The 2026 VidantaWorld Mexico Open runs Thursday, October 29 through Sunday, November 1 at Vidanta Vallarta near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, a Greg Norman par 71 along the Ameca River that was reworked for its first fall date. It is the fifth of eight FedExCup Fall events, with a $6 million purse and 500 FedExCup points to the winner, and it has its strongest headliner in years: two-time U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark, the highest-ranked player in the field. Defending champion Brian Campbell is back, so is the man he beat in a playoff, and 2023 champion Tony Finau arrives on the wrong side of the card line. Here is the full preview: every player in the 120-man field, how to watch, what the renovated course rewards, and where the community board stands.
Who is in the field at the 2026 VidantaWorld Mexico Open
Field as of October 27
Commitments closed at 5 p.m. ET on Friday, October 23, so this is the full 120-player field, and it can still move before Thursday through withdrawals and alternates.
- A to B: Kihei Akina, Aaron Baddeley, Zach Bauchou, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Zac Blair, Chandler Blanchet, Blades Brown
- C: Brian Campbell, Rafael Campos, Davis Chatfield, Luke Clanton, Wyndham Clark, Corey Conners, Pierceson Coody, Ryder Cowan, Trace Crowe
- D to F: Joel Dahmen, John Daly II, Cam Davis, Santiago de la Fuente, Zecheng Dou, Adrien Dumont de Chassart, Nick Dunlap, Austin Eckroat, Garrett Endicott, A.J. Ewart, Alejandro Fierro, Mauricio Figueroa Ramirez, Tony Finau, Patrick Fishburn, Steven Fisk, David Ford
- G to H: Brice Garnett, Doug Ghim, Gerardo Gomez, Max Greyserman, Ben Griffin, Emiliano Grillo, Harry Hall, Garrick Higgo, Joe Highsmith, Kensei Hirata, Lee Hodges, Rico Hoey, Rasmus Højgaard, Max Homa, Billy Horschel, Beau Hossler, Mark Hubbard, Mackenzie Hughes
- J to L: Ben James, Takumi Kanaya, Jeffrey Kang, Johnny Keefer, Tom Kim, Patton Kizzire, Christo Lamprecht, Hank Lebioda, Haotong Li, David Lipsky, Justin Lower
- M to O: Peter Malnati, Ben Martin, Denny McCarthy, Max McGreevy, Mac Meissner, Taylor Moore, Omar Morales, William Mouw, Keita Nakajima, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Andrew Novak, Pontus Nyholm, Eli Ortego, Alvaro Ortiz
- P to R: C.T. Pan, John Parry, Matthieu Pavon, Taylor Pendrith, Marco Penge, Paul Peterson, Chandler Phillips, Trent Phillips, Aldrich Potgieter, Seamus Power, Andrew Putnam, Chad Ramey, Davis Riley, Patrick Rodgers, Kevin Roy, Marcelo Rozo
- S: Isaiah Salinda, Gordon Sargent, Neal Shipley, Ben Silverman, David Skinns, Jordan Smith, Austin Smotherman, Hayden Springer, Jimmy Stanger, Kevin Streelman, Jackson Suber, Adam Svensson, Jesper Svensson
- T to Y: Cameron Tankersley, Tayler Termeer, Davis Thompson, Alejandro Tosti, Sami Valimaki, Erik van Rooyen, John VanDerLaan, Kristoffer Ventura, Karl Vilips, Camilo Villegas, Danny Walker, Vince Whaley, Aaron Wise, Dylan Wu, Sudarshan Yellamaraju, Kevin Yu
The list above matches the PGA Tour's published field, cross-checked against Golf News Net and Yahoo Sports. One slot differs between them: Golf News Net's October 25 list shows Tyler Duncan where the Tour's list shows Sami Valimaki, so check that name once tee times post. Will Gordon and Harry Higgs are first on the alternate list, per Golf News Net.
How they got in
Two past champions. Brian Campbell won here in February 2025, and Tony Finau won in 2023 with the tournament record of 260. Aldrich Potgieter, who lost to Campbell in a playoff, is back too.
