World Wide Technology Championship 2024 odds, course history and picks to win

Let’s get a winner south of the border.

The PGA Tour is back in action this week for the World Wide Technology Championship south of the border. The Tiger Woods-designed El Cardonal at Diamante Cabo San Lucas in Los Cabos, Mexico, once again plays host after making its Tour debut in 2023.

Cameron Young — still looking for his first win — headlines the field and will be joined by defending champion Erik van Rooyen, Lucas Glover, Harris English, Keith Mitchell, Maverick McNealy and Beau Hossler, among others. Zozo Championship winner Nico Echavarria — finished T-31 at El Cardonal last year — will also tee it up Thursday.

This week’s winner will go home with $1.296 million of the $7.2 million purse, as well as 500 FedEx Cup points.

More: Enjoy golf on Cabo time at Cove Club, Diamante in Cabo San Lucas

Now, let’s jump into our betting preview for the World Wide Technology Championship.

Golf course

El Cardonal at Diamante Cabo San Lucas | Par 72 | 7,452 yards

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The 11th green at El Cardonal for the 2023 World Wide Technology Championship in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico. (Photo: Hector Vivas/Getty Images)

Things to keep in mind

  • Fairways and greens are extremely easy to hit at this golf course. This tournament will come down to proximity to the hole and who has the hot flat-stick.
  • van Rooyen won at 27 under last year, and the weather for the week looks good. Expect a similar winning score and target players who make a lot of birdies.
  • Three stats we’ll prioritize: Birdie percentage, proximity from the fairway and Strokes Gained: Putting.

World Wide Technology Championship odds

Player Odds Player Odds
Max Greyserman (+1600) Lucas Glover (+2800)
Doug Ghim (+2200) Sam Stevens (+3000)
Cameron Young (+2200) Matt Kuchar (+3000)
Matti Schmid (+2200) Keith Mitchell (+3000)
Harris English (+2500) Jhonattan Vegas (+3000)
Beau Hossler (+2500) Erik van Rooyen (+3500)
J.J. Spaun (+2800) Tom Hoge (+3500)
Harry Hall (+2800) Taylor Moore (+3500)
Ben Griffin (+2800) Daniel Berger (+4000)
Maverick McNealy (+2800) Austin Eckroat (+4000)

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World Wide Technology Championship picks to win

Cameron Young (20/1)

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Cameron Young of the United States plays a shot from the 14th tee during a practice round prior to the Rocket Mortgage Classic at Detroit Golf Club on June 26, 2024, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Raj Mehta/Getty Images)

Analysis: Young has burned me more times than I’d like to remember, but this spot sets up so well for him. Not many players on Tour can make birdies in bunches as well as Young does, just look at the 59 he posted earlier this season at the Travelers. Plus, he’s the one big name in this rank-and-file field. Hopefully, he can take advantage of that and grab his first Tour win.

Update: Young has withdrawn from the event.

Keith Mitchell (30/1)

Keith Mitchell of the United States reacts to his putt on the 17th green during the third round of the Sanderson Farms Championship 2024 at the Country Club of Jackson on October 5, 2024, in Jackson, Mississippi. (Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images)

Analysis: This pick makes me a little nervous thanks to Mitchell’s case of the Sunday Scaries, but I’m rolling with him anyway. This season, Mitchell ranks T-4 in proximity from the fairway and second in birdie average, only behind world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler. And yes, he’s missed two cuts in a row. However, he played some great golf at the Sanderson Farms Championship in early October, where he finished T-3 after being the 54-hole leader.

Michael Kim (45/1)

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Michael Kim acknowledges the crowd on the 18th hole during the final round of the 2024 Shriners Children’s Open at TPC Summerlin. (David Becker/Getty Images)

Analysis: Kim is known by most fans for his Twitter/X presence, but I like this spot for the 31-year-old. He’s fresh off a T-5 finish at the Shriners Children’s Open, and he tied for 23rd at El Cardonal in 2023. This season, Kim ranks 12th in proximity from the fairway and sixth in birdie average. All signs point to the Cal product having a nice week in Mexico.

