The PGA Tour is set to move its Genesis Invitational tournament down south after the deadly wildfires raging through the city of Los Angeles forced it to be relocated from its traditional venue of Riviera Country Club.
The Tour made the decision to move the signature event away from Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles, where it has been held a total of 60 times, after wildfires left the city ravaged.
The Genesis Invitational was slated to be hosted by Tiger Woods between February 13 and February 16 at the iconic golf course located in Pacific Palisades.
However, the $20million tournament is now set to be moved south to the infamous Torrey Pines in San Diego, according to Sports Illustrated, as the exclusive Pacific Palisades enclave lies devastated by the infernos over the past two weeks.
The move has yet to be confirmed by the PGA Tour but both Sports Illustrated and Golfweek reported the relocation as pending.
Torrey Pines hosts the Farmers Insurance Open this week, which a number of stars, including Xander Schauffele and Collin Morikawa, have withdrawn from.
The PGA Tour moved Tiger Woods’ Genesis Invitational due to the Los Angeles wildfires
Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego has reportedly been chosen as the replacement venue
Other venues, including PGA West near Palm Springs and TPC Scottsdale, which hosts the WM Phoenix Open the week prior to the Genesis, are said to have been considered as alternate venues.
TPC Scottsdale located in Arizona had first been mooted as a potential replacement venue by Golf Digest, with it suggested the course could be in line to pull double duty with the WM Phoenix Open scheduled to be held on the Stadium Course the week prior.
It wouldn’t be the first time a golf course has hosted back-to-back events on the Tour. In 2020, Muirfield Village hosted the Workday Charity Open and the Memorial Tournament in consecutive weeks.
The Genesis, formerly known as the Los Angeles Open, is one of the elevated signature events on the PGA Tour’s calendar with a $20million prize purse.
The tournament was the site of Woods’ PGA Tour debut as a high school student in 1992 and the 49-year-old has hosted the tournament since 2019.
Established in 1926 in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, Riviera has played host to a PGA Tour event every year since 1973 with the exception of 1983 and 1998.
Tiger Woods had been scheduled to host the PGA Tour event at Riviera Country Club
Now, 2025 will also go down as an exception with the devastating wildfires forcing the PGA Tour to be absent from the near-100-year-old course.
The once luxurious and glamorous Pacific Palisades enclave has been completely razed after a catastrophic blaze – one of the six to have torn through Los Angeles – reduced multi-million-dollar homes to piles of rubble and left the neighborhood in a smoldering apocalyptic hellscape.
Riviera is also slated to host the 2026 US Women’s Open, the golf events for the LA 2028 Olympics and the 2031 US Open.
It also hosted the Los Angeles Open in 1929, 1930 and from 1945-53, along with the 1948 US Open and the PGA Championship in 1983 and 1995.
