It would be easy for desert golf fans to be a little smug about word that the Chevron Championship is moving to a new course in Houston after just three years.

After all, the tournament was played for 51 years at the same course in the Coachella Valley, the Dinah Shore Tournament Course at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage. When the major championship left the desert after the 2022 season, plenty of desert fans wagged their fingers at the LPGA, saying in essence the LPGA didn’t know what it was turning its back on in the pursuit of Chevron’s millions of sponsorship dollars.

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