Four of the five winners at the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship, including last year’s champion Hudson Swafford, return to paradise to try to rekindle some past magic. The event, played opposite the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, returns to its usual spot on the schedule after being contested in September last year.
Graeme McDowell, Brice Garnett, and Nate Lashley (winner when the event was part of the Korn Ferry Tour schedule) join Swafford as previous winners who will tee it up this week at the Tom Fazio designed course.
The final three-hole stretch at the Puntacana Resort & Club is named “The Devil’s Elbow” and has a dramatic forced carry of the Bay of Corales on No. 18. It’s regarded as one of the most idyllic runs of golf on TOUR.
There will be some new faces at this event as golfers who were inside the top-10 on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List at the end of 2020 earn a spot for the alternate-field PGA TOUR events in 2021.
Also, veteran Miguel Angel Jimenez is also competing in the Dominican Republic for the first time in a non-major/non-World Golf Championships event on TOUR since 2009, when he finished T64 at The Honda Classic.
