World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba R1

Mayakoba Championship 2021 R1
November 04-07
El Camaleon Golf Club, Riviera Maya, Mexico
$7,200,000
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes

Matthew Wolff opened with a bogey-free 61, tying his career-low score on the PGA Tour and setting a new course record, to take the opening lead in the World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba.

Mayakoba Championship 2021 R1

“As soon as I finished the round, my caddie said to me, he goes,”You know, I’ve been caddying for you for quite a few rounds and that was not the one that I thought was going to be the lowest.”

“It was very steady, birdies kind of came evenly throughout the round, didn’t really make any mistakes. I think my game plan coming into the week was just really keeping the ball in play off the tee. I feel like when you start taking clubs that you’re trying to push it up or, you know, get a little farther up there, that’s when stuff narrows in. I think the main thing about how you play well out here is just being comfortable. Every single shot I was comfortable over, I was committed to. Yeah, just ended up that, at the end of the day, last putt dropped. I didn’t know it was a course record, it’s really cool to hear.”

Mayakoba Championship 2021 R1

The course isn’t best suited to Wolff’s game, he only hit one driver on Thursday, but he feels confident about his game after working on it during his break since he last played in Las Vegas three weeks ago.

“You know, it’s obviously nice being able to rip dog because it’s a big advantage. I can carry some stuff that most people can’t, so obviously I love courses that I can hit driver on, but I think along with me, every other player out here, when we’re playing good, I mean, it doesn’t matter if a course doesn’t suit you well, we’re all so good out here that on any given day, if it’s Torrey Pines or a course like this and you’re only taking one driver, when you’re on, you’re on and stuff was just kind of going right for me and I felt really good.”

Mayakoba Championship 2021 R1

Aaron Wise shot six birdies and an eagle at the par-5 5th over the first ten holes before closing bogey-par-birdie and lies in second place at 8-under.

“Made a couple long putts, hit a couple really good iron shots and drove it well. It takes a lot to be 8 under through 10. I was happy to be there, but this course has a pretty tough finish to it. There’s probably three, four really tough holes coming down the back end an d one of them got me there with hitting a 3-wood out of play, but was able to save bogey, and then made a nice long putt on 18 for birdie to kind of cap off the round.”

Mayakoba Championship 2021 R1

Chris Kirk started his round on the back nine with a hole-in-one at the par-3 10th and another eagle at the par-5 13th. He made five more birdies as well as three bogeys around the turn to close with a 64 and a share of third place.

“Made me feel a little better about my 4:30 wake-up call this morning. Yeah, No. 10, it was 204, perfect — got to land it a little bit short, so perfect 6-iron for me to land it a little short. I hit a really good shot. We were first group out, so it was still kind of overcast and dark, and walking up, as we got close to the green, it was like there’s not a ball there, there’s not a ball there. Justin, my caddie, was like, “I swear I saw it rolling on the green,” so I was like, “It’s either in or just over in the rough,” and sure enough, Danny and Jonas actually got up there before I did and started celebrating early.

Mayakoba Championship 2021 R1

Billy Horschel and Spain’s Sergio Garcia shot bogey-free 64s for their share of third place alongside Talor Gooch.

“I think there were obviously a couple shots here and there that I could have hit better,” said Garcia, “but it’s difficult to hit every shot pretty much like you want throughout 18 holes. I drove the ball quite well for pretty much the whole day. My irons were in pretty good shape and gave myself a lot of chances, so I was able to roll it quite nicely. Thanks to that, I made a couple putts, so that was good “

