Tournament information | |
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Location | The Woodlands, Texas |
Established |
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Course(s) | The Club at Carlton Woods Jack Nicklaus Signature Course |
Par | 72 |
Length | 6,824 yards (6,240 m) |
Organized by | |
Tour(s) | LPGA Tour |
Format | Stroke play - 72 holes |
Prize fund | US$7.9 million |
Month played | April |
Tournament record score | |
Aggregate | 269 Dottie Pepper (1999) |
To par | −19 Dottie Pepper (1999) |
Current champion | |
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Location in Texas |
The Chevron Championship is a professional women's golf tournament. An event on the LPGA Tour, it is one of the tour's five major championships, and has traditionally been the first of the season since its elevation to major status in 1983. Since 2023, it has been played on the Jack Nicklaus Signature Course at The Club at Carlton Woods in The Woodlands, Texas.
Founded in 1972 by singer and actress Dinah Shore and Colgate-Palmolive chairman David Foster, it was played at the Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California from its inception through 2022. In 2023, the championship was played in The Woodlands, Texas for the first time at The Club at Carlton Woods - Jack Nicklaus Signature Course. Sometimes referred to as The Dinah Shore in deference to its founder, the tournament has had many official sponsored titles, all of which included Shore's name until 2000. The tournament relocated to the Greater Houston area in 2023 due to a new sponsorship agreement with Chevron Corporation.
The championship's time at Mission Hills is associated with several traditions; in 1988, Amy Alcott established a tradition of the event's champion diving into the pond that surrounds the 18th hole (a tradition that would be carried over to The Woodlands), while an annual women's festival that originally coincidined with the championship has been held since 1991, attracting a large number of female tourists to the Rancho Mirage area.
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