At any other time of the year, a trip to Cabo San Lucas, might feel like a working vacation for PGA Tour pros. But coming with just three weeks remaining in the FedEx Cup Fall series, thus being one of the last opportunities to make sure your tour card is locked down for 2026, playing in the World Wide Technology Championship carries with it a little more stress than might otherwise be the case.
Indeed, you’ll hear a lot about “bubble boys” if you’re tuning into any of the action at El Cardonal at Diamante Cabo San Lucas, the first Tiger Woods-designed course to host a tour event. Not surprisingly, Beau Hossler at No. 99 and David Lipsky at No. 101 are in the field. (No. 100, Max Homa, is missing but he knows he’s got full tour status for a few years to come.)
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Additionally, there are several players trying to become part of the Aon Next 10, players ranked Nos. 51-60 through the FedEx Cup Fall who earn spots into two early-season 2026 Signature Events. 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, Max Greyserman still tops the list at No. 51 and is playing this week to hold that spot.
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While many players are focused on FedEx Cup points, there is a nice sum of money on the line as well. The overall purse is $6 million, with the winner of the event earning a first-place prize money payout of $1.08 million for the victory.
Here is a breakdown of the prize money payout for each golfer who makes the cut this week. Come back shortly after the finish of the event, and we’ll update this with makes and individual paydays.
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The seventh hole at the El Cardonal course at Diamante Cabo San Lucas, designed by Tiger Woods.
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The fifth hole at El Cardonal.
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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
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Win: $1,080,000
2: $654,000
3: $414,000
4: $294,000
5: $246,000
6: $217,500
7: $202,500
8: $187,500
9: $175,500
10: $163,500
11: $151,500
12: $139,500
13: $127,500
14: $115,500
15: $109,500
16: $103,500
17: $97,500
18: $91,500
19: $85,500
20: $79,500
21: $73,500
22: $67,500
23: $62,700
24: $57,900
25: $53,100
26: $48,300
27: $46,500
28: $44,700
29: $42,900
30: $41,100
31: $39,300
32: $37,500
33: $35,700
34: $34,200
35: $32,700
36: $31,200
37: $29,700
38: $28,500
39: $27,300
40: $26,100
41: $24,900
42: $23,700
43: $22,500
44: $21,300
45: $20,100
46: $18,900
47: $17,700
48: $16,740
49: $15,900
50: $15,420
51: $15,060
52: $14,700
53: $14,460
54: $14,220
55: $14,100
56: $13,980
57: $13,860
58: $13,740
59: $13,620
60: $13,500
61: $13,380
62: $13,260
63: $13,140
64: $13,020
65: $12,900
