PLAYA DEL CARMEN, MEXICO | A lot has changed since February 2007 when the PGA Tour came to Mexico to stage an opposite-field event.
Some changes can be measured in numbers, like how the purse of the Mayakoba Golf Classic has gone from $3.5 million to $7.2 million for this year — that is a very competitive number, more than two dozen other PGA Tour events on the calendar. And since 2013, the event has been held in November while no longer having to share the week with a high-profile Tour event. There’s a Masters invitation and full FedEx Cup points at stake now.
But it’s not strictly about numbers. During the opening ceremonies Tuesday, the grandstand on the first tee was packed with kids, many of them holding cutouts with the faces of their favorite players.