Patton Kizzire (60/1)

Patton Kizzire of the United States lines up his putt on the third hole during the third round of the Procore Championship 2024 at Silverado Resort on Sept. 14, 2024, in Napa, California. (Photo by Eakin Howard/Getty Images)

Analysis: Kizzire is coming off a missed cut at the Shriners Children’s Open in Las Vegas, but has played some great golf during the FedEx Cup Fall, including a win at the Procore Championship and a T-11 finish at the Sanderson Farms Championship. Like Mitchell, Kizzire thrives in two of our key categories for the week. He’s T-4 in proximity from the fairway and fifth in birdie average. Last season, Kizzire finished T-15 at this event.

Teen Monday qualifies into first PGA Tour event at course designed by his idol, Tiger Woods

Dylan Brack continues to do things to impress his childhood idol, Tiger Woods.

Dylan Brack continues to do things to impress his childhood idol, Tiger Woods.

Brack, an 18-year-old from Riverside, California, shot 8-under 64 at Palmilla Golf Club in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico, at the Monday qualifier for the World Wide Technology Championship. He’ll make his PGA Tour debut this week at El Cardonal at Diamante in Los Cabos, the first course designed by Woods to hold a Tour event.

Brack, who started swinging with a plastic toy set at 2 ½ and joined the First Tee – Greater Pasadena at age 4 ½, participated in the TGR Learning Lab’s Player Development Program from age 7 to 12. He also won the inaugural TGR JR Invitational in 2022.

On his personal web site, Brack explained at a young age his parents purchased a right-handed putter and clubs and cut them down since they were still too big for him. But his parents noticed he would regularly turn the clubs around to imitate the pros he’d see on TV. Much like Phil. Mickelson before him, he began playing left-handed even though he’s right-handed.

Brack, who is half-Japanese and half-English, also has some family history in the game. His great-grandfather Yutaka “James” Ihira was a champion golfer in Hawaii, and he counts Tadd Fujikawa as a distant relative.

For a young golfer who has had his share of ties to Tiger, Brack adds another to list as he makes his Tour debut as an amateur.

Ryan Gerard, who earned his Tour card for next season via the Korn Ferry Tour money list, shot 65 along with Zach Bauchou, and William Moll nailed down the final berth in the field by winning a 3-for-1 playoff after posting 66.

Field set for 2024 World Wide Technology at Tiger Woods’ course in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

The tournament is the third-to-last event on the FedEx Cup Fall series.

We may not see him there but we’ll see his handiwork on full display.

The Tiger Woods-designed El Cardonal at Diamante Cabo San Lucas will be the stage for the PGA Tour’s World Wide Technology for a second time.

The tournament, set for Nov. 7-10, is the third-to-last event on the FedEx Cup Fall series, as many golfers continue to chase status for 2025. El Cardonal is a par 72 that will play 7,452 yards. It ranks 26th on the Golfweek’s Best 2024 list of top golf courses in Mexico, the Caribbean, the Atlantic islands and Central America.

The inaugural tournament at the course a year ago saw Erik van Rooyen hoist the trophy. He hasn’t won since but a strong week could boost him from the No. 67 spot he’s currently in. Golfers who finish 51-60 qualify for the first two signature events in 2025, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-am and the Genesis Invitational.

The field of 120:

  • Tyson Alexander
  • Billy Andrade
  • Aaron Baddeley
  • Paul Barjon
  • Erik Barnes
  • Isidro Benitez
  • Daniel Berger
  • Zac Blair
  • Joseph Bramlett
  • Ryan Brehm
  • Jacob Bridgeman
  • Wesley Bryan
  • Hayden Buckley
  • Rafael Campos
  • Bud Cauley
  • Cameron Champ
  • Kevin Chappell
  • Pierceson Coody
  • Trace Crowe
  • Joel Dahmen
  • Santiago de la Fuente
  • Luke Donald
  • Kevin Dougherty
  • Adrien Dumont de Chassart
  • Tyler Duncan
  • Nico Echavarria
  • Austin Eckroat
  • Harris English
  • Patrick Fishburn
  • Wilson Furr
  • Mark Geddes
  • Doug Ghim
  • Lucas Glover
  • Emilio Gonzalez
  • Will Gordon
  • Max Greyserman
  • Ben Griffin
  • Lanto Griffin
  • Chesson Hadley
  • Blaine Hale, Jr.
  • Harry Hall
  • Nick Hardy
  • Garrick Higgo
  • Harry Higgs
  • Joe Highsmith
  • Austin Hitt
  • Rico Hoey
  • Charley Hoffman
  • Tom Hoge
  • J.B. Holmes
  • Beau Hossler
  • Michael Kim
  • S.H. Kim
  • Patton Kizzire
  • Kelly Kraft
  • Matt Kuchar
  • Martin Laird
  • Nate Lashley
  • K.H. Lee
  • David Lipsky
  • Luke List
  • Justin Lower
  • Ryan McCormick
  • Maverick McNealy
  • Troy Merritt
  • Keith Mitchell
  • Taylor Montgomery
  • Ryan Moore
  • Taylor Moore
  • Omar Morales
  • Trey Mullinax
  • Matt NeSmith
  • Henrik Norlander
  • Ryan Palmer
  • Raul Pereda
  • Chandler Phillips
  • Scott Piercy
  • Chad Ramey
  • Chez Reavie
  • Patrick Rodgers
  • Sam Ryder
  • Adam Schenk
  • Matti Schmid
  • Robby Shelton
  • Neal Shipley
  • Greyson Sigg
  • David Skinns
  • Roger Sloan
  • Alex Smalley
  • Austin Smotherman
  • J.J. Spaun
  • Hayden Springer
  • Sam Stevens
  • Kevin Streelman
  • Justin Suh
  • Adam Svensson
  • Callum Tarren
  • Ben Taylor
  • Josh Teater
  • Alejandro Tosti
  • Martin Trainer
  • Kevin Tway
  • Erik van Rooyen
  • Jhonattan Vegas
  • Camilo Villegas
  • Andrew Walker
  • Vince Whaley
  • Tom Whitney
  • Tim Wilkinson
  • Danny Willett
  • Brandon Wu
  • Dylan Wu
  • Norman Xiong
  • Cameron Young
  • Carson Young
  • Carl Yuan

A total of 12 sponsor exemptions were doled out to Billy Andrade, Isidro Benitez, Santiago de la Fuente, Luke Donald, Emilio Gonzalez, Harry Higgs, Austin Hitt, Omar Morales, Ryan Palmer, Scott Piercy, Neal Shipley, and Andrew Walker.

Adam Long hits 56-of-56 fairways at PGA Tour’s World Wide Technology Championship

The last time a player hit every fairway across four days of PGA Tour play was in 1992 at the Memorial.

Wide fairways were a talking point all week as the PGA Tour hosted its first event at a Tiger Woods-designed golf course.

But just how wide are the fairways at El Cardonal at Diamante in Los Cabos, Mexico? Adam Long hit 56-of-56 fairways over the four rounds of the 2023 World Wide Technology Championship to become the first player with 100 percent driving accuracy in a Tour event since Brian Claar at the 1992 Memorial Tournament. Long finished T-23 at 17 under, 10 shots behind the winner Erik van Rooyen.

The performance was impressive, but shouldn’t come as a surprise seeing as Long is 17th in driving accuracy on Tour at 65.48 percent. According to Data Golf, 18 players hit every fairway during Thursday’s morning wave. The field hit nearly 90 percent of fairways after the first round. The Tour average on the season? 58.07 percent.

Long has made 36 starts this season and has missed the cut in half of his appearances. He’s earned just three top-25 finishes, with the last coming in July at the Barbasol Championship (T-16).

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‘Meant to be’: Erik van Rooyen wins 2023 World Wide Technology Championship for terminally-ill friend

“He used to play to not get embarrassed. It’s gonna take a little bit to let the predator out.” The predator came out on Sunday.

LOS CABOS, Mexico – As soon as Erik van Rooyen struck his 2-iron into the fairway at the par-5 finishing hole, he turned to his caddie Alex Gaugert and said, “One more of those,” implying he planned to use the same club again for his next shot.

Van Rooyen was tied for the lead on Sunday at El Cardonal at Diamante and when he heard he had 272 yards to the front and 304 yards to the hole, he said, “Perfect for the 2-iron.”

Gaugert had another idea.

“I’m like, Dude, I don’t mind something landing front edge and getting back there,” he said.

He started to run through a series of reasons why van Rooyen would be better off using a 17-degree 3-hybrid. He reminded him of the beauty he hit with the same club at 14 just a few holes earlier and the one at the first hole on Friday that set up an eagle.