Ten sponsor exemptions. Six went to Mexican professionals: Santiago de la Fuente, Alejandro Fierro, Mauricio Figueroa Ramirez, Gerardo Gomez, Omar Morales and Alvaro Ortiz. Ortiz is the one with a résumé this year. He won twice on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2026, at the UNC Health Championship and the Simmons Bank Open, and finished fifth on its points list to earn a PGA Tour card. The other four invites went to BYU's Kihei Akina, who was ninth at the Bank of Utah after a 65-65 weekend; Oklahoma senior Ryder Cowan, who took low-amateur honors at the 2026 U.S. Open; John Daly II; and Camilo Villegas, back at Vallarta for the first time since 2023.
Four open qualifiers and a section champion. Garrett Endicott, Eli Ortego, Trent Phillips and Cameron Tankersley came through qualifying, and Tayler Termeer is in as a PGA section champion.
The rest of the field is built from status, and a lot of that status is still being decided.
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Quick comparison: what to track at Vidanta Vallarta
| Storyline | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Wyndham Clark | World No. 5 and the highest-ranked player here. Three 2026 wins, including the U.S. Open at Shinnecock and the BMW Championship |
| Brian Campbell | Defending champion. Won in a playoff over Potgieter at 20 under in 2025. Nobody has gone back-to-back here |
| Austin Smotherman | Won the Bermuda Championship in a Monday playoff over Seamus Power, three weeks after winning the Bank of Utah |
| Tony Finau | 2023 champion with the 72-hole record, and No. 104 in the FedExCup Fall standings, outside the top 100 |
| Tom Kim | Genesis Scottish Open winner this summer, fresh off a gold medal at the Asian Games in Japan |
| The new layout | Four holes changed and about 100 yards removed, so course history is only partly useful |
Event: 2026 VidantaWorld Mexico Open, PGA Tour FedExCup Fall, $6 million purse, 500 FedExCup points to the winner
Dates: Thursday, October 29 to Sunday, November 1, 2026
Venue: Vidanta Vallarta, near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (par 71, 7,337 yards)
Watch: Golf Channel, 4 to 7 p.m. ET Thursday to Saturday and 3 to 6 p.m. ET Sunday
Field: 120 players, cut to the top 65 and ties after Friday
Defending champion: Brian Campbell, 264 (20 under), won on the second playoff hole over Aldrich Potgieter
How to watch the 2026 VidantaWorld Mexico Open
Golf Channel has all four rounds. There is no network window this week, and Yahoo Sports' viewing guide notes that PGA Tour Live on ESPN+ does not carry this event, so the TV window is the main live option. PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM, also free at PGATOUR.com, starts two hours before TV each day.
| Round | Date | ET | CT | PT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Round 1 | Thursday, Oct. 29 | 4 to 7 p.m. | 3 to 6 p.m. | 1 to 4 p.m. |
| Round 2 | Friday, Oct. 30 | 4 to 7 p.m. | 3 to 6 p.m. | 1 to 4 p.m. |
| Round 3 | Saturday, Oct. 31 | 4 to 7 p.m. | 3 to 6 p.m. | 1 to 4 p.m. |
| Final round | Sunday, Nov. 1 | 3 to 6 p.m. | 2 to 5 p.m. | Noon to 3 p.m. |
The Sunday shift is the clock, not the schedule. U.S. daylight saving time ends early Sunday morning, and Puerto Vallarta does not change its clocks, so the broadcast covers the same 2 to 5 p.m. local window all four days. First and second round tee times had not been released as of Tuesday morning.
What the FedExCup Fall decides this week
The top 100 in the final FedExCup Fall standings keep full PGA Tour status for 2027, and this is the first of the last four events to get there. Per the PGA Tour's preview, Lee Hodges is No. 100, holding the last fully exempt card, with Max Greyserman 99th, Chandler Phillips 98th and Taylor Pendrith 96th just inside. Outside looking in: Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen at 101st, Tony Finau 104th, A.J. Ewart 105th and Rico Hoey 106th. A former champion of this event sitting four spots outside a card is the storyline the bubble did not expect.
