The PGA Tour heads to Mexico this week for the second edition of the World Wide Technology Championship at El Cardonal at Diamante, the first Tiger Woods-designed course to host a PGA Tour event.

El Cardonal fits into the “resort course that’s too wide to test professional golfers without wind” category – a description I don’t mean as criticism. Courses like Kapalua, which I hold in high regard, also fall into this category. At last year’s World Wide Technology Championship, Adam Long hit 56/56 fairways (100% – ranked first in the field) and 56/72 greens (78% – ranked T-66 in the field), an indication of how easy it is for a pro golfer to find both the fairways and the greens at this golf course. With minimal wind in the forecast again this year, expect low scores.

Beyond its scenic appeal, the World Wide Technology Championship offers something increasingly rare on the PGA Tour: golf with stakes. For those unfamiliar with the intricacies of the FedEx Cup Fall, there are two key cutoffs to track in the standings: the top 60 and the top 125. Positions 1-50 were locked in after the FedEx Cup Playoffs, but at the end of the fall, players who finish between 51 and 60 get into the first two Signature Events after The Sentry, which are the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and The Genesis Invitational. With just three weeks remaining in the FedEx Cup Fall, here are some of the players jockeying for spots in the top 60:

58. Justin Rose
59. Kevin Yu
60. Ben Griffin
61. Jake Knapp
62. Min Woo Lee
63. Lucas Glover

Players who finish the fall outside the top 125 will not have full status on the PGA Tour in 2025, a particularly tenuous position considering the expected changes coming to the PGA Tour in 2026. Here are some of the players hovering around the top-125 mark:

123. Hayden Springer
124. Joel Dahmen
125. Matt Wallace*
126. Joe Highsmith
127. Kevin Tway
128. Alejandro Tosti

One other dynamic to note this week: the current professional golf schedule continues to impose conflicts on the global player. For example, Justin Rose, Min Woo Lee, and Matt Wallace are all set to tee it up in Abu Dhabi on the DP World Tour this week, despite the ramifications to their PGA Tour standing, an especially crucial decision in Wallace’s case. In a perfect world, global players would not need to make career-altering trade-offs when deciding which tournaments to play. But alas, we do not live in a perfect world.

* Editor’s note: Matt Wallace won the 2023 Corales Puntacana Championship which carries a two-year exemption that will end after the 2025 season.

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