Famed Riviera Country Club is the annual host for the Genesis Invitational on the PGA Tour, except for a one-off at Torrey Pines due to the 2025 wildfires in Los Angeles. It returned in 2026, a year that will also see the iconic course host a women’s major for the first time.
Riviera is a classic course that is a favorite among pretty much everyone on Tour, as well as those lucky enough to play the private club. The golf course measures 7,383 yards and will play as a par 71. Architectural credit goes to G.C.Thomas, Jr. and W.P. Bell.
Riviera Country Club ranks third in the state of California in the latest Golfweek’s Best 2025: Top private golf courses in every state list. It also checks in at No. 17 on the Golfweek’s Best 2025: Top 200 Classic Courses in the U.S. list.
Previous championships at Riviera Country Club1995 PGA Championship1983 PGA Championship1948 U.S. Open2012 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf ChampionshipFuture championships at Riviera Country Club2026 U.S. Women’s Open
In 2026, the club will celebrate its 100th year and one big way to commemorate a nice, round number like that will be with the playing of the U.S. Women’s Open, the first women’s championship to be held there.
“We always sought majors,” Megan Watanabe, the first female president of the club, told the Associated Press. Her family bought the property in 1989. “Because we never hosted a women’s championship, it made sense. Also for the Olympics. I wanted the women to be comfortable and experience Riviera before the Olympics.”
2028 Olympics
Speaking of the Olympics, the men’s and women’s golf competitions will be held at Riv in 2028, when the city of Los Angeles hosts the Summer Games for a third time. It’ll be the fourth playing of golf since the sport was brought back to the Olympics in 2016. Riviera was announced as host in 2017.
2031 U.S. Open
Just after the 2023 U.S. Open was played at Los Angeles Country Club, the U.S. Golf Association announced plans to return to Southern California.
Eighty-three years after Ben Hogan won a U.S. Open at Riviera, the men’s national championship returns to the storied venue.
The 2031 U.S. Open will be the fifth USGA championship held at the club. Riviera has also hosted the 1998 U.S. Senior Open and the 2017 U.S. Amateur.