Rain-soaked Chevron Championship course could be a paradise for bombers and mudders
Rain this week will make an already lenghty test longer for the LPGA players who are competing at Memorial Park for the first time in the Chevron Championship
HOUSTON —Memorial Park Golf Course is the new home of the Chevron Championship and while it’s fresh to the LPGA Tour, it’s not new to professional golf. MORE: Stacy Lewis bids farewell to major golf in her home state The public course has been home to the PGA Tour’s Texas Children’s Open since 2020, and Gary Woodland scored an emotional victory here last month. But there will certainly be differences to how it plays for the women compared to the men, and the rainy weather that drenched the course early in the week will be a contributing factor, too.
World No. 5 Hannah Green, who has won four worldwide tournaments this season and won captured last week’s JM Eagle LA Championship, is getting some valuable help on her bag this week from from her caddie, David Buhai, who looped for Karl Vilips during the PGA Tour event. Moriya Jutanugarn plays a shot from the bunker on the 10th hole during the practice round of the Chevron Championship.
Kenneth Richmond “It's playing tough. It's playing quite long. Obviously, this rain is not really helping either, making things a little bit more difficult for us,” Green said.
“I think it definitely feels like a major championship course. I hope fairways can at least firm up. I don't know if that will happen, but it will be interesting to see how they put the tee positions because some of the holes, depending on pin locations, could be quite tough.