Opening day at The Chevron Championship, the primary seasonal main on the LPGA Tour. After saying goodbye final yr to the Mission Hills Nation Membership of Rancho Mirage, a path that had accompanied it within the first 51 editions, the match witnessed at the moment the primary spherical performed on the course of the Carlton Woods Membership, in Texas.
The Chevron Championship, outcomes
Peyiun Chen from Taiwan got here out with the most effective rating from the primary 18 holes in Texas. Contemporary from fourth place in Honolulu final week and going near touching up the most effective results of his profession, he began very robust on the massive stage: six birdies, three of which have been consecutive, to make up for the bogey within the opening and spherical concluded in 67 photographs for the rating by -5.
Behind her, she chases a gaggle of 5 gamers at -4, together with very high-sounding names: fluctuating however efficient spins for the Individuals Nelly Korda and Lilia Vu (each capable of make up for 3 bogeys), extra secure these of the Japanese Ayaka Furue , the Australian Stephanie Kyriacou and the US Marina Alex.
The Chevron Championship is one in all 5 main ladies’s golf tournaments on the LPGA Tour. It takes place yearly on the Mission Hills Nation Membership in Rancho Mirage, California till 2022 inclusive. In 2023, the match takes place for the primary time on The Membership at Carlton Woods course.
Based in 1972 by Dinah Shore, it was added to the majors in 1983. It has modified sponsors usually since 1983. The match weekend continues to be sometimes called Dinah Shore Weekend, though Shore’s identify was dropped from the match identify shortly after her dying in 1984.
This match was born in the course of the motion to demand equal sports activities bonuses between women and men within the early Nineteen Seventies, carried by a present of feminist calls for. Throughout the first version, the endowment supplied by the corporate Colgate Palmolive, was 110,000 {dollars}.
An actual monetary evolution for ladies’s golf on the time. The arrival of the sponsor Kraft Nabisco will make it attainable to extend this endowment as much as 2 million {dollars} in 2014. Because of the Japanese firm ANA, the endowment crosses a brand new ceiling to be elevated to three million {dollars} in 2019 To any extent further, and in reference to a change of accomplice, the oil firm Chevron, this Main match reaches 5 million {dollars}, an quantity that solely the US Ladies’s Open has supplied up to now.
