Mayakoba Golf Classic
| Location |
Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico |
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| Established | 2007 |
| Course(s) | El Camaleon Golf Club |
| Par | 71 |
| Length | 6,987 yards (6,389 m) |
| Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
| Format | Stroke play |
| Prize fund | $7.0 million |
| Month played | November |
| Aggregate | 263 Harris English (2013) 263 Pat Perez (2016) |
| To par | −21 as above |
 Pat Perez
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The OHL Classic at Mayakoba is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour in Mexico, held on the Yucatán Peninsula at Playa del Carmen, south of Cancún. It debuted in February 2007 and was the first PGA Tour event in Mexico this century.
Originally an alternate event in late winter, the tournament was played the same week as the WGC Match Play event in Arizona. Mayakoba was part of the FedEx Cup, but only earned half the points of a regular event. The prize fund in 2007 was US$3.5 million (with a winner's share of $630,000), making it the richest golf tournament in Mexico.
Fred Funk, a winner four months earlier on the Champions Tour, took the inaugural event in a playoff over José Cóceres of Argentina. Funk was 50 years, 257 days of age and became the oldest player to win a PGA Tour event in nearly 32 years;Art Wall was about eleven months older when he won the Greater Milwaukee Open in July 1975.
In 2013, the event was moved to mid-November to be part of the 2014 season as a primary event in the early part of the season, which began in October for the first time. The tournament now offered full FedEx Cup points, a Masters invitation, and a large purse increase (over 60%, to $6 million). With the tour's new schedule, the Mayakoba event was not part of the abbreviated 2013 season.
The OHL Classic is allocated four additional sponsor exemptions designated for players of Spanish or Mexican heritage from Latin America, South America, Spain, or Mexico.
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