World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba R3

Mayakoba Championship 2021 R3
November 04-07
El Camaleon Golf Club, Riviera Maya, Mexico
$7,200,000
Round 1, Round 2, Round 4

Estimated reading time: 8 minutes

Defending champion Viktor Hovland fired a bogey-free 62 to take the lead in the World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba.

Mayakoba Championship 2021 R3

“That was fun today. Obviously got off to a nice start and it was nice to have one of those rounds where you can kind of keep it going throughout the day instead of maybe slowing down towards the end there where, frankly, there’s some tough holes.”

The Norwegian started the day in a share of third place three shots behind the leader and produced his lowest score in his PGA Tour career to reach 19-under.

Mayakoba Championship 2021 R3

“I think with it being a narrow course helps me because my bad shots tend to not go in the trees, so if I can always stay in between the tree lines, I can — I can kind of hit a lot of approaches on the greens because they are soft, and if I hit good iron shots and they land on the pin, they’re going to stop on the pin.

“Whenever I get into a flow where I’ve got my number s dialed in and I’m swinging it good, it’s just kind of point and shoot. With the speed of these greens and being not so undulated, and usually when there is break, it tends to go just one way, and so for me, it allows me to be pretty aggressive on the putts and kind of trust my reads.”

Mayakoba Championship 2021 R3

Two shots behind in second place, American Talor Gooch’s bogey-free 63 featured an eagle at the par-5 13th.

“It was one of those days you wish you could bottle that come forth up and keep it forever,” said Gooch. “The game came easy today. I hit a bunch of fairways, hit a bunch of greens. Nice when you get a chip-in, you make a 30-footer and those are the type of things you need to have happen to turn it from a 67 to 63, 65. I wish I could be that comfortable more often, that’s for sure.

Mayakoba Championship 2021 R3

Compatriot Justin Thomas lies a further shot behind after signing for a blemish-free 64.

“I’m very, very proud of myself to be where I’m at. It’s funny, I played with [Patrick] Cantlay the first
two rounds of the BMW this year and he had a very similar start. He was off to a very, very sluggish start. He was hitting it really bad and scrambling for pars and bogeys, and on an extremely easy golf course like that, I think he was a couple over around the turn, and we all know what happened that week.

“So I kind of remind myself of that because I watched him just stay patient and plod his way along, and I know this is a course, you can get on crazy kinds of runs out here. It feels good to know I haven’t really done anything special, but I’ve just kind of checked the boxes and done a lot of things I need to do and put ourselves in a good spot.

Mayakoba Championship 2021 R3

Local favourite Carlos Ortiz fired a 67 to move into fourth place at 14-under followed by American J.J. Spaun (67) and Spain’s Sergio Garcia (67) in fifth place.

Overnight leader Matthew Wolff fired one birdie and four bogeys to close with a 74 and move down into T17 at 10-under.

