Best Bets For The 2024 World Wide Technology Championship

The PGA gets back into the swing of things this week with the World Wide Technology Championship (WWT Championship) which will take place at the Tiger Woods-designed El Cardonal at Diamante in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

The course is located on the Baja Peninsula on the Western side of Mexico and saw its first action on the PGA last season. Players generally did not have a hard time finding low scores on El Cardonal as the top three players all managed to hit 25 under par or better here in 2023.

While you can expect some wind, things don’t look too bad this season, although you will see gusts hit the 20 mph range at points, with Thursday looking like the windiest of the four days. The gusts are expected to get less severe as the week goes on, so we are likely to see low scoring once again and the winner potentially approach 25 under par or better. 

2024 World Wide Technology Championship Betting Preview

The field for this season's WWT Championship is relatively weak. It’s a 132-man event but only two players from the top 40 in the OWGR are in attendance (Cameron Young - 32nd, and Max Greyserman - 40th). That makes this a wide-open tournament, with plenty of players down in the betting odds having a great shot at making some noise this week.

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As mentioned above, the venue played extremely easy last season and not much is expected to change in that regard in 2024. El Cardonal is a relatively straightforward Par 72 course that comes in at 7,452 yards in length and features wide open fairways, massive greens (which produced very high GIR%s last season), and slower Paspalum greens that should lead to a high make percentage this week on mid-to-short putts. 

Putting was the main stat to key in on last season, with the top three finishers all finishing in the top 5 in Putts per GIR. It’s also worth noting that this venue proved to be a great fit for veterans who know how to manage their way around a quirky course, as there were plenty of players in their late 30s and early 40s who finished inside the top 10 after Sunday’s final round. 

Here’s how last season’s WWT Championship played out

2023 – Erik van Rooyen (+8000) -27 (winner over Matt Kuchar and Camilo Villegas -25)

• Van Royen shot 63 in the final round of the event
• He ranked T13 in GIR for the week and third in Putts per GIR
• The event produced a ton of low scores and there were multiple people in the 40s (Palmer, Kuchar, Villegas) in the top 8

Before we get to the bets, here are a couple more trends for betting purposes we’ve seen play out at this tournament over the last 15-20 seasons. 

• Five of the last six winners had recorded a top-16 finish in one of their previous two starts before winning here.
• Each of the past six winners of the WWT Championship had played in at least one fall series event before winning this event.

Betting Odds For The World Wide Technology Championship

*2024 WWT Championship Top 10 names in betting odds (DraftKings)

Best Bets for the World Wide Technology Championship

Below are my favorite betting targets for the week. I’ve created an entire card you can peruse at the end and also added unit sizing for each play. 

While I have a handful of outright plays I do like playing many of these names in the placing department, or as matchup plays as well. I’ve also included placing options for some names if you want exposure to both options (or only want to bet some players for a place).

For odds, I’ve also used the best options available at the time of writing so you know where to look and what to look for. 

Additionally, if you can make each-way bets (win and place bets in one) then I’ve included that option for some players as well where the odds are relevant. 

For more information on how each-way bets work you can click here. 

Harris English Outright (+2700; bet365)

At 35 years of age, English is a veteran who should find this setup to his liking. He’s a four-time winner on the PGA already and has seen two of those wins come off the mainland USA; one in Hawaii in the TOC in January, and one in Mexico, at this same event when it was played at El Camelon on the opposite coast of Mexico. 

English may not be the most consistent off-the-tee player, and his iron play can be erratic, but his putting and short game are elite and have carried him to three top-10 finishes at the US Open over his career. Further, he’s won on paspalum greens before (Mexico 2013) and comes in riding a heater with the putter having gained over 5.1 strokes and 5.4 strokes putting in his last two starts in Utah and Vegas. 

English is sitting around 4th to 6th favorite at most books this week but with the two favorites at under +2000 in odds, in the inexperienced Max Greyserman and Cameron Young (who hasn’t played this fall), I have no issues backing English at +2500 or better. He’s proven he can win on these sorts of resort setups before and his uptick in play of late suggests he’s not far off from accomplishing that feat again soon. 

