HOUSTON — The Chevron Championship will transfer the LPGA’s first main of the yr to Memorial Park, simply 4 weeks after the PGA Tour’s Houston Open was held at Houston’s public course.
Chevron had been held at The Membership at Carleton Woods, a Jack Nicklaus suburban membership about 40 miles north of Houston, since shifting in 2023. The transfer to Memorial Park introduced the match nearer to Chevron’s headquarters and downtown Houston.
“For greater than a century, Houston has been on the coronary heart of Chevron’s historical past,” mentioned Laura Lane, Chevron’s chief govt officer. “Working with Memorial Park permits us to honor its heritage whereas advancing our dedication to girls’s golf and giving again to the neighborhood.”
Tom Doak redesigned Memorial Park and returned it to host the Houston Open in 2020. It’s going to first be held within the fall of the PGA Tour, then transfer to spring 2024.
The Houston Open will likely be held from March twenty sixth to twenty ninth. The Chevron Championship will likely be held from April twenty third to twenty sixth. It was not clear whether or not the LPGA would use the infrastructure in place for PGA Tour occasions.
In 2022, Chevron will take over because the title sponsor of the foremost, which has been held at Mission Hills Nation Membership in Rancho Mirage, California since 1972 (and have become a serious in 1983). It was the one LPGA main that didn’t transfer, with the legendary custom of the winner leaping right into a poppy pond close to the 18th inexperienced.
Chevron tried to revive the custom of leaping into the murky lake to the left of the 18th inexperienced at Carleton Woods. There will likely be no water at Memorial Park for about 18 days.
“Our partnership with Chevron continues to set the usual for what it means to put money into girls’s golf, not simply as a championship, however as a platform to encourage and develop the sport,” LPGA Commissioner Craig Kessler mentioned in a press release.
“Relocating the Chevron Championship to Memorial Park Golf Course strengthens that imaginative and prescient. It brings the occasion nearer to the guts of Houston, connects our athletes with extra followers and communities, and ensures this main continues to shine as one of many sport’s most significant venues.”
