nan adjacent greeting to opportunity goodbye. Trasamar died connected Nov. 11.

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