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The Genesis Invitational
February 13 – 16, 2020.
Tiger Woods has committed to play The Genesis Invitational in
2020 at The Riviera Country Club.
In 2016, the PGA Tour’s long-running event (the Northern Trust
Open) at Pacific Palisades’ Riviera Country Club became known
as the Genesis Open. Now it will be known as “The Genesis In-
vitational”.
PGA TOUR Commissioner Jay Monahan recently announced
that the Genesis Invitational will receive elevated status on
TOUR with the implementation of several significant enhance-
ments, beginning in 2020.
Joined by tournament host Tiger Woods and Euisun Chung,
Manfred Fitzgerald and Erwin Raphael of title sponsor Genesis
at The Riviera Country Club, Monahan highlighted several im-
portant changes for the tournament moving forward:
∙ The Genesis Invitational will move to invitational qualifying
status and reduce its field from 144 players to 120;
∙ The champion will receive a three-year PGA TOUR exemption,
an increase by one year over the standard winner’s exemption on
TOUR;
∙ The purse will grow to $9.3 million, among the largest on TOUR J.B. Holmes
and an increase of $1.9 million over the 2019 purse. The winner’s
share will be $1.674 million; MasterCard. Jack Nicklaus’ Memorial Tournament began award-
∙ In collaboration with the tournament’s broadcast partners, rec- ing a three-year exemption and elevated purse in 2016 and Palm-
ognition of Woods’ vast accomplishments as a player and his er’s tournament did so the following year.
philanthropic work through the TGR Foundation will be ampli- Genesis Motors is the luxury car spinoff company of Hyundai
fied through the telecasts and promotion of the tournament. Motor America, which took over as the title sponsor in 2017 of
These elements will put the Genesis Invitational in select com- the tournament that debuted in Los Angeles in 1926. Northern
pany on TOUR alongside the Memorial Tournament presented Trust was the title sponsor at Riviera for nine years.
by Nationwide and the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Tiger plan on being back and the fans will be out in droves. Shut-
tles should be jam packed every day and Uber driv-
ers were smiling ear to ear.
www.genesisinvitational.com

제네시스 인비테이셔널
2020년 2월 13일–16일
타이거 우즈는 2020년에 리비에라 컨트리 클럽
에서 제네시스 인비테이셔널에 참가 하기로 약
속했다.
2016년 PGA투어 퍼시픽팔리사데스 리비에라
CC(Pacific Palisades’s Riviera Country Club)
의 오래된 이벤트(노던트러스트오픈)가 제네시
스 오픈으로 알려지게 됐다. 이제 그것은 “제네
시스 인비테이셔널”으로 알려질 것이다.
PGA TOUR의 제이 모나한 커미셔너는 최근 제
네시스 인비테이셔널이 2020년부터 몇 가지 중
요한 개선책을 적용하면서 투어에서 높은 지위를

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