The PGA Tour stays in Mexico for a second consecutive week, moving south from Puerto Vallarta to Los Cabos for the World Wide Technology Championship. Defending champion Ben Griffin returns to the World Wide Technology Championship looking to become the first player to successfully defend his title since Viktor Hovland won back-to-back editions in 2020 and 2021. The tournament runs November 5-8 at El Cardonal at Diamante, with a $6 million purse and 500 FedExCup points on the line as the Fall Series enters its sixth of eight events.
The tournament is played at El Cardonal at Diamante in Los Cabos, Mexico. Tiger Woods designed El Cardonal, his first course in Mexico. The layout favors aggressive play in ways that Tiger Woods courses tend to reward. The fairways are wide and the greens generous, so in calm conditions the course usually gives up low scores, and the wind off the ocean is often the main defence. The resort-style setup has no rough.
El Cardonal surrendered a tournament record 29 under par to Ben Griffin last November, and with fairways that average roughly 60 yards wide and no rough to speak of, red numbers are on the menu again. El Cardonal at Diamante is an 18-hole course playing to a par of 72 and stretching 7,452 yards from the championship tees. The course features 10 par 4s, four par 5s and four par 3s. The 3-putt rate at El Cardonal has been 3.94% which makes it the third-most difficult non-major course for that metric. Decision-making off the tee matters when fairways offer options, and approaches demand precision on large, undulating greens where proximity separates contenders from the rest.
Players to watch
Ryan Gerard (USA, world No. 28) is the top-ranked player and finished third at the TOUR Championship. Gerard has eight top-10s in 27 starts this season and finished third in his first Tour Championship appearance. Six of his last seven Tour starts have produced top-25 finishes, most recently a tie for fourth at the Baycurrent Classic. His consistency through the fall positions him as the betting favorite despite never having won at El Cardonal.
Griffin arrives in solid form after finishing T4 at last week's Mexico Open. Last year, he set an event scoring record here at 29-under 259, racking up 30 birdies and an eagle against just three bogeys. He finished T4 last week at the VidantaWorld Mexico Open in Vallarta, carding four straight rounds of 67 or better, and generally thrives on paspalum grass. Back-to-back weeks in Mexico on paspalum surfaces plays to Griffin's strengths.
Jackson Koivun, the reigning Haskins Award winner, brings youth and momentum to a field that trends younger and hungrier than most regular Tour events. Keith Mitchell (OWGR 60) offers veteran experience in the top tier of the field, while Harry Hall (OWGR 73) has shown the scoring ability that thrives on birdie-fest setups where putting determines separation.
Pierceson Coody kept his card mistake-free over the final 27 holes at the Norman Course in Vallarta where he finished T-6. Players carrying form from last week's Mexico Open hold an edge in course conditions and climate adjustment heading into El Cardonal.
Pool picks strategy
Wide fairways and generous greens create a scoring environment where anyone catching fire with the putter can contend. Look beyond top-tier names to the tier of players ranked 60-100 in the world who arrive with recent form. These fall events reward the hot hand more than pedigree, and El Cardonal's lack of rough removes the penalty for slight misses that would derail rounds on tighter layouts. Stuck between players? Our player comparison tool uses real PGA Tour strokes-gained data and weights each category by what this course rewards, then names the pick with a probability score.
The sixth event of the FedExCup Fall brings urgency for players chasing status for 2027. With only the top 100 in points earning full exemption, expect aggressive play from those on the bubble who need a big week in Los Cabos. The conditions favor scoring, the stakes are high, and the field is wide open.
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