{"id":468354,"date":"2026-02-14T14:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T14:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/468354\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T14:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T14:32:09","slug":"return-to-riviera-genesis-invitational-field-set-for-second-signature-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/468354\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to Riviera: Genesis Invitational field set for second signature event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year after being <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/news\/the-tougher-the-better-players-try-to-embrace-the-brutal-torrey-pines-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">held at Torrey Pines\u2019 South Course <\/a>due to the LA wildfires, the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/pga-tour\/2026\/the-genesis-invitational\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Genesis Invitational <\/a>returns to Riviera Country Club Pacific Palisades, California.<\/p>\n<p>Ludvig \u00c5berg, who has had a slow start to his 2026 season on Tour, is the defending champion. He beat Maverick McNealy by a stroke a year ago to win the signature event.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament brings in 41 of the top 50-ranked players in the world, including \u00c5berg who sits No. 20 in the most recent <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.owgr.com\/current-world-ranking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Official World Golf Ranking.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at the initial full field for the PGA Tour\u2019s sixth event of the season:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">41 of the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking are featured in next week\u2019s The Genesis Invitational, including 18 of the top 20<\/p>\n<p>Field for The Genesis Invitational: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UR5FBNGVoQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/UR5FBNGVoQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PGA TOUR Communications (@PGATOURComms) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOURComms\/status\/2022437067322749364?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Max Homa, Tom Kim, Adam Scott and Sahith Theegala will play next week thanks to sponsor exemptions. <\/p>\n<p>Riviera will be host to this year\u2019s U.S. Women\u2019s Open and the 2028 Olympic golf competition. The course was designed by George C. Thomas Jr. and William P. Bell. <\/p>\n<p>It has hosted three men\u2019s majors (the 1948 U.S. Open and the 1983 and 1995 PGA Championships). It will be the site of the 2031 U.S. Open.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the Genesis was played at Riviera it was Hideki Matsuyama edging out Will Zalatoris and Luke List by three strokes in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>                                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A year after being held at Torrey Pines\u2019 South Course due to the LA wildfires, the Genesis Invitational&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-468354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}