Mayakoba Championship 2021 R1

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1
1	Matthew Wolff	-10	61
2	Aaron Wise	-8	63
T3	Chris Kirk	-7	64
T3	Billy Horschel	-7	64
T3	Sergio Garcia	-7	64
T3	Talor Gooch	-7	64
T7	Joel Dahmen	-6	65
T7	J.J. Spaun	-6	65
T7	Russell Henley	-6	65
T7	Bill Haas	-6	65
T11	Ian Poulter	-5	66
T11	Andrew Landry	-5	66
T11	Chez Reavie	-5	66
T11	Rickie Fowler	-5	66
T11	Adam Long	-5	66
T11	Sepp Straka	-5	66
T11	Brandt Snedeker	-5	66
T11	John Huh	-5	66
T11	Andrew Novak	-5	66
T20	James Hahn	-4	67
T20	Scottie Scheffler	-4	67
T20	Tony Finau	-4	67
T20	Tyler Duncan	-4	67
T20	Justin Rose	-4	67
T20	Emiliano Grillo	-4	67
T20	Stephan Jaeger	-4	67
T20	Denny McCarthy	-4	67
T20	Anirban Lahiri	-4	67
T20	Nick Taylor	-4	67
T20	Carlos Ortiz	-4	67
T20	Viktor Hovland	-4	67
T20	Gary Woodland	-4	67
T20	Brendon Todd	-4	67
T20	Aaron Rai	-4	67
T20	Thomas Detry	-4	67
T36	Troy Merritt	-3	68
T36	Danny Lee	-3	68
T36	Ryan Moore	-3	68
T36	Rory Sabbatini	-3	68
T36	Andrew Putnam	-3	68
T36	Kevin Tway	-3	68
T36	Nate Lashley	-3	68
T36	Danny Willett	-3	68
T36	Martin Laird	-3	68
T36	Justin Thomas	-3	68
T36	Seamus Power	-3	68
T36	Hudson Swafford	-3	68
T36	Matt Kuchar	-3	68
T36	Kramer Hickok	-3	68
T36	Maverick McNealy	-3	68
T36	Matt Fitzpatrick	-3	68
T36	Abraham Ancer	-3	68
T36	Michael Thompson	-3	68
T36	Sung Kang	-3	68
T36	Keith Mitchell	-3	68
T36	Patton Kizzire	-3	68
T57	Roger Sloan	-2	69
T57	Camilo Villegas	-2	69
T57	Charles Howell III	-2	69
T57	Ryan Palmer	-2	69
T57	Joaquin Niemann	-2	69
T57	Henrik Stenson	-2	69
T57	Russell Knox	-2	69
T57	Luke List	-2	69
T57	Joseph Bramlett	-2	69
T57	Guido Migliozzi	-2	69
T57	Brian Stuard	-2	69
T57	Alex Noren	-2	69
T57	Charl Schwartzel	-2	69
T57	Doug Ghim	-2	69
T57	C.T. Pan	-2	69
T57	Adam Hadwin	-2	69
T57	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	-2	69
T57	Scott Piercy	-2	69
T57	Greyson Sigg	-2	69
T57	Trey Mullinax	-2	69
T57	JD Fernandez	-2	69
T78	Patrick Rodgers	-1	70
T78	Tyrrell Hatton	-1	70
T78	Graeme McDowell	-1	70
T78	Matt Jones	-1	70
T78	Henrik Norlander	-1	70
T78	Davis Riley	-1	70
T78	Vincent Whaley	-1	70
T78	Mito Pereira	-1	70
T78	Brendan Steele	-1	70
T78	Doc Redman	-1	70
T78	Kevin Streelman	-1	70
T78	Cameron Tringale	-1	70
T78	Kelly Kraft	-1	70
T78	Braden Thornberry	-1	70
T92	Will Zalatoris	E	71
T92	Harold Varner III	E	71
T92	Brooks Koepka	E	71
T92	Shane Lowry	E	71
T92	Charley Hoffman	E	71
T92	Garrick Higgo	E	71
T92	Jhonattan Vegas	E	71
T92	Brice Garnett	E	71
T92	J.T. Poston	E	71
T92	Dylan Frittelli	E	71
T92	Keegan Bradley	E	71
T92	Roberto Díaz	E	71
T104	Jonas Blixt	+1	72
T104	Tom Hoge	+1	72
T104	Jimmy Walker	+1	72
T104	Adam Svensson	+1	72
T104	Nick Watney	+1	72
T104	Francesco Molinari	+1	72
T104	Martin Trainer	+1	72
T104	Pat Perez	+1	72
T112	Peter Malnati	+2	73
T112	Hank Lebioda	+2	73
T112	Brian Harman	+2	73
T112	Sam Ryder	+2	73
T112	Luke Donald	+2	73
T112	Zach Johnson	+2	73
T112	Patrick Reed	+2	73
T112	Richy Werenski	+2	73
T112	Adam Schenk	+2	73
T112	Eugenio Chacarra (a)	+2	73
T112	Willie Mack III	+2	73
T123	Camilo Aguado	+3	74
T123	Kyle Stanley	+3	74
T123	Juan Carlos Benitez	+3	74
T126	Curtis Thompson	+4	75
T126	Lucas Herbert	+4	75
T126	Brian Gay	+4	75
T126	Scott Stallings	+4	75
T130	Samuel Del Val	+5	76
T130	Taylor Pendrith	+5	76
132	David Lipsky	+6	77