Final coverage
World Wide Technology Championship 2026: tournament hub
Blades Brown, 19, won the World Wide Technology Championship on −23, beating Ben James on the second playoff hole after a closing 63. He is the PGA TOUR's youngest winner since 1931.
- World Wide Technology Championship
- El Cardonal at Diamante, Los Cabos, Mexico
- 5–8 Nov 2026
- PGA TOUR
Leaderboard
| Pos | Player | To par | Thru |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blades Brown | -23 | F |
| 2 | Ben James | -23 | F |
| 3 | Michael Kim | -22 | F |
| 4 | Kensei Hirata | -21 | F |
| 5 | David Ford | -20 | F |
| T6 | Denny McCarthy | -19 | F |
| T6 | Alvaro Ortiz | -19 | F |
| T8 | Jordan Smith | -18 | F |
| T8 | Seamus Power | -18 | F |
| T8 | Keith Mitchell | -18 | F |
| T8 | Ryan Gerard | -18 | F |
Round by round
Brown, 19, wins in a playoff
Blades Brown started seven behind and shot 63. Ben James holed a 20-foot eagle putt at the 18th to tie on −23, and Brown beat him with a birdie at the second playoff hole. Brown is the youngest PGA TOUR winner since 1931. Read the winner report
James leads by four
Ben James shot 66 to lead on −21, four ahead of Ryan Gerard, who had a bogey-free 65 with a new blade putter. Chris Kirk and Denny McCarthy are five back, and Michael Kim shot 63, the low round of the day. Read the round report
James leads by one
Ben James, a PGA TOUR rookie, shot a bogey-free 64 to lead on −15, one ahead of Peter Malnati, who bogeyed his last hole. Chris Kirk shot 72 and is six back; five players finish their second rounds on Saturday morning, with the projected cut at −5. Read the round report
Kirk leads by one
Chris Kirk, 110th in the FedExCup Fall standings, shot a bogey-free 63 to lead by one from Nick Dunlap and Zac Blair. Darkness stopped play with four players still on the course; they finish on Friday morning before the second round. Read the round report
Preview published
Ben Griffin defends his tournament-record 259 on a course that has produced four rounds of 61 in three years, and three Canadians start just outside the FedExCup top 100. Read the preview
The World Wide Technology Championship is the sixth of eight FedExCup Fall events and the second of two PGA TOUR weeks in Mexico. Tiger Woods’s El Cardonal at Diamante, a par 72 of 7,452 yards facing the Pacific at Cabo San Lucas, hosts from Thursday 5 to Sunday 8 November. Ben Griffin defends after winning on −29 last year. The purse is US$6 million, with US$1.08 million and 500 FedExCup points for the winner.
Thursday’s first groups go off at 13:30 GMT and the last at 19:44 GMT. A report on each round, with the top of the leaderboard and, from Friday, the cut, goes up here the following morning. Tee times in GMT, the course and the top-100 race are in the preview.
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