“Oh, hell yeah,” van Rooyen said with a glint in his eye.

“Clear and committed,” Gaugert said.

Then as he had done on every shot all day, van Rooyen thought of their college teammate at Minnesota, Jon Trasamar, who had texted them on Tuesday with the news that he had about six weeks to live due to stage 4 melanoma.

“Then I flushed it,” van Rooyen said.

“Be as good as you look,” Gaugert barked at the ball and it more than obliged.

It stopped 20 feet past the hole and van Rooyen removed any doubt by rolling in his third straight putt of that length for a birdie-birdie-eagle finish.

“There’s nothing quite like it in life,” Van Rooyen said of his clutch 3-hybrid to the 18th green. “Yeah, that shot will be with me forever.”

Van Rooyen stormed home in 8-under 28 at the course Tiger Woods designed and erased a two-stroke deficit with three holes to play to win the World Wide Technology Championship.

How did he pull off an improbable two-stroke victory over Matt Kuchar and Camilo Villegas? To Gaugert it was simply meant to be.

“That should be the headline of every news article that’s written because there’s no reason he should have won this golf tournament. There’s no way to describe it other than it was it was meant to be,” Gaugert said.

It was meant to be even after van Rooyen opened with a bogey on a par 5 after dumping his approach in the front bunker and failing to extricate himself on his first attempt.

“The start we got off to today made you want to puke,” Gaugert said.

But then van Rooyen rolled in a 35-foot birdie at the second and thought to himself, “this is a silly game so just keep playing.”

But by the seventh hole, van Rooyen turned to Gaugert in the fairway and said it was time to press. Gaugert, who remains a good enough player that he was a Monday qualifier for the 3M Open in July, talked him out of it and advised him to stay patient, “let it happen,” as he put it, and stay disciplined. Van Rooyen listened, agreeing it was too soon to hit the panic button.

“And then I sprayed (my next shot) right of the green. So it’s funny how that works. Hit a really good chip,” he said.

Meanwhile, Villegas made birdies on four of the first six holes and Kuchar reeled off five in his first 12 holes to assume the lead.

This was a big week for van Rooyen. The 33-year-old South African native entered the week ranked No. 131 in the FedEx Cup standings and his two-year exemption for winning the 2021 Barracuda Championship was expiring in a few weeks if he didn’t have a good finish. He suffered through a stretch of seven missed cuts in a row from early May to early June and in 27 previous starts on the season had more missed cuts (14) than he had made (13). He began working with instructor Sean Foley, who helped him more with the mental game than the golf swing during their hour-long conversations. Van Rooyen’s final-round 63 marked his 13th consecutive round of par or better. Gaugert went so far as to send Foley a text six weeks ago thanking him for his efforts.

Foley’s response speaks volumes: “He used to play to not get embarrassed, and it’s gonna take a little bit to let the predator out,” Gaugert recalled Foley wrote.

The predator came out on Sunday. Van Rooyen birdied four of the first five holes on the back nine and then came to the difficult par-4 15th, where one day earlier Kuchar had a five-stroke lead before making a quadruple-bogey 8 there.

Van Rooyen aimed his 9-iron about 10 yards right of the flag and tugged it five yards left of it. “It was a putrid shot,” Gaugert said. Yet it defied gravity and stayed on the fringe.

“I have no clue how other than our buddy Jon was with us,” Gaugert said. “Erik’s ball should have never ever stayed up there.”

“We both kind of looked at the sky and we were like, maybe it’s written in the stars,” van Rooyen said. “When that happened, I was like, ooh, we might have a chance.”

That wasn’t Gaugert’s only thought. He told van Rooyen that etiquette be damned, they needed to play their next shot before the ball rolled down the slope. Van Rooyen sheepishly asked Kuchar if he could play out of turn.

“He was very nervous to do so. And I go, ‘Ask him now.’ The wind was picking up, if the wind gives us any sort of gust his ball is going down,” Gaugert said.

