PGA Tour monitoring Los Angeles fires with Riviera hosting Genesis Invitational next month

The Los Angeles wildfires that person dispersed crossed the area could change the PGA Tour’s plans for adjacent month’s Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club.

According to the Wildfire Alliance, the Palisades fire, which started Tuesday, is already the astir destructive successful Los Angeles history.

Pacific Palisades is the location of Riviera Country Club, which hosts the Genesis Invitational, a signature Tour arena hosted by Tiger Woods.

On Thursday, the Tour sent a memo to players informing them that it has not made a determination astir perchance shifting either the day aliases location of the Genesis.

“At this point, it is premature to talk the imaginable effect connected the Genesis Invitational,” the Tour said successful the memo. “Although The Riviera Country Club has not been straight affected by the fires, our contiguous interest is the wellness and use of those successful the affected communities, including each our members who person ties to Southern California. We will support the rank updated arsenic the business develops.”

There are still aggregate fires raging crossed the Los Angeles Area.

According to the Associated Press, the fires person burned more than 10,000 structures and killed astatine slightest 10 people. The Palisades occurrence has burned complete 30 quadrate miles and is only 8 percent contained. Roughly 180,000 group are nether evacuation. The fires person dispersed complete an area that is larger than the metropolis of San Francisco.

The fires person already impacted different sports leagues. The NBA postponed the Los Angeles Lakers crippled connected Thursday night, and the NFL has moved Monday night’s NFC wild-card crippled from SoFi Stadium successful Englewood, Calif., to Glendale, Ariz.