Higher up, Nos. 51 to 60 in the final standings earn spots in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and the Genesis Invitational next season. Corey Conners jumped from 66th to 54th with his T3 in Bermuda, his best result of the season, and Seamus Power's runner-up finish there moved him to 68th and safely inside the card line.
The course: a Norman design with four new holes
Vidanta Vallarta is a Greg Norman design on the VidantaWorld resort, routed along the Ameca River with the Sierra Madre behind it. It has hosted the Mexico Open since the event joined the PGA Tour in 2022, but this is not quite the same golf course. The Tour lists it at 7,337 yards this year, about 100 yards shorter after a renovation, and four holes changed:
- No. 4 is now a 423-yard par 4, down from roughly 520 yards.
- No. 11 went from a par 3 to a 445-yard par 4.
- No. 13 went from a par 3 to a 297-yard drivable par 4.
- No. 15 went from a par 4 to a 174-yard par 3.
The par stays at 71, with four par 5s that run from 548 to 637 yards and two long par 3s at 226 and 235 yards. The 17th now has a stadium-style build-out, and the 1st, 9th, 10th and 18th sit together in one corner of the property.
The winning scores tell you the course has always given up birdies: 17 under for Jon Rahm in 2022, 24 under for Finau in 2023, 19 under for Jake Knapp in 2024, and 20 under for Campbell and Potgieter last year. Rahm (third round, 2023) and Potgieter (second round, 2025) share the course record of 61.
What actually wins at Vidanta Vallarta
The fairways are wide by Tour standards, so the course has rewarded distance and iron play more than accuracy. Rahm, Finau, Knapp and Potgieter are all long hitters, and Potgieter is one of the longest drivers on Tour. Four par 5s, three of them over 580 yards, give the longer players more chances to reach in two.
The renovation pushes that further. A drivable 13th adds one more hole where length pays, while the switch at 11 and 15 trades a par 3 and a par 4 without changing the par. The bigger change for anyone using past results: four of the 18 holes have no history at all, so course form from 2022 to 2025 is still useful but less precise than usual.
Three of four winners here have been long hitters, and the new 13th gives them one more green to reach. If the scores go deep again, the player who wins is likely the one making birdies on the par 5s and the short par 4, not the one keeping it in the fairway.
Course history worth knowing: Ben Griffin finished T4 here last year at 18 under, Isaiah Salinda was solo third, and Clark finished T23 in his only start here in 2023. Rahm, who won here in 2022 and finished second in 2023, is not in the field.
VidantaWorld Mexico Open 2026 odds: where the community board stands
As of 12:55 p.m. UTC on Tuesday, October 27, the BettorEdge community board has the VidantaWorld Mexico Open winner market open, with 113 players listed and zero live prices posted on any of them. No number is quoted here, because none exists on the board yet, and a made-up price would be worse than none. Outright liquidity on a fall event tends to arrive once pairings post and Thursday's tee sheet is set.
The pecking order is not hard to read. Previews have Clark as the clear favorite, the only top-10 player in the field. Behind him come Ben Griffin (world No. 28), Tom Kim (No. 31), and then a group that includes Smotherman, Conners, Marco Penge (No. 54) and Johnny Keefer (No. 65).
Keep the scale in mind when prices do post. In a 120-player field the average entrant is well under a 1 percent shot. A +550 favorite is claiming roughly a 15 percent chance to beat everyone else at once, and a +700 price claims 12.5 percent. Run every number through the implied probability calculator before you back it.
The case on each side of Clark
The case for. Clark is the best player here by a distance. He has won three times in 2026, including a wire-to-wire U.S. Open at Shinnecock and the BMW Championship at Bellerive, where he finished at 17 under and won by three. He was also on the winning U.S. Presidents Cup team. On a course that has paid long hitters who make birdies, his profile fits.
The case against. His only start this fall was a T63 at the Baycurrent Classic in Japan, and he has played this course only once, a T23 in 2023. Favorites have a thin record at this event. Campbell won his first Tour title here, Knapp won as a rookie in his fifth start, and nobody has won it twice. A short price on Clark asks you to believe the gap in talent beats the rust and the pattern.
