Tournaments / 2026
The Genesis Invitational
2026-02-19 · The Riviera Country Club
- Winner
- Jacob Bridgeman
- Winning score
- -18
- Field
- 72
- Field strength
- +0.413 SG
The 2026 The Genesis Invitational was played at The Riviera Country Club, starting 19 February 2026. Jacob Bridgeman won at 18 under par (266), 1 stroke ahead of Kurt Kitayama. The winning card was 66, 64, 64 and 72, and the win paid $4,000,000. Kurt Kitayama and Rory McIlroy tied for second. 72 players started the event. The field averaged +0.413 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 99% 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 72. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Jacob Bridgeman
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 266
- Kurt Kitayama
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 267
- Rory McIlroy
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 267
- Adam Scott
- Pos
- 4
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 63
- Total
- 268
- Aldrich Potgieter
- Pos
- 5
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 269
- Jake Knapp
- Pos
- 6
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 271
- Cameron Young
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 272
- Collin Morikawa
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 272
- Ryan Fox
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 272
- Tommy Fleetwood
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 272
- Xander Schauffele
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 272
- Alex Noren
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 273
- Jordan Spieth
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 273
- Min Woo Lee
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 273
- Scottie Scheffler
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 273
- Akshay Bhatia
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 274
- Marco Penge
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 274
- Pierceson Coody
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 274
- Sam Stevens
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 274
- Ludvig Åberg
- Pos
- T20
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 275
Model score
Backtest · reconstructedOur 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 51 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.291
- Top-20 hit rate
- 50%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 17.5
Grade is this event’s percentile (50th) 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.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Scottie Scheffler | 1st | 12th |
| Rory McIlroy | 2nd | 2nd |
| Tommy Fleetwood | 3rd | 7th |
| Patrick Cantlay | 4th | 37th |
| Robert MacIntyre | 5th | 20th |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 6th | 28th |
| Collin Morikawa | 7th | 7th |
| Ben Griffin | 8th | 41st |
| Si Woo Kim | 9th | 34th |
| Viktor Hovland | 10th | 41st |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Aldrich Potgieter | 47th | 5th(−42) |
| Sepp Straka | 11th | 50th(+39) |
| Marco Penge | 51st | 16th(−35) |
| Patrick Cantlay | 4th | 37th(+33) |
| Ben Griffin | 8th | 41st(+33) |
| Viktor Hovland | 10th | 41st(+31) |
| Ryan Fox | 34th | 7th(−27) |
| Sahith Theegala | 49th | 22nd(−27) |
| Adam Scott | 30th | 4th(−26) |
| Si Woo Kim | 9th | 34th(+25) |
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 2026?
- Jacob Bridgeman won the 2026 The Genesis Invitational at The Riviera Country Club, finishing 18 under par.
Where was the 2026 The Genesis Invitational played?
- The 2026 The Genesis Invitational was played at The Riviera Country Club, starting 19 February 2026.
What was the winning score at the 2026 The Genesis Invitational?
- The winning score was 18 under par (266 strokes), posted by Jacob Bridgeman.
How many players were in the The Genesis Invitational field?
- 72 players started the 2026 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.