They left the green with a par and then van Rooyen rolled in back-to-back 20-foot birdie putts to tie for the lead. On his ball, van Rooyen had written the initials “JT,” for Trasamar, the first person he met when he arrived from South Africa to attend Minnesota, his roommate of three years and his best man at his wedding nine years ago. Despite job security for next season being shaky at best coming into this week, van Rooyen and Gaugert had booked a flight on Saturday afternoon to fly home to Minnesota on Monday morning to go see their ill friend Tuesday. Depending on how the final round played out, they had a reservation to Bermuda that would arrive at 11pm on Wednesday and they would tee it up on Thursday without seeing the course in advance.

“We ain’t playing Bermuda now,” said Gaugert.

It was meant to be that the win will allow them to spend more precious time with JT.

After van Rooyen sank the winning eagle putt for a 72-hole aggregate of 27-under 261, he and Gaugert embraced in one of the longest bro-hugs ever on the 18th green. Van Rooyen said that Gaugert, usually the stoic one who keeps the more volatile van Rooyen in line and helps balance him out, simply cried. But Gaugert also had a memory flash through his head. During his senior season in 2013, their pal Trasamar earned Big Ten Golfer of the week honors after placing second at the Barnabas Health Intercollegiate. It included a career-low 66 in the second round.

“He beat me by a stroke with a back-nine 28, just like Erik,” Gaugert said.

It turned out Gaugert’s memory was off by a stroke. Trasamar had shot a back-nine 29, but that only made Gaugert smile.

“He just wanted to give Erik an extra stroke,” he joked.

Sometimes it’s just meant to be.

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Q&A: Ken Jowdy on hiring Tiger Woods to design Diamante courses, building Cabo’s Shadow Creek and playing thousands of rounds with Roger Clemens

A third course is under construction at Diamante Cabo San Lucas, and Woods is designing that one, too.

LOS CABOS, Mexico — In 2003, Ken Jowdy was driving to the airport on a Thursday afternoon when his broker called and said there was a piece of property he had to see. The owner was 89 years old and he’d turned down every offer anyone had ever made.

Jowdy’s broker was his first call and he said, “you are my first call. I said, ‘OK, I’ll be back on Tuesday.’ He said, ‘You don’t understand. If you don’t come right now, this property won’t be here on Tuesday,'” Jowdy recounted on Saturday as the third round of the World Wide Technology Championship was getting underway at El Cardonal at Diamante, one of two existing courses he built on the land with a third under construction.

“I turned my car around and met him at what essentially was a ranch. I hopped in his Jeep Liberty and we went flying around and within 30 minutes we had a deal.”

Now the golf members and homeowners include the likes of former baseball stars Roger Clemens and Larry Walker. “Isn’t this place awesome?” Jowdy said to Walker, attempting to lead the witness. But it wasn’t necessary as Walker’s affection for Diamante was palpable.

“I visited one time and purchased a house and I’m here half the year,” Walker said. “I’m not here because it’s a (lousy) place. The food, the weather, the people. That could be in a different order every day.”

Comfort stations in Cabo jumped the shark. This is how ‘The Godfather of comfort stations’ plans to reinvent them

Cabo is a place for comfort.

LOS CABOS, Mexico — One of the joys of playing golf at several of the courses that dot the southernmost tip of the Baja Peninsula are the outrageous comfort stations, which include all the snacks and candy and drinks that your heart desires.

Five years ago, I checked out Twin Dolphin, a course designed by Todd Eckenrode with Masters champion Fred Couples and the marketing guy told me that their “Red Door” comfort stations were designed to top anything that had come before it. They didn’t disappoint.

The one at the fifth hole is where Couples filmed an episode of Golf Channel’s Feherty show, a lavish setting that many assumed was Fred’s home. Its selection of sugar-laden treats would make Willy Wonka blush, and Couples, it turns out, is a candy addict. “I like the Snickers and Hershey Kisses, but I try to stay the hell out of there,” he says. “If I’m there seven days, it’s a losing proposition.”

The bar was stocked, too, and manned by a full-time attendant who made me a salty margarita and talked me into what he billed as the best tequila I’ll ever taste. Did I mention the fresh guacamole, fish tacos, and octopus ceviche? In case anyone could possibly be hungry or thirsty again, there’s a second Red Door between holes 12 and 13 and also accessible when moving from 15 to 16. You won’t need lunch or dinner. (Don’t skip the sliders!)

