The PGA Tour is relocating the Genesis Invitational out of wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles, saying Friday will probably be held Feb. 13-16 on the South course at Torrey Pines in San Diego with an emphasis on aid initiatives for victims of the fires.
That offers Torrey Pines two tournaments in a span of 4 weeks.
The tour stated the $20 million signature occasion hosted by Tiger Woods would return to Riviera Nation Membership subsequent 12 months.
Riviera was not broken, however it’s positioned within the Pacific Palisades group that has been devasted by fires which have killed 28 folks and destroyed greater than 14,000 buildings in Better Los Angeles since Jan. 7.
“Whereas Riviera stays the house of the Genesis Invitational, we sit up for enjoying on one other championship caliber golf course this 12 months and utilizing the event to assist these affected by the fires within the Los Angeles space,” Woods stated.
The announcement got here because the South course at Torrey Pines was getting ready for the third spherical of the Farmers Insurance coverage Open.
Going to the identical course twice in 4 weeks permits the tour to benefit from infrastructure already in place.
Marty Gorsich, the CEO of Century Membership of San Diego that runs the Farmers Insurance coverage Open, stated event organizers and volunteers have been prepared to assist at the same time as a brand new group — Woods’ TGR Stay — is accountable for working the Torrey event in February.
“This wasn’t a bid course of. It wasn’t about getting one thing. It was having the ability to be chosen to assist,” Gorsich stated. “I feel right here in San Diego, we compete a lot with LA on the sphere and contemplate them a rival, but we’re all SoCal collectively.
“This is a chance for San Diego to come back collectively and do one thing with our brothers and sisters up in LA. I actually, actually really feel like that’s part of it,” he stated. “It’s about having the ability to give them a spot to host their occasion and have their sense of group and preserve going (with) what they want and rise above the problem, and for us to have the ability to assist ship that for them, it was actually thrilling for us in that regard.”
Woods has not indicated if he can be enjoying.
The Genesis Invitational is the one non-major he has performed since his legs have been badly injured in a February 2021 automobile crash in LA.
Woods is an eight-time winner as a professional at Torrey Pines, together with the 2008 U.S. Open. He final performed Torrey Pines in 2020 and tied for ninth, his final prime 10 on the PGA Tour.
This would be the first time what beforehand was known as the Los Angeles Open is just not at Riviera since 1998, when it was held on the TPC Valencia as a result of Riviera was getting ready to host the U.S. Senior Open that 12 months. The event was first held at Riviera in 1929.
Riviera has hosted U.S. Open and the PGA Championship.
The membership will host the U.S. Ladies’s Open for the primary time in 2026, and the golf competitors for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
It additionally will host the U.S. Open in 2031 for the primary time since 1948.
Torrey Pines has been a part of the PGA Tour since 1968 and has hosted two U.S. Opens.
“Highlighting the resilience of Los Angeles and the necessity for continued assist for the continued restoration efforts is what our collective groups are working in direction of with the enjoying of the Genesis Invitational at Torrey Pines,” PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan stated.
Torrey Pines twice has held tournaments 5 months aside when the U.S. Open was held on San Diego’s fabled municipal course in 2008 and 2021.
A good faster turnaround was at Muirfield Village in 2020 when it hosted tournaments in consecutive weeks — the Workday Charity Open and the Memorial — as a part of a reconfigured schedule introduced on by the COVID-19 pandemic.