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The iconic Riviera Country Club is being threatened whereas within the obligatory evacuation zone for the Pacific Palisades fireplace northwest of Los Angeles.
Riviera is the venue for the PGA Tour’s Genesis Invitational, the annual event hosted by Tiger Woods that’s scheduled to be performed Feb. 13-16.
The Pacific Palisades fireplace started Tuesday morning and shortly unfold to cowl greater than 15,000 acres whereas destroying greater than 100 properties and threatening numerous extra. Among these is Riviera, with footage on social media Wednesday displaying the course in entrance of the thick black smoke of the wildfires within the background.
A reporter masking this week’s Sony Open in Honolulu mentioned that he had obtained phrase that Riviera had not been harmed by the fires as of Wednesday afternoon.
“It’s sad because I played with four guys from LA today, and they’re stressed out,” Keegan Bradley mentioned from the Sony Open. “Their families had to evacuate, and their homes could be gone. It’s sad.”
The fireplace was zero % continued as of Wednesday afternoon native time.
Established in 1926 within the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, Riviera has performed host to a PGA Tour occasion each years since 1973 excluding 1983 and 1998. It additionally hosted the Los Angeles Open in 1929, 1930 and from 1945-53, together with the 1948 U.S. Open and the PGA Championship in 1983 and 1995.
The course is slated to host the 2026 U.S. Women’s Open, the 2028 Summer Olympics and the 2031 U.S. Open.
–Field Level Media