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The Genesis Invitational

2022-02-17 · The Riviera Country Club

Winner
Joaquin Niemann
Winning score
-19
Field
121
Field strength
+0.401 SG

The 2021-2022 The Genesis Invitational was played at The Riviera Country Club, starting 17 February 2022. Joaquin Niemann won at 19 under par (265), 2 strokes ahead of Cameron Young. The winning card was 63, 63, 68 and 71, and the win paid $2,160,000. Cameron Young and Collin Morikawa tied for second. 121 players started the event. The field averaged +0.401 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 88% of the players. The full leaderboard below lists every player's finish position, round scores and total to par. Every figure on this page comes from the PGA Tour's published final leaderboard for the event — nothing here is estimated or modelled.

Final leaderboard

Top 20 of 121. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.

Model score

Backtest · reconstructed

Our course-fit model re-run as it would have seen this week — using only data that existed before the first tee shot — then compared with how the 75 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Bgrade
Rank correlation
+0.351
Top-20 hit rate
40%
Top-10 avg model rank
21.9

Grade is this event’s percentile (70th) against every other event we have scored — not an absolute pass mark. Rank correlation runs −1 to +1, where 0 is a coin flip and a full-field golf model landing near +0.35 is a genuine read.

Who the model liked

Its top 10, and where they finished.

PlayerModelFinish
Jon Rahm1st21st
Patrick Cantlay2nd33rd
Xander Schauffele3rd13th
Justin Thomas4th6th
Rory McIlroy5th10th
Viktor Hovland6th4th
Collin Morikawa7th2nd
Hideki Matsuyama8th39th
Cameron Smith9th33rd
Abraham Ancer10th39th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Cameron Young56th2nd(54)
Si Woo Kim22nd73rd(+51)
Sepp Straka65th15th(50)
C.T. Pan57th9th(48)
Danny Lee69th21st(48)
Robert MacIntyre62nd15th(47)
Peter Malnati71st26th(45)
Mito Pereira59th15th(44)
Sam Ryder70th26th(44)
Charley Hoffman30th71st(+41)

One known caveat. Player stats, form and course history are all restricted to what existed before this event. The course archetype is not — it is derived from the venue’s full history, including this edition. That flatters the model slightly and equally at every venue. How the model works.

The venue

This event was played at The Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the The Genesis Invitational in 2021-2022?

Joaquin Niemann won the 2021-2022 The Genesis Invitational at The Riviera Country Club, finishing 19 under par.

Where was the 2021-2022 The Genesis Invitational played?

The 2021-2022 The Genesis Invitational was played at The Riviera Country Club, starting 17 February 2022.

What was the winning score at the 2021-2022 The Genesis Invitational?

The winning score was 19 under par (265 strokes), posted by Joaquin Niemann.

How many players were in the The Genesis Invitational field?

121 players started the 2021-2022 The Genesis Invitational. Every one of them appears on the leaderboard below.

Where these numbers come from

Finishes, round scores and to-par figures are the PGA Tour's own published final leaderboard for this event. Nothing is estimated or interpolated — where the tour published no value, this page shows a gap rather than a guess. Full sourcing notes are on the methodology page, and every stat name is defined in the glossary.