Wildfires in the Los Angeles area forced a relocation of this year’s Genesis to Torrey Pines, which is hosting a Tour event this week.
With the 10th GOLFZON Tour match complete, what began as a 12-team competition for a $150,000 grand prize is now a two-team battle.
The Genesis Invitational scheduled for Feb. 10-16 will not be played at The Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades.
The PGA Tour has decided to relocate February's Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades because of the deadly fires in the Los Angeles area.
The wildfires that have spread across Los Angeles may force the PGA Tour to postpone or relocate next month’s Genesis Invitational. As of late Thursday nearly a quarter of a million residents were forced to evacuate their residences in the greater Los Angeles area due to numerous fires in the region.
The PGA Tour has not yet decided if it will move next month's Genesis Invitational from Riviera Country Club due to the Los Angeles wildfires. The post PGA Tour monitoring Los Angeles fires with Riviera hosting Genesis Invitational next month appeared first on Golf.
The tournament was scheduled to take place from Feb. 13 to 16 at The Riviera Country Club, which is in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Still to be determined is where the $20 million signature event, with Tiger Woods as the tournament host, will relocate for Feb. 13-16.
Next month's Genesis Invitational was scheduled to be played at Riviera Country Club in the Pacific Palisades, but due to the recent wildfires, the PGA announced on Thursday it will be moved.
The PGA Tour said it would soon announce a new venue for the Los Angeles-area tournament, which has been staged almost exclusively at Riviera since 1973.
The PGA Tour event that Tiger Woods was scheduled to host in Southern California next month will be played at an alternate venue due to the massive wildfires that have ravaged parts of Los Angeles, the U.