Conversations continue to circle back to the threat of LIV Golf to the PGA Tour even on the eve of the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club.
Tiger Woods will play in his first golf tournament since July and still has issues with his right ankle and heel two years after a nearby horrible car crash.
The new PGA Tour schedule has elevated tournaments with bigger purses, creating incentive for the best golfers to resist defecting to cash-flush LIV. The purse at the Genesis Invitational — one of 13 elevated events in 2023 — has increased from $12 million to $20 million and the combined purse for the elevated events is $315 million, up nearly 50% from last year’s $214.7 million.Some of the designated events could change next year.
Woods grew up in Cypress, roughly an hour’s drive from Riviera. His dad took him to tournaments at the course when he was a child. He made his PGA Tour debut as a 16-year-old amateur at the 1992 L.A. Open at Riviera and missed the cut by six strokes. Woods, who said Tuesday that his right ankle is his primary health concern, played the first 16 holes in a practice round early Wednesday and did not limp through the front nine. He began to favor his right leg as the round wore on and walked slowly to the clubhouse after picking up his ball on the 16th hole.Golfers wait out a high wind delay during the third round of the Genesis Invitational on Feb. 20, 2021, at Riviera Country Club.
“Conditions were pretty tough out there this morning and it looks like the weather forecast is going to improve as the week goes on,” McIlroy said of his practice round. “Hopefully that’s the last of the wind that we have to deal with.” Woods — who naturally is a sentimental pick to at least make the cut — likes Viktor Hovland, a Norwegian who has finished tied for fourth and fifth in two starts on the American mainland.
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