{"id":114270,"date":"2026-01-07T16:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/114270\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T16:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:36:14","slug":"lpgas-first-major-of-season-moves-to-pga-tour-venue-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/114270\/","title":{"rendered":"LPGA’s first major of season moves to PGA Tour venue in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s official. The Chevron Championship will once again move, this time to a course that’s already on the PGA Tour calendar.<\/p>\n

The LPGA has announced that the first women\u2019s major of the season is headed to Houston’s Memorial Park Golf Course in April, as first reported by Golfweek<\/a>. The move puts the championship closer to Chevron\u2019s new corporate headquarters and downtown Houston.<\/p>\n

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The event, slated for April 23-26, will be held one month after the PGA Tour’s Texas Children’s Houston Open at Memorial Park, a municipal track that\u00a0ranks eighth on Golfweek’s best public access<\/a>\u00a0courses in Texas.<\/p>\n

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A general view of the second hole during the second round of the Texas Children’s Houston Open at Memorial Park Golf Course on March 29, 2024 in Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n

Memorial Park<\/a>\u00a0first hosted the Houston Open in 1947 and enjoyed a long stretch from 1951 to 1963. After undergoing a $34 million renovation, funded by the\u00a0Astros<\/a>\u00a0Golf Foundation and designed by Tom Doak, the tournament returned to Memorial Park in the fall of 2020.<\/p>\n

Chevron will work in collaboration with the Astros Golf Foundation and HNS Sports Group to put on the event. HNS Sports Group’s portfolio of events includes The Memorial, AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and Zurich Classic. Organizers say there wasn’t one driving force behind the decision to move, noting that they’ve received feedback about the event’s location for the past few years.<\/p>\n

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“Memorial Park offers a more central, accessible venue for fans, increased visibility for players, and a world-class course shaped by significant investment from the Astros Golf Foundation and the City of Houston,” tournament organizers said in a statement provided to Golfweek. “With our continued planned activations, a fan-friendly layout and proximity to Chevron headquarters, we believe it will deliver a great experience for players, fans and employees alike, all in service of our goal: continuing to elevate and grow the game.”<\/p>\n

The Chevron Championship controversially moved from the\u00a0Dinah Shore Tournament Course<\/a>\u00a0at Mission Hills in Rancho Mirage, California, to the Jack Nicklaus Signature Course at the Club at Carlton Woods in The Woodlands, Texas, in the spring of 2023.<\/p>\n

Steve Salzman, the club\u2019s CEO and general manager, told\u00a0Golfweek\u00a0several years ago that he hoped the tournament would be at Carlton Woods for the next 51 years, referring to the length of time the event was held at Mission Hills.<\/p>\n

There were still two years left on the contract with Carlton Woods.<\/p>\n

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Mao Saigo of Japan poses with the trophy after winning The Chevron Championship 2025 in a playoff at The Club at Carlton Woods on April 27, 2025 in The Woodlands, Texas.<\/p>\n

The 2025 Chevron, won by\u00a0Mao Saigo<\/a>, was clouded in controversy during the final round when Golf Twitter erupted as players \u2013 including Saigo \u2013 used the grandstand as a backstop when going for the 18th green in two. Ariya Jutanugarn actually hit the volunteer she was aiming at after her ball bounced off the grandstand.<\/p>\n

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The move to Memorial Park will enable organizers to take advantage of the blueprint that\u2019s already in place for the men\u2019s event and hopefully draw a larger crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cChevron\u2019s partnership continues to set a standard for what it means to invest in women\u2019s golf \u2014 not just as a championship, but as a platform to inspire and grow the game. Moving The Chevron Championship to Memorial Park Golf Course strengthens that vision,” said LPGA commissioner Craig Kessler in a release. “It brings the event closer to the heart of Houston, connecting more fans and communities to our athletes, and helping ensure this major \u2014 a tradition that began in 1972 \u2014 continues to shine as one of the game\u2019s most meaningful stages.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 18th at Memorial Park does not currently have a pond. Organizers say they’re exploring options to continue the traditional champion’s leap \u2013 which began spontaneously in 1988 \u2013 and will have more to announce at a later date.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: LPGA’s Chevron Championship moves to Houston’s Memorial Park<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s official. The Chevron Championship will once again move, this time to a course that’s already on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[50338,4904,50337,56,58,57,28604,28601,10518,50339,28606],"class_list":{"0":"post-114270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-astros-golf-foundation","9":"tag-downtown-houston","10":"tag-golfweek","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-headlines","13":"tag-houston-news","14":"tag-houston-open","15":"tag-memorial-park","16":"tag-pga-tour","17":"tag-the-astros-golf-foundation","18":"tag-the-chevron-championship"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}