Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California. (Photo: Todd Kelly/Golfweek)
The course is well known for Ben Hogan, and has been called “Hogan’s Alley” (a moniker shared with Colonial Country Club in Texas) after he won the 1948 U.S. Open. Hogan won the L.A. Open three times in all, twice (1947, 1948) at Riviera.
Seventeen golfers have won the now-Genesis Invitational more than once. Macdonald Smith (1928, 1929, 1932, 1934) and Lloyd Mangrum (1949, 1951, 1953, 1956) each won it four times. Ben Hogan (1942, 1947, 1948), Arnold Palmer (1963, 1966, 1967) and Bubba Watson (2014, 2016, 2018) each have three wins. But in terms of the most wins at Riviera, Hogan (including his U.S. Open win), Mangrum and Watson are tied with three.
Hogan earned $2,000 for his 1948 U.S. Open victory. The Genesis Invitational now has a total purse of $12 million, with $2,160,000 going to the winner.
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