LPGA Tour
THE CHEVRON CHAMPIONSHIP
Site: Houston.
Course: Memorial Park GC. Yardage: 6,811. Par: 72.
Prize money: $8 million. Winner’s share: $1.2 million.
Television: Thursday-Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 6-8 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 1-3 p.m. (NBC), 3-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Sunday, 1:30-2 p.m. (Peacock), 2-5:30 p.m. (NBC).
Defending champion: Mao Saigo.
Race to CME Globe leader: Nelly Korda.
Last week: Hannah Green won the JM Eagle LA Championship.
Notes: This is the first of five majors on the LPGA schedule. … After three years at Carlton Woods, the tournament is moving to Memorial Park. The public course near downtown Houston just hosted the PGA Tour’s Houston Open one month ago. … The 132-player field has eight amateurs in keeping with tradition. That includes top-ranked amateur Kiara Romero and Asterisk Talley, the 17-year-old who already has played two LPGA events this year. … Five of the last six winners of The Chevron were first-time major champions. The exception was Nelly Korda in 2024. … To keep with tradition of the winner leaping into “Poppie’s Pond” when it was at Mission Hills in California, Memorial Park is adding a pond down the right side of the 18th. The winner will jump into a makeshift pool for this year until the change is completed. … Hannah Green joins Hyo Joo Kim as multiple winners on the LPGA Tour this season. Last year, it took until October to have a multiple winner.
