Corales Puntacana Championship

Corales Puntacana Championship
Tournament information
LocationPunta Cana, La Altagracia, Dominican Republic
Established2016
Course(s)Corales Golf Club
Par72
Length7,670 yards (7,010 m)[1]
Tour(s)PGA Tour (alternate event)
Web.com Tour (2016–2017)
FormatStroke play
Prize fundUS$4,000,000
Month playedMarch
Tournament record score
Aggregate264 Dominic Bozzelli (2016)
To par−24 as above
Current champion
United States Billy Horschel
Location map
Corales GC is located in the Dominican Republic
Corales GC
Corales GC
Location in the Dominican Republic

The Corales Puntacana Championship is a golf tournament in the Dominican Republic on the PGA Tour, formerly on the Web.com Tour. It was first played in 2016 at the Puntacana Resort and Club,[2] on the east coast in the La Altagracia province.

After two years as a Web.com Tour event, it transitioned to a PGA Tour alternate event (opposite the WGC Match Play in Texas), starting in March 2018.[1] The first PGA Tour event held in the Dominican Republic, it is similar in rewards to other alternate events: 300 FedEx Cup points for the winner, a two-year tour exemption, 24 OWGR points, but no invitation to the Masters Tournament.[3]

The inaugural event in 2016 was held in early June, then moved to early May in 2017.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 tournament was postponed until September when it was part of the 2020–21 PGA Tour season. It was also elevated to full FedEx Cup point event status, with the winner receiving a 2021 Masters Tournament invitation.[4]

Winners

Year Tour[a] Winner Score To par Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up
Corales Puntacana Championship
2024 PGAT United States Billy Horschel 265 −23 2 strokes United States Wesley Bryan
2023 PGAT England Matt Wallace 269 −19 1 stroke Denmark Nicolai Højgaard
2022 PGAT United States Chad Ramey 271 −17 1 stroke United States Ben Martin
United States Alex Smalley
Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship
2021 PGAT United States Joel Dahmen 276 −12 1 stroke Puerto Rico Rafael Campos
United States Sam Ryder
2020 PGAT United States Hudson Swafford 270 −18 1 stroke United States Tyler McCumber
2019 PGAT Northern Ireland Graeme McDowell 270 −18 1 stroke Canada Mackenzie Hughes
United States Chris Stroud
2018 PGAT United States Brice Garnett 270 −18 4 strokes United States Keith Mitchell
2017 WEB United States Nate Lashley[b] 268 −20 1 stroke Argentina Augusto Núñez
2016 WEB United States Dominic Bozzelli[b] 264 −24 4 strokes United States Blake Adams
Mexico Roberto Díaz
United States Sam Ryder

Notes

  1. ^ PGAT − PGA Tour; WEB − Web.com Tour.
  2. ^ a b Player graduated to the PGA Tour via the Web.com Tour regular-season money list.

References

  1. ^ a b "Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship". ESPN. March 25, 2018. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
  2. ^ "New event in Dominican Republic". PGA Tour. October 28, 2015.
  3. ^ "Puntacana tournament transitioning to the PGA Tour in 2018". PGA Tour. April 18, 2017.
  4. ^ Boone, Kyle (September 2, 2020). "PGA Tour releases 2020-21 schedule with 50 total events, most in a season since 1975". CBS Sports. Retrieved September 2, 2020.


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