On Saturday, I bumped into Mike Abbott on the practice tee at El Cardonal at Diamante, the host course of the World Wide Technology Championship. Abbott,  who returned to Diamante to run the Legacy Club, a third course at the facility that is being touted as a members-only club and likely the future home of the tournament, was looking resplendent in pink. Abbott knows all about the comfort stations and when I mentioned how they had jumped the shark, he shook his head and said, “They’ve turned into Costco’s out there.”

“That was never the purpose of comfort stations,” he added. “It was to have a couple of unique items that were signature to that facility, some nuts and snacks and a little bit of candy and something to freshen your drink.”

Abbott should know. He’s considered the Godfather of the comfort station. As the vice president of operations of Discovery Land Company, where he oversaw all aspects of the development of courses such as Vaquero near Dallas, El Dorado in Los Cabos, Mexico, and Mirabel in Scottsdale, Arizona, Abbott introduced and perfected the comfort station with the intent of giving golfers a big surprise. At Diamante, that means tamales and tacos and black bean soup. He explained how he conceived the concept at Vaquero and Kukio, an oceanfront residential golf and beach club located in Kohala, Hawaii.

“We didn’t have any place to house a chef so we stuck them at the comfort station, better known as a bathroom. When I die, I figure I’m going to be known as the bathroom guy,” he said. “But there was no clubhouse when we started so we cooked off bunsen burners in the back and smokers. We sold a lot of real estate that way.”

Abbot spent several years at Diamante before using his vast experience in the luxury resort and private golf club industry to form Abbott Golf Management and partnering in the development of Blue Jack National near Houston, another course designed by Tiger Woods where the comfort stations are known for locally grown fruit and treats. But he promised Diamante’s developer, Ken Jowdy, that if a third course was built he’d come back and so here he is.

Cabo is ground zero for the comfort station competition between clubs of anything you can do, we can do better. Will the comfort stations at Legacy Club follow suit and top Twin Dolphin and others at their own game?

“We talked about it a bunch and said, ‘Let’s go the other way.’ Let’s make it very simple and have an old-school halfway house and just know that everyone on the golf course can get what they want when they want,” Jowdy said. “We’re not going to try to top everyone else.”

The problem with the comfort station is that some of them are so luxurious that you can’t help but stop and shove your favorite treats into your bag to get your money’s worth on the all-inclusive deal. It ends up slowing play. But with Legacy Club designed as a members-only course with a maximum of 250 members, Abbott said they envision an old-school halfway house.

“We’re going to change the profile again,” he said. “It’s going to have a creaky screen door and a greasy burger and all the great smells you associate with it.”

2023 World Wide Technology Championship Sunday tee times, how to watch

Everything you need to know for the final round of the World Wide Technology Championship.

It looked like Matt Kuchar was going to run away and hide in Mexico, but the 15th hole at El Cardonal at Diamante got him.

Kuchar had a six-shot lead with four holes to play during the third round of the 2023 World Wide Technology Championship before a quadruple bogey 8 on the par-4, shrinking his lead to two shots. Then a bogey on the next hole, followed by a birdie from Camilo Villegas, and his lead had vanished like that.

Heading into the final round, Kuchar is at 19 under and tied with Villegas for the lead. Erik van Rooyen sits third at 18 under.

El Cardonal ranks 26th on the Golfweek’s Best 2023: Top 50 courses in Mexico, Caribbean, Atlantic islands and Central America list. It’s one of 11 courses in Cabo on that list. It’s also the first golf course designed by Tiger Woods, opening in 2014.

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From tee times to TV and streaming info, here’s everything you need to know for the final round of the 2023 World Wide Technology Championship at El Cardonal at Diamante. All times listed are ET.

Sunday tee times

1st tee

Tee time Players
10:30 a.m.
James Hahn, Nick Hardy, Ryan Moore
10:41 a.m.
Thomas Detry, Ludvig Aberg, Martin Trainer
10:52 a.m.
Akshay Bhatia, Beau Hossler, Ben Griffin
11:03 a.m.
Taylor Pendrith, Brent Grant, Brandon Wu
11:14 a.m.
Taylor Montgomery, Cameron Percy, Chesson Hadley
11:25 a.m.
Andrew Putnam, Tano Goya, Cameron Champ
11:36 a.m.
Nate Lashley, Doug Ghim, Kevin Tway
11:47 a.m.
Jeffrey Kang, Austin Eckroat, Davis Thompson
11:58 a.m.
Ryan Palmer, Sam Ryder, Adam Long
12:09 p.m.
Carson Young, Kramer Hickok, Lucas Herbert
12:20 p.m.
Patton Kizzire, Scott Piercy, Michael Kim
12:31 p.m.
Mackenzie Hughes, Will Gordon, Justin Suh
12:42 p.m.
Camilo Villegas, Matt Kuchar, Erik van Rooyen

