A jump into Poppie's Pond. The Chervon Championship champion takes part in an annual tradition that involves doing something most golfers don't want their ball to do: get wet.
The winner of the LPGA's first major, the old Dinah Shore, gets their trophy and jumps -- with whoever they'd like -- into Poppie's Pond. The body of water dubbed Poppie's Pond has changed a few times in recent years. In 2026, the championship is played at Memorial Park Golf Course in Houston, with the course digging a hole into the ground and installing a temporary, smaller 4-foot-deep pool for the winner and their band to jump in as a celebration.
The Club at Carlton Woods, in nearby The Woodlands, had hosted the championship for the last several years, with the club portioning off a bit of the pond guarding the par-5 18th for the jump off a special temporary pier.
Up until the tournament's move to Texas, the event was played in the California desert at Mission Hills Country Club. Previously, it had been the only host of the tournament, and winners jumped into a special, sectioned-off portion of the hazard that guards the par-5 18th hole.
Until The Evian Championship in France became a major and then this event's subsequent move in locale, this had been the only LPGA major played at the same course every year -- the LPGA's Masters in that sense. This tradition had grown since Amy Alcott was the first to jump into Poppie's Pond in 1988 when she told her caddie to "let it rip."
However, it wasn't something every champion did right after Alcott. In fact, Alcott had to do it a second time after winning in 1991 for future champions to get the hint. Donna Andrews was the second person to do it in 1994. Nowadays, though, it's expected, with the champion getting a robe presented to them for the jump.
The Poppie's Pond jump is into fairly shallow water, and, unfortunately, there have been injuries over the years. Stacy Lewis's mom fractured her ankle when she jumped into the pond with her daughter after she won the 2011 ANA Inspiration, then the Kraft Nabisco Championship.
