Even though nothing has been officially announced by the PGA Tour, discussions are reportedly underway to consider moving the Genesis Invitational, hosted by Tiger Woods, to the calendar as fires continue to ravage Los Angeles County.
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After three days of fierce fighting, the fire is still not under control in Los Angeles. There have already been 11 deaths and nearly 200,000 people have been evacuated from the City of Angels, which has become a veritable hell.
The apocalyptic images circulating on social media attest to the dramatic situation. It is the most devastating fire in the history of the United States.
Under these conditions, how can we consider playing a professional golf tournament in Pacific Palisades (see the video below) where the Riviera Country Club course is located, one of the most affected neighborhoods along with Malibu and Hollywood?
This is the question that the organizers and the PGA Tour are asking themselves. “We continue to monitor the situation and we think first of the protection and health of the people affected …”, wrote the management of the 3rd Signature Event of the season normally scheduled in a month (February 13 to 16).
If the decision is made to postpone the event, it is rumored that the TPC Scottsdale, which hosts the Waste Management Phoenix Open the week before, will host an additional event in the process.
Eldrick Tont Woods, better known as Tiger Woods (Cypress, December 30, 1975), is an American golfer.
Considered one of the best golfers of all time, as well as the best of the modern era, in his twenty-year career he has won 110 professional tournaments, including 15 majors, making him the most successful player in history; he has held the first position in the OWG world ranking for a total of 683 weeks, of which 281 consecutive (from June 12, 2005 to October 30, 2010), and is the only golfer to have won all four major tournaments of the modern era in the span of a single year (between 2000 and 2001).
In 2014 he became the first sportsman in the world to have exceeded one billion dollars in earnings between victories and endorsements. He was later surpassed by Michael Jordan and his net worth is estimated to be $1.8 billion as of 2023, making him the second highest-paid athlete of all time.[6] In 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States.
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