The U.S. Women’s Open in Houston is moving from the end of spring to the middle of December.
The USGA said Friday the rapid developments of COVID-19 has led the Women’s Open at Champions Golf Club to be postponed. Instead of being held on June 4-7, the new date is Dec. 10-13.
That would be the latest a major championship is played, and the first time an official LPGA Tour event was held entirely in December since Sandra Haynie won the Pensacola Ladies Invitational in 1966.
Mike Davis, the CEO of the USGA, said the move couldn’t have happened without collaboration with the LPGA Tour and Fox Sports, its broadcast partner which has NFL games during December.