2021 World Wild Technology Championship at Mayakoba: Top 10 power rankings

The 2021-22 PGA Tour season continues on with another international event.

We’re at El Camaleon Golf Club in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico, for the World Wide Technology Championship.

The event was established in 2007 and has been held annually at El Camaleon. The Greg Norman design is a 6,987-yard par-71. It’s a short course by PGA Tour standards that puts a premium on accuracy off the tee. Trees and thick rough are ready to snatch up loose drives.

The course is fairly gettable if your playing from the fairway, but lost balls are common, too.

The green complexes are fairly large, soft and composed of paspalum grass, a fairly uncommon surface that is starting to become more popular. Kiawah Island for the 2021 PGA Championship is a notable venue that featured it.

The World Wide Technology Championship, long known as the Mayakoba Golf Classic, was an alternate field event until 2013 when it upgraded to a standard event with a larger purse, full FedEx Cup points, etc.

The winning score has nestled between 18- and 22-under-par every year since 2013. The 22-under-total by Matt Kuchar in 2018 is the tournament record.

This event tends to attract weaker than average fields, but this year’s edition projects to be its best in history with approximately 52 Official World Golf Ranking points to the winner, per @VC606 on Twitter.

There’s unfortunately no Shotlink data at this event, but there’s at least a decade-plus of course history to work from.

No rain is in the forecast with temperatures in the upper 60s to upper 80s. It looks like winds could creep into double-digit miles per hour, but nothing like the gusts we saw last week in Bermuda.

Let’s get to it. Here are the top 10 power rankings south of the border: