The third gap at Torrey Pines’ South Course.
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After saying Riviera Nation Membership wouldn’t host the 2025 Genesis Invitational, the PGA Tour has discovered a brand new residence. And it’s a really acquainted one.
Torrey Pines Golf Course, in San Diego (the place the Tour is internet hosting a separate occasion this very week), will turn out to be the one-time host of the Genesis subsequent month. The Tour introduced the transfer — which had been reported earlier this week — throughout the third spherical of the Farmers Insurance coverage Open.
The Genesis has been performed within the larger Los Angeles space for practically the final 100 years, however current wildfires which have ravaged LA County pressured the match to be relocated for its scheduled week, Feb. 10-16.
As a lot as it could really feel repetitive to run the Tour again on the similar golf course simply two weeks later, there can be some apparent variations between this week and the Genesis week. Chief amongst them: Tiger Woods can be concerned. The match host hasn’t performed Torrey Pines since 2020, the place he completed T9 in what quantities to his final match in rivalry on the Tour.
Woods has a storied historical past on the course, together with his iconic 2008 U.S. Open victory in opposition to Rocco Mediate. Woods additionally received the Farmers Insurance coverage Open seven occasions, together with 4 in a row within the mid-2000s. It stays to be seen if he’ll really tee it up on the Torrey Pines Genesis occasion, however contemplating he tried enjoying the Genesis final yr whereas battling the flu, it stands to cause he’ll give it a go.
Notably, the occasion can even be performed completely on the South Course. This week’s Farmers Insurance coverage Open is performed on the North and South Programs at Torrey, tending to a a lot bigger subject (156) than the Genesis (80-ish). As you’ll be able to see within the scoring averages, the South Course sometimes performs roughly three strokes more durable than the North Course — in relation to par — so the Genesis will function 4 days of that take a look at reasonably than simply three.
It is going to additionally function a a lot stronger subject. The Genesis Invitational is a Signature Occasion, which implies it’s going to function a $20 million purse and a subject together with the highest 50 gamers from 2024. Which means we will count on Scottie Scheffler, Collin Morikawa and most of the finest gamers on the earth to play at Torrey Pines, one thing that isn’t the case this week. Morikawa was amongst a prolonged checklist of professionals who withdrew from the occasion this week.
The Tour announcement promised there can be a number of “Los Angeles-related aid initiatives” that week to learn these impacted by the wildfires. The Genesis plans to return to Riviera Nation Membership in 2026.
