2025 World Wide Technology Championship Odds & Betting Preview: Early Bets & Picks, Including Rico Hoey
After a brief one-week hiatus, the PGA Tour returns to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, for continued FedEx Fall action. The 2025 World Wide Technology Championship is back for its third stint at El Cardonal at Diamante, moving on from its previous home at Mayakoba. Let’s run through key course info and odds for the 2025 World Wide Technology Championship.
Designed by Tiger Woods in 2014, El Cardonal is anything but the test you might expect from the game’s greatest competitor. With oversized fairways and greens and negligible rough throughout the property, this resort course was designed to produce birdies in bunches.
We’ve seen PGA Tour players feast on this layout over the first two years, and should expect the birdie barrage to continue this week. I am a perfect 2/2 in selecting outright winners at El Cardonal thus far, and will look to make it a trifecta this week. Once again, we should expect those who thrive in the easiest of scoring conditions, and the hottest iron players and putters to separate this week.
Now, let’s get into the key facts and info about El Cardonal at Diamante before betting on World Wide Technology Championship odds. Be sure to lock in the best sportsbook promo codes from golf betting sites this week.
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World Wide Technology Championship Golf Odds: Field At A Glance
The Fall Swing is not known to attract many household names, so expectations should be kept in check for the star power coming to Cabo San Lucas. Still, the 2025 World Wide Technology Championship could deliver some compelling storylines with trending up-and-coming rookies and veterans searching for a spark.
The Ryder Cup rookie duo, J.J. Spaun and Ben Griffin, headline as the expected favorites in the field this week. A total of 13 OWGR top-75 players are set to tee it up this week, with Max Greyserman, Wyndham Clark, Nick Taylor, Si Woo Kim, and Michael Thorbjornsen serving as the headliners.
Austin Eckroat is your defending champ at the World Wide Technology Championship, narrowly edging past Justin Lower and Carson Young to win by one stroke. Erik van Rooyen, the inaugural champion at El Cardonal, returns in this week’s field as well.
They’ll be joined by Matt Kuchar and Patton Kizzire as past World Wide Technology champions back from previous years at Mayakoba.
Introduction To El Cardonal At Diamante
Designed by Tiger Woods in 2014 with aid from Davis Love, El Cardonal is a resort course made for the casual golfer. While the champion’s tees stretch back to 7,452 yards, that is hardly a challenge for the modern PGA Tour pro. Look no further than Erik van Rooyen’s winning mark of -27 at the 2023 World Wide Technology Championship.
Situated on the West Coast of Mexico in Cabo San Lucas, El Cardonal’s best defense is likely its exposure to coastal winds. Unfortunately, wind has not been a determining factor at this event over its first two years, rendering it virtually defenseless.
How It Breaks Down
If coastal winds do not intervene, El Cardonal sets up as the easiest venue on the PGA Tour schedule. Standing at 7,452 yards as a par-72, El Cardonal is not prohibitively long. Over its first two years hosting, we’ve seen as many plodders (Matt Kuchar, Camilo Villegas, Andrew Putnam) as we have bombers (Erik van Rooyen, Ryan Palmer, Ludvig Aberg) atop the leaderboard. With gargantuan fairways and negligible rough on the property, skilled fairway finders get very little bonus.
The Paspalum greens at El Cardonal are also oversized but feature some tight tabletop runoffs similar to the greenside complexes at Kapalua, Corales, and PGA National. From a short-game perspective, these may serve as useful comps for the shot-making required at El Cardonal.
Still, with oversized fairways and greens and a winning score projected beyond 25 under par, players will not be asked to scramble too often on these grounds. Instead, the straightforward resort layout will reward in-form players with proven results in easy-scoring conditions who can spike with their irons and putt on Paspalum greens.
El Cardonal At Diamante Course Specs
- Yards: 7,452
- Par: 72 (4x 3s / 10x 4s / 4x 5s)
- Greens: Paspalum
- Architect: Tiger Woods
- Comp courses: TPC Craig Ranch, Vidanta Vallarta, Port Royal, Grand Reserve, Corales, Country Club of Jackson, Silverado Resort, TPC River Highlands, Keene Trace
- Past winners at El Cardonal: Austin Eckroat -23 (’24), Erik van Rooyen -27 (’23)
Course History And Course Comps
While the World Wide Technology Championship has been a fixture on the PGA Tour schedule for decades, its previous host — El Camaleon at Mayakoba — does not serve as the best indicator for future success. Though both courses are Paspalum-based on resorts in Mexico, El Camaleon is an extremely claustrophobic course that emphasizes the importance of driving accuracy first and foremost. With El Cardonal offering much more forgiving fairways, I’ll look past event history when handicapping this week’s event.
