Ryan Noonan
4 years ago
A surprisingly strong field heads to Playa del Carmen, Mexico, for this year’s World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba at El Camaleon Golf Club.
El Camaleon is one of the Tour’s shortest courses, and the scorecard shows a Par-71 track that can be stretched to 6,987 yards. The jungles and mangrove wetlands protect most holes from huge wind gusts, even though I’d still consider it a coastal course. Still, it plays slightly shorter than the scorecard indicates. A quick glance at the winning scores in past years shows that it’s not a difficult course to score on, with the winner routinely finishing at or around 20-under-par. These Paspalum greens are generous and typically raise the baseline putting performance for even the Tour’s bottom-tier putters. This is one of the few courses on the PGA Tour regular rotation that truly chokes down the advantage of distance compared to the average course, which brings a lot of the field into play.