OHL Classic at Mayakoba

OHL Classic at Mayakoba
Tournament information
Location Playa del Carmen,
Quintana Roo, Mexico
Established 2007
Course(s) El Camaleon Golf Club
Par 71
Length 6,987 yards (6,389 m)
Tour(s) PGA Tour
Format Stroke play
Prize fund $7.0 million
Month played November
Tournament record score
Aggregate 263 Harris English (2013)
263 Pat Perez (2016)
To par −21 as above
Current champion
United States Pat Perez
Playa del Carmen
Location in Mexico

The OHL Classic at Mayakoba is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour in Mexico, held on the Yucatán Peninsula at Playa del Carmen, south of Cancún. It debuted in February 2007 and was the first PGA Tour event in Mexico this century.

Originally an alternate event in late winter, the tournament was played the same week as the WGC Match Play event in Arizona. Mayakoba was part of the FedEx Cup, but only earned half the points of a regular event. The prize fund in 2007 was US$3.5 million (with a winner's share of $630,000),[1] making it the richest golf tournament in Mexico.[2]

Fred Funk, a winner four months earlier on the Champions Tour, took the inaugural event in a playoff over José Cóceres of Argentina.[1][3] Funk was 50 years, 257 days of age and became the oldest player to win a PGA Tour event in nearly 32 years;[4] Art Wall was about eleven months older when he won the Greater Milwaukee Open in July 1975.[5]

In 2013, the event was moved to mid-November to be part of the 2014 season as a primary event in the early part of the season, which began in October for the first time.[6] The tournament now offered full FedEx Cup points, a Masters invitation, and a large purse increase (over 60%, to $6 million). With the tour's new schedule, the Mayakoba event was not part of the abbreviated 2013 season.

The OHL Classic is allocated four additional sponsor exemptions designated for players of Spanish or Mexican heritage from Latin America, South America, Spain, or Mexico.[7]

Winners

Year Season Player Country Score To par Margin
of victory
Runner(s)-up Winner's
share ($)
Purse ($)
OHL Classic at Mayakoba
2016 2017 Pat Perez  United States 263 −21 2 strokes United States Gary Woodland 1,260,000 7,000,000
2015 2016 Graeme McDowell  Northern Ireland 266 −18 Playoff United States Jason Bohn
Scotland Russell Knox
1,116,000 6,200,000
2014 2015 Charley Hoffman  United States 267 −17 1 stroke United States Shawn Stefani 1,098,000 6,100,000
2013 2014 Harris English  United States 263 −21 4 strokes United States Brian Stuard 1,080,000 6,000,000
Mayakoba Golf Classic
2012 John Huh  United States 271 −13 Playoff Australia Robert Allenby 666,000 3,700,000
Mayakoba Golf Classic at Riviera Maya-Cancun
2011 Johnson Wagner  United States 267 −17 Playoff United States Spencer Levin 666,000 3,700,000
2010 Cameron Beckman  United States 269 −15 2 strokes United States Joe Durant
United States Brian Stuard
648,000 3,600,000
2009 Mark Wilson  United States 267 −13 2 strokes United States J. J. Henry 648,000 3,600,000
2008 Brian Gay  United States 264 −16 2 strokes United States Steve Marino 630,000 3,500,000
2007 Fred Funk  United States 266 −14 Playoff Argentina José Cóceres 630,000 3,500,000

Note: Green highlight indicates scoring records.

References

  1. 1 2 "Scoreboard: At Playa del Carmen, Mexico". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). February 26, 2007. p. D4.
  2. "Mayakoba Golf Classic".
  3. "50-year-old Funk wins at Mayakoba". Star-News. (Wilmington, North Carolina). Associated Press. February 26, 2007. p. 3C.
  4. "Oldest PGA Tour winners". Retrieved May 14, 2009.
  5. "Art Wall a winner at Milwaukee". Daytona Beach Morning Journal. (Florida). Associated Press. July 7, 1975. p. 1C.
  6. "2013–14 PGA Tour schedule (2013 tournaments)". PGA Tour. December 12, 2012. Retrieved May 14, 2013.
  7. "2015–16 PGA Tour Player Handbook & Tournament Regulations" (PDF). October 5, 2015.

Coordinates: 20°41′22″N 87°01′52″W / 20.6895°N 87.0312°W / 20.6895; -87.0312

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