PGA Genesis Invitational Hosts Torrey Pines Likely
PGA Genesis Invitational Hosts Torrey Pines Likely
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Golf Week reported on the 22nd (Korea time) that Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, southern California, is likely to be an alternative venue for the PGA Tour Genesis Invitational, which decided to change the venue due to forest fires.
The PGA Tour Farmers Insurance Open will be held for four days from the 23rd at Torrey Pines Golf Course.
The PGA Tour contacted Marty Gossic, head of tournament operations at the Farmers Insurance Open, last week to discuss holding the Genesis Invitational at the Torrey Pines Golf Course, local newspaper The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
Koshichi said, "There have been discussions," but added, "We haven't signed a contract yet. Nothing has been confirmed."
Torrey Pines Golf Course is considered a very suitable golf course to hold PGA Tour events.
Gallery movement is sufficiently secured on the discriminating course difficulty.
By hosting the Farmers Insurance Open every year, he has also accumulated course management and tournament management know-how suitable for the PGA Tour tournament.
He also has a special relationship with Tiger Woods of the U.S., who hosts the Genesis Invitational.
Woods won the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines Golf Course seven times.
He also won the US Open here, and the Torrey Pines Golf Course was called Tiger Woods' Garden.
The Farmers Insurance Open will be played between Torrey Pines South Course and North Course, but if the Genesis Invitational is held here, only the South Course will be used.
The South Course, which hosted the U.S. Open twice in 2008 and 2021, has a longer battlefield and higher difficulty than the North Course.
The Riviera Country Club near Los Angeles, where the Genesis Invitational is originally held, is in an unprecedented wildfire-hit area that has hit the Los Angeles area. 먹튀검증
The Riviera Country Club has avoided forest fires, but decided to change the venue of the tournament because it was deemed inappropriate to hold the tournament like a festival in the middle of a disaster area.
In addition to the Torrey Pines Golf Course, the tournament organizing committee is reportedly considering PGA West in Lakinta, a resort city south of Los Angeles, and TPC Scottsdale, Arizona as alternative venues.
PGA West is the host of the American Express and TPC Scottsdale is the WM Phoenix Open.
The American Express ended on the 20th, and the WM Phoenix Open will be held just before the Genesis Invitational.
PGA West and TPC Scottsdale are different in that they are built in the desert, and the Torrey Pines Golf Course is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean.
The Riviera Country Club is not in contact with the sea like the Torrey Pines Golf Course, but it is close enough to the sea that the winds from the sea affect the game.