WGC-Mexico Championship Power Rankings: Top ten at Chapultepec

The WGC-Mexico Championship is a star-studded break from the PGA Tour’s Florida Swing. Who will come out on top in the second WGC event of the season?

After last week’s slugfest at the Honda Classic, we’re off to Club de Golf Chapultepec in Naucalpan, Mexico, near Mexico City, for the WGC-Mexico Championship.

The first of four World Golf Championships this year takes us to a 7,330-yard par-71 that plays much shorter due to the course’s perch at 7,870 feet above sea level.

While bomber Dustin Johnson won the inaugural WGC-Mexico Championship in 2017, this course appears to set up well for a variety of players. Given the altitude and tree-lined fairways, there’s a place for accuracy.

By the same token, playing from the rough isn’t round-killing. Johnson, Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas, Rory McIlroy and Phil Mickelson all finished in the top-10 of the leaderboard while outside the top 50 in driving accuracy.

Chapultepec is similar to Riviera Country Club, site of the Genesis Open two weeks ago, in that the fairways and rough are the sticky kikuya grass and the greens are poa annua common on the west coast.

There’s not much course history to go off when picking favorites this week, so I’m keeping an attentive eye on who fared well at the Genesis.

A few big names are sitting this one out; Hideki Matsuyama, Henrik Stenson, Rory McIlroy and Jason Day for rest, Tiger Woods due to ineligibility. Otherwise, a star-studded field has their passports at the ready for this week.

We’re all probably craving for the Masters at this point, but this isn’t a bad appetizer. Let’s take a look at the players who will rise to the top of this elite field.