Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – WGC-Mexico Championship

2020 WGC-Mexico Championship Fantasy Sleeper Report

With the consciousness just starting to consider the Masters and who may or may not contend there, the Genesis Invitational comes along to remind us of who can thrive at Augusta National.

It would be fair to say that the Riviera club shares plenty of characteristics with Augusta, with the quick, tiered greens leaving many players scratching their heads as putts from inside 10ft miss their target.

Long iron play is another asset at the home of the Masters as it is at Riviera, and that’s perhaps just one of the reasons why Adam Scott was able to end a four-year title drought by claiming the spoils on Sunday.

What was in the water of the Rest of the World team at the Presidents Cup is anybody’s guess, but that’s three Australian winners this season – Scott, Cameron Smith and Marc Leishman – that teed it up in that dramatic event.

To be honest, Scott has been bubbling along nicely at Rivera for a number of years, and the only thing that put most bettors off would have been a lack of competitive golf in 2020.

A change is as good as a rest, as they say, but maybe resting up also has its merits!

The 39-year-old will head south this week alongside a high-quality field for the first WGC event of the campaign: the WGC-Mexico Championship, to be precise, at the Golf Club de Chapultepec.

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This jaunt has a holiday vibe to it, but the business out on the course will be perfectly serious given that many of the world’s leading players will be looking to get a confidence-boosting win in big-time company ahead of major season.

The assignment is perfectly jolly too, with the altitude of some 7400ft above sea level letting players open their shoulder with fairway woods and even long irons and watching their ball pass the 300-yard mark.

The fairways are nice and wide – Phil Mickelson won here in 2018, remember – and only the most wayward of tee shots are gobbled up by the Kikuyu rough or dense three-lines.

The key to success at this layout is approaching these greens, typically with a short iron or wedge in hand. The Poa Annua greens are small in stature but receptive, and so a quality short game is a necessity here – Mickelson and Dustin Johnson (x2) are the last three champions here, which tells its own tale.

DJ, McIlroy, Rahm, Thomas, Scott, Schauffele….this is a high quality renewal, but that’s not to say that a long odds outsider can’t take care of business if they conform to the profile outlined above.

So, here’s our WGC-Mexico Championship sleeper shortlist.

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