Welcome to the first major on the LPGA’s 2026 schedule. It’s the Chevron Championship, being played in Texas for the fourth time.
The Chevron was first played in 1972 and it became an LPGA major in 1983.
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2026 Chevron Championship leaderboard
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Where to watch the 2026 Chevron Championship
NBC, Peacock and Golf Channel are teaming up on the live TV and streaming of the Chevron over the course of four days. Golf Channel has live coverage in two viewing windows for the first round:
Thursday, April 23: Golf Channel, 11 a.m. ET to 3 p.m. ET; 6 p.m. ET to 8 p.m. ET
Watch Golf Channel for free on Fubo
What’s the Chevron weather forecast?
There’s already been some storms in the Houston area this week. In fact, as Golfweek’s Beth Ann Nichols reported, the media center was cleared out for a second time in three days on Wednesday. According to accuweather, Thursday is looking better, with just a 25 percent chance of rain and a high of 82. Friday has about a 55 percent chance of rain with another high of 82. The weekend’s looking good with a high of 89 on Saturday for the third round and less than a 30 percent chance of rain. Sunday’s final round should see a high of 87 and about a 16 percent chance of rain.
Chevron raises LPGA major championship purse
For the second time in three days, an LPGA purse got a $1 million bump. After JM Eagle CEO Walter Wang’s surprise announcement in the booth over the weekend that the LA Championship purse was going up $1 million on the spot, Chevron made a similar move on Tuesday. The first LPGA major of the year will now feature a $9 million purse, an increase of $5.9 million since Chevron took over title sponsorship in 2022. Sunday’s winner will receive $1.35 million.
― Beth Ann Nichols
What happened in the 2025 Chevron Championship?
Last year saw the largest playoff in LPGA major championship history with Mao Saigo eventually coming out on top. Saigo outlasted four others in the bonus golf to become the fifth Japanese player to win a major.
Where is the Chevron Championship being played?
The Chevron Championship controversially moved from the Dinah Shore Tournament Course at 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.
The 2026 event, April 23-26, will be at Memorial Park, a municipal track that ranks eighth on Golfweek’s best public access courses in Texas.
One part of the course is certainly interesting. There’s a narrow creek nearer the far side of the property htat slithers to the left of No. 15 green, adding intrigue – if not normally an outright threat – to the shortest hole on the property. In an era in which driving length has earned much adulation and importance, it’s this tiny par 3 created by architect Tom Doak that likely will live rent-free in so many players’ heads during the Chevron Championship.
— Jason Lusk, Golfweek
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