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Starts: 7th November 2024
Course: El Cardonal at Diamante, Mexico
Par: 72
Length: 7,452 yards
2023 Champion: Erik Van Rooyen

2024 World Wide Technology Championship Tips

2024 World Wide Technology Championship Course Info

Designer: Tiger Woods
Course used since: 2023
Course type: Coastal 

Significant Info To Be Aware Of
This is the second time the course has hosted the World Wide Technology Championship. Influenced by the Southern California courses Woods grew up playing, the par-72, 7,450-yard layout features dramatic views of the Pacific Ocean and provides players with several shot options to navigate on each hole.

2024 World Wide Technology Championship Trends

With this course only being used for a second year, we have very little to go on by way of historical trends.  However, the following are common to the World Wide Technology Championship:

Nationality
Americans have dominated this event.  Since the tournament began in 2007, the only non-American winners were Graeme McDowell (2015), Viktor Hovland (2020 and 2021) and Erik Van Rooyen (2023). El Cardonal hosted for the first time last year so any previous course advantages players had at El Camaleon were negated.

World Ranking
The last nine winners have ranked 59-17-23-185-40-236-271-82-90-68 (most recent first).  Outsiders have won this event in the past but recent years have gone the way of higher ranked players.

2024 World Wide Technology Championship Stats Analysis

Driving Accuracy
Erik Van Rooyen and Camillo Villegas ranked 25th for Driving Accuracy but neither of the other two players who finished inside the top four ranked better than 25th.

Driving Distance
Justin Suh was the only one of the top four to rank inside the top 40 for Driving Distance last year.  Length off the tee isn't essential.

Greens in Regulation
The top four last year were all inside the top 13 for greens in regulation.  Accurate iron play is more important than driving prowess.

World Wide Technology Championship Course Quotes

“I set up the golf strategy to make golfers think and make choices,” Woods said on the course website. “There are going to be different ways to play every hole. Angles of approach are going to be very important and will dictate the type of shots you should consider. I love this kind of golf.” Tiger Woods

"There's a couple holes that have a lot of risk-reward. A couple par 5s, the back of the greens are serious trouble, so you've got -- if you have a good number, you can maybe hit it to the back flag and get a chance for eagle, but if not, you've got to play conservative and try to get up and down from the front of the green, so it adds a lot of risk-reward." Keith Mitchell

"This golf course, there's not really any rough, it's fairway and then hazard, or fairway and desert really. So the fairways are wider, but if you're too far offline, then you can't play. So a lot of golf courses they might have tight fairways, but you'll never lose your ball. You'll always find it, you might have a shot. Here, if you're not in the wider fairway, you're either dropping or hitting another tee shot. I think it's a fair balance of a wide fairway, but then very penal if you miss it." Keith Mitchell

"My first impressions is that it's not very tight off the tee, it's very wide, but if you miss, it's a severe penalty. You don't need to murder the ball. Playing it 290 off the tee, 300 off the tee is going to be just fine. And then you really have to think about where you leave the ball into the greens. There's one side that's obviously not OK. You kind of see a lot of parallels between the way Tiger plays golf and the way he designed this golf course. You have to think about it, play smart. Quintessential second-shot golf course and no short-siding." Maverick McNealy

"This course specifically is more desert golf, pretty big fairways and a lot of undulation around the greens. You can get some easy green complexes into like some bowls and then on other holes you can get some really big fall-offs and you're chipping 10, 15 feet above you. It's a variety of pretty much everything." Taylor Montgomery

"The golf course is really good. It's challenging in some spots where it's fairly wide off the tee, but then you get into the greens where you have some tricky runoffs and you definitely need to place your ball with your second shot." Ludvig Aberg

"The first thing I think of when it's a Tiger Woods design is that you kind of know that the fairways are going to be wide, which I love. Driving accuracy, I think it's been well documented, is the worst stat of my game, so having open fairways is really nice for me. I can kind of use my creativity to shape it into the holes and stuff. But my first impression of the golf course is I really like it. It's very hilly, no flat lies, a bunchof slopes that you can use to funnel into the greens. Anywhere from wedges on the par 4s to I hit a couple 4-irons today. The wind was a little opposite in the morning today and there were some really tough par 4s on the front, specifically 4 and 8 I think were playing really long. But there's plenty of scoring holes as well. I think Tiger was talking about how he just likes to make people think on the golf course and the back nine out here is just all strategy. There's very few drivers, a lot of placement. You need to have good angles or else these little cacti come into play and the way the arroyos and the desert is around the greens. It's a nice blend of kind of tactical, strategic golf and then also just putting yourself in the right spots, because I think there's going to be some really low scores out here." Sahith Theegala

2024 World Wide Technology Championship Tips