Inter Rapidisimo Golf Championship preview: Tournament storylines, notes, more

This year marks the fifth playing of the Inter Rapidisimo Golf Championship, and each of the first four winners of the event are currently Korn Ferry Tour members – Cristóbal Del Solar (2022), Myles Creighton (2023), Harry Hillier (2024) and Davis Lamb (2025).

Club El Rincón de Cájica, a Robert Trent Jones Sr. design, plays at 8,400 feet above sea level, and it yielded the first sub-60 score in PGA TOUR Americas history when Harry Hillier shot a second-round 59 in 2024.

After this event, 15 new members will join PGA TOUR Americas, as the players who finished Nos. 11-25 in the PGA TOUR University Class of 2026 will be eligible to compete in the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Wichita Open presented by Syndeo (June 25-28).

Player notes

Patrick Flavin (Highwood, Illinois) has played in Sunday’s final group three times in the season’s first five events. In those starts, he won the Abierto del Centro Zurich, lost a playoff at the Diners Club Peru Open and finished T8 last week at the Mexico Championship presented by Scotia Wealth Management. He has topped the points list each of the last four weeks and is second on tour with a 68.10 scoring average.

Corey Pereira (Sacramento, California) delivered an emotional victory last week at the Mexico Championship, winning in just his sixth TOUR-sanctioned start since his wife, Leah, died of a rare and highly aggressive sarcoma last June. He’s No. 2 on the points list with four top-25 finishes in five starts this season.

Thomas Ponder (Dothan, Alabama) leads the Tour with a 67.70 scoring average and has carded 13 consecutive rounds in the 60s. He has posted four straight top 10s, including a solo-fourth last week at the Mexico Championship, and he is currently No. 6 on the points list.

Riley Lewis (Prescott, Arizona) has recorded four top 25s in five starts this season, including his runner-up finish this past Sunday in Mexico. He went bogey free over the last 29 holes of the Mexico Championship presented by Scotia Wealth Management, including a hole-in-one on the par-3 ninth on Saturday.

Paul Chaplet (San Jose, Costa Rica) carded a final-round 64, the day’s best score, to improve 34 spots and finish T12 last week in Mexico City. Chaplet finished T8 in Bogota last season, one of four top-25 finishes on the year, and went on to finish No. 37 on the PGA TOUR Americas Points List.

Brady McKinlay (Lacombe, Canada) finished T6 last week in Mexico, his first top 10 in 16 career starts on PGA TOUR Americas, to move to No. 51 on the points list. McKinlay earned membership for the first time this season by finishing T2 at PGA TOUR Americas Q-School in California in March.

Tomas Restrepo (Manizales, Colombia)will make his first PGA TOUR-sanctioned start this week at age 18. He won the 2026 Junior Orange Bowl by three strokes this past January and finished T3 in his second career start at the 2026 Latin America Amateur Championship in Peru. Other accolades include a win at the 2025 South American Junior Championship and co-medalist honors at the 2025 Toyota Junior World Cup in Japan, and he represented Colombia at the 2025 World Amateur Team Championship in Singapore.

Tournament facts

• Course: Club El Rincón de Cájica; Bogota, Colombia; par 72, 7,464 yards
• Purse: $225,000 USD ($40,500 winner)
• PGA TOUR Americas points: 500 (winner)