10th tee

Tee time Player
10:30 a.m.
Robby Shelton, Max McGreevy, Richy Werenski
10:41 a.m.
MJ Daffue, Luke List, Lanto Griffin
10:52 a.m.
Peter Malnati, Matti Schmid, Justin Lower
11:03 a.m.
Roberto Diaz, Nico Echavarria, Stephan Jaeger
11:14 a.m.
Chez Reavie, Austin Smotherman, Hayden Buckley
11:25 a.m.
Adam Svensson, Martin Laird, Austin Cook
11:36 a.m.
Vince Whaley, Chase Johnson, Brian Stuard
11:47 a.m.
Lucas Glover, Russell Knox, Kelly Kraft
11:58 a.m.
Sebastian Vazquez, Keith Mitchell, Jason Dufner
12:09 p.m.
K.H. Lee, Isidro Benitez, Paul Haley II
12:20 p.m.
Cameron Young, Ryan Armour
12:31 p.m.
J.J. Spaun, Troy Merritt

How to watch, listen

ESPN+ is the exclusive home of PGA Tour Live. There is no PGA Tour Live coverage of the 2023 World Wide Technology Championship.

Sunday, Nov. 5

Golf Channel/Peacock: 3-6 p.m.

Sirius XM: 1-6 p.m.

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Why is there a plaque in a bunker at Tiger’s Cabo course and where did it go during the World Wide Technology Championship?

“I told Tiger if you put your drive in the fairway, I can move it down the fairway as you get older.”

LOS CABOS, Mexico – When El Cardonal at Diamante was completed in 2014, developer Ken Jowdy didn’t let anyone hit a shot on the course until course architect Tiger Woods could do the honors.

“I told him wherever he hit the opening tee shot, we’re going to put a plaque,” Jowdy said on Saturday as the third round of the World Wide Technology Championship was getting under way.

Then he shared a funny story about how his friend, the Hall of Fame pitcher Roger Clemens, swears that every year the famed red seat amongst a sea of green ones in the right field bleachers at Fenway Park in Boston — Section 42, Row 37, Seat 21 — where a Ted Williams home run blast in 1946 supposedly landed gets a little longer as if the seat has been inching back over the years.

“I told Tiger if you put your drive in the fairway, I can move it down the fairway as you get older,” Jowdy joked.

There was only one problem with that plan: Tiger hit the ceremonial drive into a fairway bunker. That’s why there’s a plaque in the bunker on the first hole. But that plaque isn’t there during the World Wide Technology. It was still there for the pro-am on Wednesday but the PGA Tour requested the plaque be removed during the tournament to avoid a potential situation where a players needs relief and the lie after a drop is worse than it was before. Other times during the course of the year, they will remove a drain out of a bunker for the same reason, but a plaque is unique.

Note to Jowdy: Seems like a great opportunity to stick Tiger’s plaque ahead a few feet when it is returned to its post after the tournament is over.

A photo of the plaque in a bunker commemorating the first tee shot at El Cardonal by course designer Tiger Woods. (Todd Kelly/Golfweek)

Brandt Snedeker withdraws from 2023 World Wide Technology Championship

Sneds was tied for 27th after 36 holes.

After posting rounds of 66-70 around the Tiger Woods-designed El Cardonal at Diamante, Brandt Snedeker withdrew from the 2023 World Wide Technology Championship in Las Cabos, Mexico, due to a rib injury.

At the Memorial Tournament earlier this year, Snedeker returned from a 9-month break due to sternum surgery.

Sneds was tied for 27th after 36 holes south of the border as he was looking for his first top-40 finish since making his return to the PGA Tour.

The 9-time Tour winner has tied for 65th at the Sanderson Farms Championship and for 52 at the Shriners Children’s Open during the FedEx Cup Fall. He’s currently 211th in the fall standings.