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 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 Golf Classic is allocated four additional sponsor exemptions designated for players of
Spanish or
Mexican heritage from
Latin America,
South America,
Spain, or Mexico. In 2021,
World Wide Technology was announced as the new title sponsor of the event, in a deal lasting until 2027. In November 2022, it was noted that the El Camaleón Golf Course had been added to the roster for the
2023 LIV Golf League. With the PGA Tour and
LIV Golf's ongoing legal battle, the tour decided to end its relationship with Mayakoba. In January 2023, PGA Tour commissioner
Jay Monahan confirmed that the tour was working with World Wide Technology, but did not see them being back at Mayakoba. ==Winners==