Large issues are taking place this week on the World Huge Expertise Championship in Mexico.
El Cardonal at Diamante, located on the Southern finish of Baja California Sur, will host a PGA Tour occasion for the primary time. It’s going to additionally mark the primary occasion by which a tour occasion is staged on a Tiger Woods-designed golf course.
The 15-time main champion is in Mexico this week too, scouting the property and guaranteeing it lives as much as his normal for skilled play.
Opened in 2014, El Cardonal sits adjoining to the Pacific Ocean, offering breathtaking views for each gamers and followers. The course performs agency and quick, with the wind normally howling.
Assume hyperlinks golf however with hotter climate. The tropical local weather of Mexico is a stark departure from the situations typically seen in Nice Britain throughout The Open Championship.
“I arrange the golf technique to make golfers suppose and make decisions,” Woods mentioned, per the course’s web site.
“There are going to be alternative ways to play each gap. Angles of method are going to be crucial and can dictate the kind of photographs you need to take into account. I really like this sort of golf.”
The fairways are vast, and the greens are expansive, which ought to give the sector this week loads of creativeness.
Included within the discipline for this week’s World Huge Expertise Championship is PGA membership skilled Michael Block, who burst onto the scene at Oak Hill throughout the PGA Championship this previous Might.
Block’s surreal hole-in-one and his unbelievable up-and-down on the 18th gap throughout Sunday’s remaining spherical lit the golf world on hearth, producing lasting pictures for years to come back.
However the ‘Block Get together’ has continued nicely previous that tremendous Sunday.
He just lately received the Southern California Match Play Championship, which awarded him an exemption into the sector at El Cardonal this week.
Block will even compete within the Australian Open at the start of December.
Nonetheless, Block has competed in 5 PGA Tour occasions to this point in 2023. His solely made minimize got here at Oak Hill, as he most just lately missed the minimize on the RBC Canadian Open in June.
Maybe he can replicate the magic he found in Western New York on Tiger’s course with Woods watching him.
That may be fairly one thing, proper?
Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Enjoying By. You possibly can observe him on Twitter @jack_milko for extra golf protection. You’ll want to take a look at @_PlayingThrough too.
