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Mayakoba (El Camaleon Golf Club), Quintana Roo, Mexico
Course Par Value: 70
Course Yardage: 7,060
The El Camaleon Golf Club is a new Greg
Norman-designed course to the PGA Tour schedule, hosting the first ever running of the Mayakoba Classic at Riviera Maya in February 2007 - the first PGA Tour event played in Mexico. The course bends through three distinct landscapes - tropical jungle, dense mangroves, and oceanfront stretches of sand with holes bisected by massive limestone canals.
The Mayakoba Classic was an alternate event, played the same week as the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, for players outside of the world’s top-64. Like other alternate events, it only counts for half points towards the FedEx Cup.
Golf Betting Pro Notes: The course is relatively short at just over 7,000 yards, so big hitters have less of an advantage. The winner in 2007 was Fred Funk, one of the Tour’s shortest (but most accurate) hitters.
