World Golf Championship moves from Mexico to Florida
January 19, 2021
Concession Golf Club (YouTube)
The first World Golf Championship of 2021 will be returning to the American state of Florida. On Friday, according to Bob Harig of ESPN, the WGC-Mexico Championship will take place at the Concession Golf Club in Bradenton from February 25 to 28.
The golf course was designed by former golf stars Jack Nicklaus and Tony Jacklin, and opened in 2006. It then hosted the 2015 National Collegiate Golf Championship, and was won by 2020 U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau of Modesto, California.
The reason for the move is because tournament sponsors in Mexico did not want to have the tournament just outside of Mexico City without spectators. Due to coronavirus, that makes things difficult in Mexico at the moment. There are currently 277,616 active cases of coronavirus in Mexico, with 140,704 deaths. There have also been 1,641,428 total cases of coronavirus in Mexico with 11,170 new cases over the last 24 hours.
The tournament is actually coming back to Florida. The tournament had been at the Doral Golf Resort (later owned by American President Donald Trump) from 2007 to 2016, and moved to the Club de Golf Chapultepec in 2017. One reason why the event was initially moved from the United States to Mexico originally was because of Trump’s controversial political comments (including about Mexico).
The purse for the tournament is to remain at $10.5 million, with the winner’s share being $1.82 million. Patrick Reed of San Antonio, Texas is the defending champion. The 2018 Masters champion won his second career World Golf Championship last February when he beat DeChambeau by a stroke. Reed previously won the 2014 WGC event in Doral when he beat Jamie Donaldson of Wales and two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson of Bagdad, Florida by a stroke.
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