World Golf Championships tend to go to an elite player and moving this event from Florida to Mexico has not changed that fact, with Dustin Johnson triumphing in the inaugural WGC-Mexico before Phil Mickelson beat Justin Thomas in a thrilling 2018 edition.

Yet we've had a 200/1 runner-up in Tommy Fleetwood, at the time only starting along that road to the Ryder Cup, and the likes of Brian Harman, Kiradech Aphibarnrat and Rafa Cabrera Bello firmly in the mix last year. A shot here or there and things might have been very different.

Certainly, there's been a more eclectic feel to the first WGC of the season versus some of its contemporaries and while to some extent that's a product of the qualification criteria, it also speaks to the fact that Club de Golf Chapultepec, on the outskirts of Mexico City, neither looks nor perhaps plays like any other layout on the PGA Tour circuit.

For starters, it's at altitude - almost 8,000 feet above sea level - and it's also tight and tree-lined, with small, sloping greens guarded by bunkers which look more municipal than multi-millionaire. There's just nothing quite like it on the premiere tour in world golf; the small greens of the no-less-unique Harbour Town are at sea level, and trips to the mountains of Colorado are rare, while the Reno-Tahoe Open is for B-listers only.

There is, however, something a little bit like it on the European Tour, namely Crans-sur-Sierre, home of the longstanding European Masters, and that remains an interesting line of inquiry for those looking for the sort of angle which might prize open the door of a house guarded by the Dustin Johnsons of this world.