Apr 27th, 2023 Article
2023 Mexico Open: All you need to know
World No. 1 and FedExCup leader Jon Rahm returns to the Mexico Open at Vidanta after winning the event in 2022.
World No. 1 and FedExCup leader Jon Rahm returns to the Mexico Open at Vidanta after winning the event in 2022.
He has been saying for a while now that he needs to get off to better starts in events and in Mexico yesterday Rory McIlroy delivered. The World Number One soared into a two-stroke first round lead at the WGC-Mexico Championship to continue an excellent run of form of late with a six-under-par 65 at Chapultepec Golf Club.
It's the WGC Mexico Championships this week, and the Tour is having to make a big detour from it's usual Florida swing now that Trump's Doral is off the rota. So the PGA hired a charter flight to get the players there!
Tony Finau wins his sixth PGA TOUR title and fourth in his last 18 starts, earning multiple victories in back-to-back seasons for the first time in his career.
World number two Jon Rahm picked up his first since his triumph at the U.S. Open last June with a win at the Mexico Open. Rahm went wire-to-wire but it was hardly plain sailing in the final round for the Spaniard. Rahm had salvage par on the par five 18th to finish on seventeen-under for a one shot victory. "Today was a battle," Rahm said. "But I got it done."
Sandia Resort Golf Course, New Mexico 18th hole Par 4 505 yards
2010 US Open winner Graeme McDowell posted an excellent round of 63 to take a 12 under, one shot, lead on day two of the OHL Classic at Playa Del Carmen, Mexico.
Quivira Golf Club, The Baja Peninsula, Mexico
Matt Kuchar gets his second win of the season in Hawaii but has had to defend himself this week over allegatons that he paid his caddie just $3,000.00 after winnning the Mayakoba Golf Classic in Mexico last November.
On Sunday, Viktor Hovland defended his title at the Mayakoba Championship in Mexico to claim his third PGA Tour title. The 24-year-old Norwegian shot a final-round four-under-par 67 at El Camaleon Golf Course to set a tournament record twenty-three-under-par total.
Five years. Can you believe it? Five years, but now Lefty (our tip for this year's US Open) is back in the winner's circle after beating Justin Thomas in a playoff to win the WGC-Mexico Championship.
Dustin Johnson held off the challenges of Rory McIlroy and Ian Poulter to wn the WGC in Mexico.