LPGA Tour: Chevron change ANA as sponsor of opening girls’s main and improve prize purse

The Chevron Championship will kick off the 2022 girls’s main golf season, having beforehand been named the ANA Inspiration; Event prize purse to extend from $3.1million to $5million from subsequent yr

Patty Tavatanakit gained the ANA Inspiration in 2021

The opening girls’s main of the yr could have a brand new sponsor and see its prize purse improve by over 60 per cent from subsequent season.

The occasion, beforehand generally known as the ANA Inspiration and the primary of 5 girls’s majors within the calendar yr, will now be generally known as The Chevron Championship as a part of a six-year settlement with the LPGA Tour.

The prize fund will soar from $3.1million to $5million and stay in its conventional slot within the calendar subsequent yr, going down at Mission Hills Nation Membership in Rancho Mirage, California from March 31-April 3, 2022.

Mission Hills Nation Membership will host the occasion for the ultimate time in 2022

Event officers plan to maneuver the occasion to a later date within the spring from 2023 and relocate to a brand new venue, more likely to be within the Houston space, with the following host course to be introduced within the coming months.

Mollie Marcoux Samaan, LPGA Commissioner, stated: “one other main world firm to our portfolio of sponsors that believes within the energy of the LPGA to encourage girls leaders, to showcase human efficiency on the highest degree and to spotlight the significance of variety and inclusion in all aspects of life, is really game-changing for us.”

As a part of the settlement, the most important will function a particular Participant Advisory Board to assist be sure that occasion helps and attracts the main LPGA Tour gamers and they’re on the coronary heart of our future plans and developments for the Championship.

Lydia Ko, a Participant Director on the LPGA Board of Administrators and the 2016 Chevron Championship winner, stated: “Having a worldwide firm like Chevron to help girls’s golf is basically thrilling for everybody concerned with the LPGA. Their aspirations for rising this main along with the LPGA and IMG are superb for the way forward for our Tour.”