2026 Chevron Championship leaderboard, live updates for LPGA major

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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