I hope everyone had a happy and safe Thanksgiving break.  It was really nice to just break away for one weekend and not think about anything but spending time with your family.  It is now time to get back to the grind at least for two more weeks of the 2020 PGA Tour calendar year.

I’ll tell you what, it must be really hard to be a professional golfer.  You just got the week off for Thanksgiving and now you are being forced to go to Playa del Carmen, Mexico for the Mayakoba Golf Classic. It is only home to some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. I still hear stories from my wife about her trip to Riviera Maya for a friend’s wedding and how the shores in Mexico were better than our honeymoon on Maui.  Now that I've made everyone else feel as bad as me for not being able to attend this tournament, let’s talk about the course.

El Camaleon Golf Club plays right alongside those beautiful beaches I spoke about which means you've got the wind to contest with throughout the weekend. For PGA Tour standards, this course is extremely short at only 6,987 yards and listed as a par 71.  The “Shark” Greg Norman designed this course and it features unique environments.  These players must keep their drives on the fairway to avoid all these hazards. That means I'm looking at Strokes Gained: Off-The-Tee and Fairways Hit.  Waialae Country Club which hosts the Sony Open in Hawaii and Harbour Towne Golf Links which hosts the RBC Heritage in Hilton Head, South Carolina are both really good comp courses, both are short courses which punish players for not being accurate.

Players with success on this course have had traditionally good greens in regulation numbers which usually brings in Strokes Gained: Approach as well. Do not go into this weekend with the mindset that the big bombers on tour will dominate this track because of its distance, I'm going to be targeting more of the course manager types. When you look over the course layout, you'll see 11 par 4s for these players to attack, ranging from 386 yards to 485 yards. I'll be checking out Par 4 Birdie or Better as well.

You would think a tournament played in a beautiful place like Playa del Carmen would not have to worry about weather but it looks like we've got issues.  There are 80 percent chance of thunderstorms in the forecast on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday which could wreak havoc on the schedule. 

We've got 132 players in the field and top 65 with ties will make the weekend cut. It's our last cut line event of the 2020 calendar year.  The lineups lock for this event super early Thursday morning. So, you'll want to get them set and ready to rock on Wednesday night.  Here’s to a strong week!

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