2025 World Wide Technology Championship tee times, TV coverage, viewer's guide - FOGOLF

Headlining the field this week are a pair of U.S. Ryder Cup team members in J.J. Spaun and Ben Griffin. Both have competed at this event previously, Spaun finishing T-30 a year ago and Griffin posting back-to-back top-25s in his two starts. Joining them is the newest PGA Tour winner, Michael Brennan, fresh off his Bank of Utah Championship victory, and three others in the top 50 of the of the Official World Golf Ranking—Nick Taylor, Wyndham Clark and Max Greyserman.

Brennan won on a sponsor’s exemption in Utah, something Johnny Keefer hopes to duplicate this week in Mexico. The Korn Ferry Tour player of the year has been given a spot and hopes that a strong finish can push him into the top 50 in the OWGR before year’s end and hopefully secure spots in next year’s Masters, U.S. Open and Open Championship.

But as we mentioned at the outset, this event is as much for those hanging around the the top-100 bubble. Not surprisingly, Beau Hossler at No. 99 and David Lipsky at No. 101 are in the field. And for those trying to become part of the Aon Next 10, players ranked Nos. 51-60 through the FedEx Cup Fall will earn their way into two early-season 2026 Signature Events – the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and The Genesis Invitational. Rico Hoey moved from No. 91 to No. 61 in the standings at the Bank of Utah and is in the field this week. Kevin Yu was the lone player to move inside that No. 51-60 mark in Utah with a T-15 showing, jumping from No. 61 to No. 59. Meanwhile, Greyserman still tops the list at No. 51 and is playing this week to hold that spot.

Austin Eckroat returns as the defending champion. A year ago he claimed his second career PGA Tour title with a final-round 63—including 11 birdies—beating Justin Lower and Carson Young by one shot.

This week’s winner will receive 500 FedEx Cup points and a $1.08 million cut of the $6 million purse.

TV Schedule

Golf Channel will carry live coverage of the tournament Thursday through Sunday at 3-6 p.m. EST. The broadcast can also be viewer on the NBC Sports app.

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Previous Next Pause Play Save for later Private Diamante Golf Club: El Cardonal Cabo San Lucas, Baja Sur, Mexico

The PGA Tour debuted a new tournament venue last year, now serving as the host of the World Wide Technology Championship. El Cardonal usually plays backup to the Mexican resort’s other course, the Dunes, ranked 47th in the Golf Digest World’s 100 Greatest Courses. Though El Cardonal lacks the sensational seaside setting and prolific sand dunes that border the holes of the Dunes course (designed by Mark and Davis Love III, with associate Paul Cowley, in 2010), it has a notable caché of its own as the first course that Tiger Woods and his TGR Design studio built. Opened in 2014, El Cardonal sits in the desert uplands above the sister course with panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean and holes that run primarily north-south, meaning the prevailing coastal winds are typically crossing. Completed early in Woods’ architectural career, El Cardonal strikes chords that the 15-time major champion has continued to use in his subsequent designs at Bluejack National in Texas and Payne’s Valley at Big Cedar Lodge in Missouri (Beau Welling was Woods’ lead designer at all three projects). The common theme at each course is playability, as Woods generally gives golfers plenty of space off the tee to find different routes to the hole and forgiving short-grass areas to miss shots coming into the greens. Woods’ courses are far from the early Jack Nicklaus-style designs conceived with PGA Tour-player shot-making in mind. The generous fairways, many set diagonally to the tee shot, will entice drives to cut corners of sandy arroyos and fly bunkers. The greens are varied in size, shape and orientation—some are curved or heart-shaped, others long and narrow—with small contours and ripples that can provide challenging hole locations and multi-break lag putts, an underrated facet of the game where Woods excelled. Players who miss greens will have a variety of recovery options off the fairway-cut surrounds, though most may choose to hit a higher, spinning pitch off the sticky seaside paspalum grass. The cascading nature of the property, falling more than 200 feet from high to low, will generate exciting play. Seven holes run downhill, but these are usually longer yardages while the shorter par 4s play uphill. All the par 5s should be easily reachable for the pros, even the 601-yard uphill sixth, and players may have short irons into the pair that slide downhill. The final five holes should provide a spectacle, starting with a short par 5 going up and over an arroyo, a stout par 4 that’s likely to play into the wind and a wedge par 3 to a slender “island” green propped above desert. The scenic par-4 17th plays dramatically off the site’s highest point followed by another steeply downhill par-5 finishing hole. Similar in playability to the 18th at Kapalua’s Plantation course (site of the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii), it’s possible that long second shots that bound onto the putting surface off the contours short-right of the green will result in a potentially winning eagle putt. View Course Radio

PGA Tour Radio will broadcast live coverage of the tournament on SiriusXM Thursday and Friday from 12 noon to 6 p.m. and on Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 6 p.m.

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