Where the value sits
Form is concentrated in a few names. Smotherman has won his last two starts, the Bank of Utah and Bermuda. Conners was T3 in Bermuda, and Power was runner-up there. Those are the players arriving with recent proof, and recent form usually counts for more than course history on a reworked layout.
The bubble is a motivation edge, not a skill edge. Finau, Neergaard-Petersen, Ewart and Hoey need points, and Hodges, Greyserman and Phillips need to hold on. Pressure does not make anyone better, but it does guarantee their full attention. The golf outright betting guide covers why a 3 percent chance and a 3 percent price are not the same thing.
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Beyond the outright: cut and matchup angles
The cut is the top 65 and ties after 36 holes, and with winning scores of 17 to 24 under here, the cut number tends to sit under par. On a birdie course the make-the-cut question is less about avoiding mistakes and more about keeping pace. The sponsor exemptions and open qualifiers, several of them making rare Tour starts, are where those markets are least tested. The make the cut betting guide walks through how they are built.
Matchups are the other angle. The four new holes make two-round head-to-heads a cleaner read on current form than on course history, because no one has played them in competition. A matchup between a player with strong recent results and one leaning on past finishes here is a fair question to ask this week. The golf matchup betting guide and the top 5 and top 10 finish guide cover both, and the rest of the fall schedule is on the BettorEdge golf hub.
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VidantaWorld Mexico Open 2026 FAQ
Who is in the field at the VidantaWorld Mexico Open?
The 2026 VidantaWorld Mexico Open has a 120-player field led by Wyndham Clark, Ben Griffin, Tom Kim, Corey Conners and Bermuda winner Austin Smotherman, plus past champions Brian Campbell and Tony Finau. Max Homa, Billy Horschel, Blades Brown and runner-up Aldrich Potgieter are also in, along with six Mexican professionals on sponsor exemptions, including Korn Ferry Tour winner Alvaro Ortiz. The full list is above, as of October 27.
When is the 2026 VidantaWorld Mexico Open and how can I watch it?
The 2026 VidantaWorld Mexico Open runs Thursday, October 29 through Sunday, November 1 at Vidanta Vallarta, with all four rounds on Golf Channel. Coverage is 4 to 7 p.m. ET (1 to 4 p.m. PT) Thursday through Saturday and 3 to 6 p.m. ET (noon to 3 p.m. PT) on Sunday, after clocks fall back.
Where is the VidantaWorld Mexico Open played?
The VidantaWorld Mexico Open is played at Vidanta Vallarta, a Greg Norman par 71 on the VidantaWorld resort near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. It measures 7,337 yards this year after a renovation that changed four holes, including a new drivable par-4 13th.
Who is the defending champion at the Mexico Open?
Brian Campbell is the defending champion, having won in February 2025 at 20 under par on the second playoff hole over Aldrich Potgieter. It was his first PGA Tour title. The event skipped its usual February date in 2026 and moved to the fall.
Who is the favorite to win the 2026 VidantaWorld Mexico Open?
Wyndham Clark is the clear favorite, the world No. 5 and a three-time winner in 2026, including the U.S. Open and the BMW Championship. The BettorEdge community board had its winner market open but no live prices posted as of Tuesday, October 27, so no number is quoted here.
What is the purse for the 2026 VidantaWorld Mexico Open?
The purse is $6 million, with 500 FedExCup points to the winner.
Why is the Mexico Open in the fall now?
The Mexico Open moved from February to the FedExCup Fall in 2026, so this is its first fall playing and the first of two straight PGA Tour stops in Mexico. The World Wide Technology Championship at El Cardonal at Diamante follows on November 5 to 8.
How do I bet on the VidantaWorld Mexico Open?
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The bottom line
The VidantaWorld Mexico Open has a 120-player field, a fall date for the first time, and a headliner who won the U.S. Open and the BMW Championship this year. Behind Clark sit a defending champion who has never repeated, a former champion outside the top 100, and a Bermuda winner who has won his last two starts. Four holes are new, the par 5s are long, and the winning score has never been worse than 17 under. When the board fills in, ask whether a price is paying for a name or for a player who can make birdies on a course that only partly resembles the one in the record book.
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