Looking at performance in the first two years at El Cardonal, the top-10 players in this field in terms of course history are: Carson Young, Austin Eckroat, Max Greyserman, Justin Lower, Joe Highsmith, Matt Kuchar, Andrew Putnam, Nico Echavarria, Garrick Higgo, and Doug Ghim.
Course Comps
In the absence of a long-term course history to model, weeks like these require leaning on the right comp courses. With El Cardonal at Diamante, many styles of play should translate well. However, easy scoring conditions, Paspalum greens, and forgiving landing areas off the tee are the most pertinent course characteristics I’m looking for.
Grand Reserve and Vidanta Vallarta stand out as the two most obvious starting points to reference for the comp course history. Both are similar resort-style courses with generous fairways and greens. Both produce ample birdie opportunities when the winds are down.
Looking beyond paspalum resorts, Keene Trace, Country Club of Jackson, and TPC Craig Ranch are also known to produce easy scoring conditions and have opened up low scoring for both plodders and bombers alike. Based on profiling for pure birdie-makers, I also like Port Royal, Silverado Resort, and TPC River Highlands as a measure for players who can stockpile birdies in easy conditions.
Combine performance across this list, and the top 10 players in comp course history here are Ben Griffin, Justin Lower, Austin Eckroat, Seamus Power, Eric Cole, Patrick Rodgers, Matt Kuchar, Steven Fisk, Vincent Whaley, and Mark Hubbard.
Key Stats To Consider For World Wide Technology Championship Golf Odds
- SG: APP / SG: Ball Striking
- Good Drives Gained
- Scrambling Gained
- Birdies or Better Gained
- Par-5 Scoring
- SG: P (L36, Paspalum)
- Course & Comp Course History
To keep it simple, the ideal player for this week should rank above average in Comp Course History, SG: APP, SG: Putting, and Birdies or Better Gained. Nine players fit that criteria: Ben Griffin, Mark Hubbard, Emiliano Grillo, J.J. Spaun, Vince Whaley, Michael Thorbjornsen, Kevin Yu, Patrick Fishburn, and Keith Mitchell.
Player Spotlight: Rico Hoey ()
As the pride of Puerto Rico, Rico Hoey should be no stranger to coastal resort golf. And in this Fall Swing stretch of the season, which carries so many question marks about the field’s current form and motivations, it’s Hoey who seems to be the most in control at the moment. He’ll travel to Cabo in the midst of a stretch that includes three top-10 finishes over his first four starts of the Fall Swing.
Hoey profiles well for a generous layout like El Cardonal. He is a skilled long driver and the No. 1 player in the field in terms of SG: Approach by a considerable margin. A simple formula of Comp Course History, SG: APP, and Birdies or Better Gained is the basis of what I’m looking for when refining my player pool this week. Hoey happens to rank in the top 10 in each category.
Ranking No. 13 overall in my model this week, El Cardonal caters perfectly to Hoey’s strengths. He’ll look to build on the runner-up finish he posted at the Bank of Utah Championship in his latest start, with lofty expectations in Mexico as he chases his first career PGA TOUR win.
2025 World Wide Technology Championship: Player Pool And Model Results
With all the course-fit profiles in mind, I’m leaning early toward the below player pool. Naturally, I’m also looking their way in the PGA Tour odds. I’ve broken the list down by projected pricing/odds tier for DraftKings.
Model Breakdown
In my model, I’m emphasizing SG: APP, Comp Course History, Birdies or Better Gained, and SG: Putting, followed by a more balanced mix of Scrambling Gained, SG: TOT (L16), and Par-5 Scoring.
Model Favorites
To little surprise, it’s Ben Griffin, the highest-ranked OWGR player in the field this week, who claims the No. 1 spot in my model this week. Griffin is set to make his first start since the Ryder Cup, and is a surprise showing in the Fall Swing considering his guaranteed status for the upcoming PGA Tour season. He will be one of the top favorites at the WWT Championship.
After Griffin, the rest of my model’s top 10 features Garrick Higgo, Mark Hubbard, Matt Kuchar, Emiliano Grillo, J.J. Spaun, Vince Whaley, Michael Thorbjornsen, Kevin Yu, and Nico Echavarria.
When PGA Tour odds open for the World Wide Technology Championship, I’ll look to hedge my exposure across a fairly long card, understanding the randomness that comes with a putting contest like this. Depending on where the World Wide Technology Championship odds ultimately fall, I’ll have my eye on players like Max Greyserman, Rico Hoey, and Mackenzie Hughes. Check back in later this week for more updates, and best of luck navigating the World Wide Technology Championship odds!
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