The Debrief: WGC - Mexico Championship

Everything you need to know from this week's WGC - Mexico Championship.

Patrick Reed held his nerve in a gutsy closing 67 to win his second World Golf Championship title at the 2020 WGC-Mexico Championship.

Here, we take a look at the highlights from an eventful week at Chapultepec Golf Club.

Red hot Reed reigns in Mexico

The American was in fine form at the first World Golf Championship of the season and trailed by one shot heading into the final round in Mexico. After an opening birdie, he parred the next ten holes, with Bryson DeChambeau and reigning Race to Dubai Champion Jon Rahm making big moves. A hat-trick of birdies from the 15th saw Reed power past them both and open up a two shot lead. There threatened to be late drama when the 2018 Masters Tournament Champion sprayed his tee shot a long way right on the last, but Reed kept his composure and a closing bogey saw him finish a shot ahead of countryman DeChambeau at 18 under. Reed said: "It's very rewarding. My team and I, we've worked so hard through the end of last year and also at the beginning of this year and kept on feeling like we were playing some good golf, just we weren't quite able to get over that hump. To come back and win my second World Golf Championship, especially with how I had to finish from basically 15 onwards - the last hole was ugly but it was what I needed just to get the job done."

Rahm's record breaking 61

Rahm was starting his defence of his Race to Dubai title at Chapultepec Golf Club but had been four over after 27 holes. However, he came home in 30 in round two and brought that form into Moving Day in devastating fashion. He was six under after seven holes and while a bogey on the eighth threatened to derail his progress, he made further gains on the tenth, 13th and 15th. Better was to come on the 17th as he holed a gap wedge with one bounce for a hole-in-one that handed him a history making 61. That was the course record at Chapultepec, the lowest round of Rahm's European Tour career and the joint lowest round in the history of the World Golf Championships. "I've been hitting really good putts for the better part of a year but they just haven't gone in," he said. "Starting yesterday on my tenth hole they started going in and it carried on today. I basically had tap-in, tap-in, tap-in and ten feet for birdie and I thought: 'today could be a really special day'. Then backing it up with a great birdie on six and seven and a great tee shot on eight, which is a difficult tee shot, I thought it could have been the day it ended up being."

Chasing the aces pays off

Rahm's stunning one bounce hole-in-one was not the only ace to feature at Chapultepec Golf Club on Moving Day, and both within minutes of each other. American Chez Reavie got the ball rolling at the third, where he chased the pin for a 167 yard to card an eagle. Here are both their efforts.

Lucky Seven

Some people are superstitious with the number seven but Sungjae Im and Erik van Rooyen enjoyed ridiculous luck at the seventh hole during the event. The South Korean should have gone swimming on Friday with this ludicrous break, before South African Van Rooyen earned a late 30th birthday present from the tree on Saturday.

Van Rooyen already enjoying his 30s

The South African turned 30 on Friday and he celebrated it in style by playing in the final group of the weekend as he teed up alongside Reed and third round leader Justin Thomas. He carded a 70 to finish in a tie for third alongside Rahm in Mexico, three shots behind eventual winner Reed. This was thanks to fast starts at the driveable pars fours at the opening two holes, where Van Rooyen played those two in ten under this week.

Golf is easy...

You need plenty of ability to make the professional ranks in golf, never mind playing a World Golf Championship. And Justin Thomas showed that he can even play left-handed when he was stuck behind a tree on Sunday. Superb.