Woodlands, Texas | The older you get, the harder the change becomes. But the little ones adapt to a new environment as if they were wearing new shoes. Perhaps this is why younger players on the LPGA Tour, even those who had the privilege of jumping to Poppie’s Pond in the California desert in the past, have either embraced Chevron’s championship move to Texas or shrugged it off as a fact of life.
“I can’t lie and say I don’t miss Palm Springs, just because I’ve been going there for a long time and the history of the place, but so far, my time here has been great,” said Nelly Korda afterward. He played a few rounds at Carlton Woods, the golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus and now host of The Chevron Championships, formerly called ANA (and Kraft and Colgate – but always known as Dinah Shore after the woman who started it).
There is an illustration of his religion with a list of past champions on a sad little plaque behind the 18th green stand, but other than that, the page has been turned and this master group…