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Starts: 17th April 2025
Course: Corales GC, Dominican Republic
Par: 72
Length: 7,670 yards
2024 Champion: Billy Horschel

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2025 Corales Puntacana Championship Course Info

Designer: Fazio
Used Since: 2018
Fairways: Wide
Rough: Bermuda (2 inch)
Greens: Paspalum (11.5 stimp)
Water Hazards: On 6 holes
Par 5's: 4th, 7th, 12th and 14th
Premium on: Ability to deal with wind

2025 Corales Puntacana Championship Trends

Winning Score
Five of the seven PGA Tour events have been won with a score between 17 and 19 under par. Joel Dahmen won in 2021 with a score of twelve under par in a particularly windy week and Billy Horschel won with a score of 21 under par on a week with less breeze.

Course Form
The past three winners, Billy Horschel, Matt Wallace and Chad Ramey, won on their event debuts. Joel Dahmen had posted top 20 finishes in 2019 and 2018 when winning in 2020. The three champions before Dahmen had all played at Puntacana prior to their win but all three missed the cut the year immediately before their win. Course form is preferred but definitely not essential.

Recent Form
Billy Horschel arrived with three top 12 finishes in his five previous starts on the PGA Tour. Matt Wallace triumphed in 2023 having finished 7th at the Valspar Championship the week before. However, none of the last five champions before him had recorded a top 30 finish in their last start prior to their win. Joel Dahmen, Graeme McDowell and Brice Garnett had all failed to record a top 10 that year prior to winning.

World Ranking
The world ranking of the past seven champions has been 84-175-203-79-341-257-211.

Nationality
In the six years this event has been played on the PGA Tour, five of the winners have been American.

Age
The age of the winners has been 37, 32, 29, 33, 32, 39 and 34. Those players with a bit more experience are preferred.

PGA Tour wins
Four of the seven winners of this event were winning on the PGA Tour for the first time.

2025 Corales Puntacana Championship Stats Analysis

Driving Distance
The last six winners have ranked 15-80-25-20-78-76. Distance off the tee isn't essential.

Driving Accuracy
The last seven winners have ranked 8-31-19-67-21-51-28. Accuracy slightly preferred over distance.

Greens In Regulation
The last seven winners have ranked 24-11-27-14-40-16-30.

Scrambling
The last six winners have ranked 17-4-4-29-65-16. An abillity to make par when missingthe green in windy conditions is advantageous.

Putts Per GIR
The last six winners have ranked 2-12-4-8-1-2. A hot putter is essential.

2025 Corales Puntacana Championship In Play Advice

Tough Holes
The 11th, 5th and 2nd play as the hardest but the wind direction and strength will often determine which holes are hardest.

Birdie Holes
The four par 5s rank as four of the five easiest holes. The par 4 3rd hole ranks as amongst the easiest also.

Closing Stretch
16-18 are known as The Devil's Elbow and play slightly over par.

Fast or Slow Start
2020 and 2018 champions, Hudson Swafford and Brice Garnett, both led after the opening round. Winner in 2022, Chad Ramey, was four shots behind whilst 2021 and 2023 champions, Joel Dahmen and Matt Wallace, were one shot off the pace after round one. History suggests it is important to get off to a fast start but Billy Horschel was four shots back last year after round one.

Leaders after round three have a reasonable record here. Both McDowell and Garnett converted from in front and Dominic Bozzelli won when joint leader in 2016 on the web.com Tour (now Korn Ferry Tour). Chad Ramey won from two behind in 2022. Matt Wallace won from from one shot back in 2023 whilst Horschel was three shots through 54 holes last year.

Six of the last seven course winners have been inside the top 10 at halfway. Billy Horschel was 12th at halfway last year.