The first women's major of 2026 goes to its second day. The 2026 Chevron Championship has a stellar field on a solid golf course, where the first 18 holes were played in mud-ball conditions.
The Chevron was first played in 1972 as the Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle. It became an LPGA major in 1983 as the Nabisco Dinah Shore. It was later called the Nabisco Championship, then the Kraft Nabisco Championship and then the ANA Inspiration before Chevron signed on as title sponsor.
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Nelly Korda walked off the golf course late Thursday afternoon pleased with every part of her game. The world No. 2's opening 7-under 65 is her second-lowest round opening round at a major championship, behind a 64 at the 2022 Evian. She leads by two over former Chevron champion Patty Tavatanakit and Somi Lee.
A rain-soaked Memorial Park played long, just the way Korda likes it. She began the day with a long putt to save par and got stronger as the round progressed. On her second nine, she hit a 6-iron into the par-3 second for birdie to 4 feet, and a 5-iron into the par-3 seventh to 5 feet. She birdied four of the five par 5s, a key part to her two previous major wins. She took 24 putts on the day.
"What was I impressed with? Overall, everything," she said.
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 runs through Sunday will be at Memorial Park, a municipal track that ranks eighth on Golfweek's best public access courses in Texas.
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