Nelly Korda won the 2026 Chevron Championship and jumped into a makeshift pool on the side of the 18th green at Memorial Park in Houston. The next winner of the LPGA major will get to jump into an actual pond.
Golf course architect Tom Doak returned to help redo the 18th hole by adding a pond down the right side of the green.
It enables the winner to maintain the tradition of the major — which was played for some 50 years at Rancho Mirage in California — by jumping into the water. It’s not Poppie’s Pond, but it will have to do.
The 18th hole opened for public play over the weekend.
Memorial Park also hosts the Houston Open held two weeks before the Masters.
Gary Woodland won that event in April in dramatic fashion, capturing his first title in since his 2019 U.S. Open win at Pebble Beach. That triumph came weeks after Woodland revealed he was battling symptoms from PTSD after having a lesion removed from his brain.
