2021 World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba: PGA Tour Betting Odds
The newly named World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba sees Justin Thomas as the favourite to win on the golf odds.
Just like at last week’s Bermuda Championship, many top players will skip this week because of a smaller purse and the COVID traveling issues (although it’s a much better field than at Bermuda). The average Joe PGA Tour player will go anywhere because he needs the money/points to keep his Tour card, make a living, etc.
The former Mayakoba Golf Classic began in 2007 as a late-winter alternate-field tournament but became a full-fledged PGA Tour event and moved to the fall in 2013. World Wide Technology, a billion-dollar technology solutions provider, took over as the main sponsor in July and will remain so through 2027.
El Camaleon Golf Club in Playa del Carmen on the Mayan Riviera is the host course, a par 71 at around 7,020 yards. Designed by World Golf Hall of Famer Greg Norman, it traverses mangrove jungles, limestone canals and an oceanfront stretch. There’s a naturally formed pit with limestone walls on the par-5 seventh hole. It’s technically considered a water hazard. It likely will take at least 20 under to win.
Americans have won this tournament every year but two. Norway’s Viktor Hovland won it last year at 20-under 264, one shot up on American Aaron Wise. Hovland, who was two shots out of the lead entering Sunday, drained a 10-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole.
Wise, a former NCAA individual champion, was brilliant in the final round with a 63 and was waiting in the clubhouse for Hovland to finish. He became the first player in this tournament to birdie the 72nd hole to win by one shot. Interestingly, Hovland’s first PGA Tour start as a 21-year-old amateur also was in this event and he missed the cut.
Only once in the tournament’s history has a winner prevailed at Mayakoba by more than two shots. No player from Mexico has won this tournament yet. Carlos Ortiz was a co-runner-up in 2019 to Brendon Todd.
World Wide Technology Championship Golf Betting Odds
Justin Thomas is the +1000 favourite and is the highest-ranked player in the world in the field at No. 7. He played the event last year and was T12. Viktor Hovland is +1400 to repeat with Tony Finau at +2200. In two PGA starts this season, Hovland is T44 and T18. Finau was T8 here last year and also has a T7 in his career at the Mayakoba.
Aussie Lucas Herbert got his first PGA Tour win Sunday at the Bermuda Championship and is +5500 this week. He also won the Irish Open back in July on the European Tour. It’s his first time in this field. Patrick Reed was one of two runners-up in Bermuda and is +2700.
No Canadian has won here or finished runner-up. Last year, Corey Conners was T17 at 13 under. Michael Gligic, Drew Nesbitt, Roger Sloan and Adam Hadwin missed the cut. Taylor Pendrith is +8000 this week. He led after the second and third rounds in Bermuda but shot a final-round 5 over par to finish a career-best T5. Trips to Bermuda and Mexico are basically working honeymoons for Pendrith as he has new bride Megan with him. It’s his first time in this tournament.
Hadwin is +10000 and he has two Top 10s here. Adam Svensson is +21000 with Sloan also +21000 as well as Nick Taylor. Svensson was T22 in Bermuda, Hadwin T46 and Taylor missed the cut.
World Wide Technology Championship Golf Predictions
Take Thomas and former champion Brendon Todd for Top 10s but the best value to win is Adam Long at +10000. He was T3 last year and T2 the year before.