J.J. Spaun Outright (+3000; FanDuel)

At 34 years of age, Spaun is another veteran who should be able to make some noise around El Cardonal. The American is still sitting at just one win for his career on the PGA but his play of late suggests that another win is not far off. He enters this week with three top-10 finishes over his last six starts (the last a T6 at the Zozo in Japan) and has been in great form with his irons, which have gained him over a stroke on the field now in eight straight starts. 

Much like English, Spaun has had some success in this part of the world before as well, having finished T3 at this event when it took place in Mayakoba back in 2018. He’s not the high-end putter that English is but his ball striking is elite (3rd in strokes gained approach, last 24 rounds) and the change to a slower surface in paspalum should favor him in the long run.

Overall, I expect Spaun to benefit from the venue change this week and with how well he’s been producing, am fine playing him down to +2500 alongside English as an outright.  

Patrick Rodgers Each Way 1/5 Top 8 (+4000; bet365)

Rodgers enters this week just two starts removed from a T11 finish in Utah at the Black Desert Championship. The American faded badly at the Zozo Championship, but his overall trend this fall has been positive and his high finish from two starts ago does place him firmly within one of our two winning trends from above (T16 or better in one of his last two starts). 

Along with having played half-decent this fall, Rodgers’ odds are also much bigger than our first two selections, which makes him a much better each-way target, and gives us multiple ways to profit off a big week from him. While this season will be his first time playing El Cardonal, Mexico has been kind of Rodgers, overall, as he’s posted Top 10 finishes at the Mexico Open–an event played at another larger resort-style course in Vidanta Vallarta–in each of the past three seasons. 

An elite putter who should benefit from the larger greens and more expensive course, I see no reason why this can’t be the week for Rodgers. He’s come excruciatingly close to winning multiple times over the past decade (playoff loss at RSM in 2018, playoff loss at Barracuda in 2023) and tends to do his best work in these weaker, fall-series field events. 

WWT Championship Longshots and Placement Bets 

Henrik Norlander Each-Way 1/5 Top 8 (+7500; bet365) 

Norlander missed the cut in his last start at the Shriners, but he’s another player who fits our recent form trend as he finished T8 at Black Desert in his previous start, and also managed a T8 over in Switzerland just a month and a half ago at the Omega Masters in September.

The Swede has been on a solid run of late and has had some big spike weeks with his irons, having gained 7.7 strokes on approach at the 3M Open in July (T12) and 4.8 strokes on approach in Utah last month (T8). For his career, Norlander has also been somewhat of a fall specialist, having posted six of his career top-eight finishes on the PGA TOUR during the fall swing. 

With his odds boosted back over 70-1 in this weaker field, I don't see any downside to taking out an each-way on him and looking to cash in on some big odds this week (for a place or win).

Justin Suh Outright (+8000; bet365)

• Top 10 (+650; FanDuel)
• Top 20 (+280; FanDuel)

Suh’s recent form may not stick out at first glance, but he gained 5.2 strokes on approach in his last start and has now made five of his last six cuts on the PGA. He’s also another elite putter who has tended to excel at open-style courses, and landed a T4 at this venue last season, in an effort where he shot three rounds of 66 or better and led the field in GIR%.

Suh’s not been the most consistent player since joining the PGA, but he is one of those players who is too talented not to figure it out eventually (and find a win or two) making his odds this week too tempting to pass for me. If anything, his recent form and uptick in iron play suggest this is also a good time to ladder bet through multiple placings.

He’s been making cuts of late but has yet to post a top 10, or even a top 20 in the fall, meaning his odds have yet to be cut, despite being in another incredibly weak field. If his putter shows up this week, with his improved iron play, we could see another big week from the 28-year-old and cash multiple legs of our ladder.

Full Card: 

• Harris English +2700 0.75u
• J.J. Spaun +3000 0.65u
• Patrick Rodgers +4000 EW-8 0.55u/0.55u 
• Henrik Norlander +7500 EW-8 0.3/0.3u 
• Justin Suh +8000 0.25u | T10 +650 0.5u | T20 +280 0.65u