Mayakoba Championship 2021 R3

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	R3	Total
1	Viktor Hovland	-19	67	65	62	194
2	Talor Gooch	-17	64	69	63	196
3	Justin Thomas	-16	68	65	64	197
4	Carlos Ortiz	-14	67	65	67	199
T5	J.J. Spaun	-13	65	68	67	200
T5	Sergio Garcia	-13	64	69	67	200
T7	Andrew Landry	-12	66	68	67	201
T7	Aaron Wise	-12	63	70	68	201
T7	Scottie Scheffler	-12	67	64	70	201
T10	Brendon Todd	-11	67	69	66	202
T10	Joaquin Niemann	-11	69	66	67	202
T10	Seamus Power	-11	68	67	67	202
T10	Denny McCarthy	-11	67	68	67	202
T10	John Huh	-11	66	69	67	202
T10	James Hahn	-11	67	67	68	202
T10	Michael Thompson	-11	68	65	69	202
T17	Tyrrell Hatton	-10	70	66	67	203
T17	Nick Taylor	-10	67	69	67	203
T17	Matt Kuchar	-10	68	66	69	203
T17	Garrick Higgo	-10	71	63	69	203
T17	Doug Ghim	-10	69	65	69	203
T17	Billy Horschel	-10	64	69	70	203
T17	Anirban Lahiri	-10	67	66	70	203
T17	Matthew Wolff	-10	61	68	74	203
T25	Danny Willett	-9	68	68	68	204
T25	Adam Long	-9	66	70	68	204
T25	Abraham Ancer	-9	68	68	68	204
T25	Roberto Díaz	-9	71	65	68	204
T25	Alex Noren	-9	69	67	68	204
T25	C.T. Pan	-9	69	68	67	204
T25	Charles Howell III	-9	69	66	69	204
T25	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	-9	69	68	67	204
T25	Tyler Duncan	-9	67	70	67	204
T25	Brian Stuard	-9	69	69	66	204
T25	Aaron Rai	-9	67	71	66	204
T25	Troy Merritt	-9	68	70	66	204
T37	Joel Dahmen	-8	65	71	69	205
T37	Henrik Norlander	-8	70	66	69	205
T37	Brendan Steele	-8	70	67	68	205
T37	Matt Fitzpatrick	-8	68	69	68	205
T37	Danny Lee	-8	68	69	68	205
T37	Martin Laird	-8	68	66	71	205
T37	Justin Rose	-8	67	70	68	205
T37	Ryan Palmer	-8	69	64	72	205
T45	Tony Finau	-7	67	69	70	206
T45	Sepp Straka	-7	66	71	69	206
T45	Keith Mitchell	-7	68	69	69	206
T45	Adam Hadwin	-7	69	68	69	206
T45	Thomas Detry	-7	67	68	71	206
T45	Maverick McNealy	-7	68	69	69	206
T45	Keegan Bradley	-7	71	67	68	206
T45	Bill Haas	-7	65	68	73	206
T45	Hudson Swafford	-7	68	70	68	206
T54	Patton Kizzire	-6	68	69	70	207
T54	Scott Piercy	-6	69	68	70	207
T54	Chris Kirk	-6	64	73	70	207
T54	Charl Schwartzel	-6	69	69	69	207
T54	Tom Hoge	-6	72	66	69	207
T54	Rickie Fowler	-6	66	72	69	207
T60	Andrew Putnam	-5	68	68	72	208
T60	Doc Redman	-5	70	66	72	208
T60	Kevin Tway	-5	68	69	71	208
T60	Patrick Reed	-5	73	65	70	208
T60	Chez Reavie	-5	66	72	70	208
T60	Vincent Whaley	-5	70	68	70	208
66	Andrew Novak	-4	66	72	71	209
T67	Brandt Snedeker	-3	66	71	73	210
T67	Russell Henley	-3	65	69	76	210
T67	Greyson Sigg	-3	69	69	72	210
70	Adam Svensson	-2	72	65	74	211
CUT	Jhonattan Vegas	-3	71	68		139
CUT	Hank Lebioda	-3	73	66		139
CUT	Sung Kang	-3	68	71		139
CUT	Gary Woodland	-3	67	72		139
CUT	Roger Sloan	-3	69	70		139
CUT	Ian Poulter	-3	66	73		139
CUT	Harold Varner III	-3	71	68		139
CUT	Rory Sabbatini	-3	68	71		139
CUT	Camilo Villegas	-3	69	70		139
CUT	Charley Hoffman	-3	71	68		139
CUT	Russell Knox	-3	69	70		139
CUT	Davis Riley	-3	70	69		139
CUT	Luke List	-3	69	70		139
CUT	Brice Garnett	-2	71	69		140
CUT	Sam Ryder	-2	73	67		140
CUT	Luke Donald	-2	73	67		140
CUT	J.T. Poston	-2	71	69		140
CUT	Pat Perez	-2	72	68		140
CUT	Kyle Stanley	-2	74	66		140
CUT	Kevin Streelman	-2	70	70		140
CUT	Trey Mullinax	-2	69	71		140
CUT	Will Zalatoris	-2	71	69		140
CUT	Ryan Moore	-2	68	72		140
CUT	Nate Lashley	-2	68	72		140
CUT	Shane Lowry	-2	71	69		140
CUT	Matt Jones	-2	70	70		140
CUT	Emiliano Grillo	-2	67	73		140
CUT	Kramer Hickok	-2	68	72		140
CUT	Nick Watney	-1	72	69		141
CUT	Dylan Frittelli	-1	71	70		141
CUT	Martin Trainer	-1	72	69		141
CUT	Brian Gay	-1	75	66		141
CUT	Cameron Tringale	-1	70	71		141
CUT	Braden Thornberry	-1	70	71		141
CUT	Graeme McDowell	-1	70	71		141
CUT	Henrik Stenson	-1	69	72		141
CUT	Stephan Jaeger	-1	67	74		141
CUT	Zach Johnson	Par	73	69		142
CUT	Richy Werenski	Par	73	69		142
CUT	Juan Carlos Benitez	Par	74	68		142
CUT	Jonas Blixt	Par	72	70		142
CUT	Patrick Rodgers	Par	70	72		142
CUT	Brooks Koepka	Par	71	71		142
CUT	Brian Harman	+1	73	70		143
CUT	Francesco Molinari	+1	72	71		143
CUT	Lucas Herbert	+1	75	68		143
CUT	Adam Schenk	+1	73	70		143
CUT	JD Fernandez	+1	69	74		143
CUT	Jimmy Walker	+1	72	71		143
CUT	Guido Migliozzi	+1	69	74		143
CUT	Scott Stallings	+2	75	69		144
CUT	Taylor Pendrith	+2	76	68		144
CUT	Peter Malnati	+2	73	71		144
CUT	Curtis Thompson	+3	75	70		145
CUT	Eugenio Chacarra (a)	+4	73	73		146
CUT	Willie Mack III	+4	73	73		146
CUT	Joseph Bramlett	+4	69	77		146
CUT	Camilo Aguado	+4	74	72		146
CUT	David Lipsky	+4	77	69		146
CUT	Mito Pereira	+6	70	78		148
CUT	Samuel Del Val	+10	76	76		152
WD	Kelly Kraft	Par	70	52		122