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The Chevron Championship is formally transferring to Houston’s public Memorial Park Golf Course this spring.
The LPGA Tour’s first main of the season for the previous three years was held at The Club at Carlton Woods exterior Houston.
The event is scheduled for April 23-26. The municipal course additionally hosts the PGA Tour’s Houston Open, scheduled for March 26-29, which means the LPGA occasion can reap the benefits of the grandstands already in place and different tournament-ready situations.
‘Moving the Chevron Championship to Memorial Park Golf Course strengthens that imaginative and prescient,’ LPGA commissioner Craig Kessler mentioned in a news launch. ‘It brings the occasion nearer to the center of Houston, connecting extra followers and communities to our athletes, and serving to guarantee this main … continues to shine as one of many sport’s most significant phases.’
Before relocating to the Houston space in 2023, the event was performed in Rancho Mirage, Calif. It has been a serious since 1983 and beforehand was often known as the Dinah Shore Open with Nabisco amongst its title sponsors.
Mao Saigo of Japan is the defending champion.
The custom of the winner leaping into the pond by the 18th gap, which started in California and continued at Carlton Woods, will seemingly finish as there isn’t a pond at Memorial Park.
–Field Level Media