Blades Brown makes a historic arrival, Bryson DeChambeau tosses up a word salad, and Jon Rahm's statement win
"I just go back to 5-year-old Blades that was watching the TV and watching Tiger Woods and all those great players win major championships, and to think that I’m now in a similar spot with having won a PGA Tour event is mind-blowing," he explained.
Key points
- Here are my favorite and long shot picks for the 2026 Mexico Open: Favorite: Ben Griffin (+1350) - MISS Long Shot: Blades Brown (+3000) - HIT Griffin won this tournament last year, so thinking he could win it again wasn’t crazy.
- Top 10 Picks For World Wide Technology Championship 2026 Jackson Koivun (+172) - MISS Keith Mitchell (+255) - HIT Koivun, another phenom on the PGA Tour, finished T21, so not quite where we expected him to be.
- From a career perspective, Brown now knows he’ll be on the PGA Tour for the next two years, with a spot in the Championship Series when it begins in 2028.
Brown, who turned in 2026, became the youngest player to win a PGA Tour event in nearly 100 years, 95 years to be exact.
Blades Brown, born in 2007 (!), needed all of 22 starts on the PGA Tour to earn his maiden victory.
Additional details
- Brown earned his PGA Tour card earlier this year by finishing inside the Top 20 on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List.
- CABO SAN LUCAS, MEXICO - NOVEMBER 08: Blades Brown of the United States poses with the World Wide Technology Championship Trophy after winning the final round of the World Wide Technology Championship 2026 at El Cardonal at Diamante on November 08, 2026 in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
- Top 5 Bets For World Wide Technology Championship 2026 Ben Griffin (+270) - MISS Blades Brown (+530) - HIT As mentioned above, Griffin finished T12, not quite what we were hoping for in this tournament, but Brown winning helped us hedge a big bet and connect with +530 odds for a Top 5 finish.
- In a year when 21-year-old Jackson Koivun won his first professional tournament, Blades Brown, 19-years-old, has done him one better by winning the World Wide Technology Championship in Mexico.
- Back in September, the Spaniard teed it up in the BMW PGA Championship on the DP World Tour in the midst of what we can now call the final breaths of both his stint on LIV Golf and the circuit as a whole.
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