PGA Tour looking to move 2025 Genesis Invitational to Torrey Pines
Jan 21, 2025
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) -- The PGA Tour might move the 2025 Genesis Invitational to the Torrey Pines Golf Course next month, according to a report by Golfweek.
The tournament was scheduled to take place from Feb. 13 to 16 at The Riviera Country Club, located in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.
However, due to the recent wildfires that devastated the greater metropolitan area earlier this month -- the largest of which was the Palisades Fire -- the Tour announced last Thursday that the Genesis Invitational would be forced to relocate.
Among the top runners to host? Torrey Pines Golf Course in La Jolla, which is already set to host the annual Farmers Insurance Open Wednesday through Saturday.
"We're working with the PGA Tour as are other folks just to understand how to help that tournament and that group with their situation, and the city's raised our hand to say, 'Hey, we're here to be an option if you need us,'" said Marty Gorsich, the CEO of The Century Club, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that organizes the Farmers Insurance Open.
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This will give Torrey Pines two PGA Tour events in just less than a month.
The two driving factors behind finalizing the next location of the Genesis Invitational are to keep the tournament in California and in close proximity to its original host site. San Diego is just 125 miles south of Los Angeles.
"To me, part of the special is a lot more about the occasion, and feeling like The Century Club and what we're here to do is to help charity in our community," said Gorsich. "To be able to do it with that as the backdrop -- that that was the reason we all came together quickly to pull this off -- that would actually add a little push to it for us."
The Genesis Invitational is one of eight signature events put on by the PGA Tour. In the immediate future, though, San Diego is preparing to host the Farmers Insurance Open, which tees off Wednesday through Saturday.
FOX 5/KUSI's Julian Del Gaudio contributed to this report.