The jump into Poppie’s Pond at Mission Hills was a special tradition for the first women’s major championship of the year dating back to 1988.
Now named the Chevron Championship, the event moved from the course in Rancho Mirage, California, to The Club at Carlton Woods in the Woodlands, Texas, outside Houston, and with the change of venue came the natural question: will the winner jump? With snakes and gators present in the area, it wasn’t an easy question to answer.
Vu and her caddie walked by the 18th green during the practice round and discussed if she would make the leap.
“I was like, ‘Yeah, I would jump. If I won here, of course I would jump,’” said Vu after the win. “(Saturday) or the day before we saw a snake on 17 pond, so I was kind of thinking about that today, but I think the emotions were high and just adrenaline, got to jump into that pond.”
And jump she did.
Check out the best photos of the traditional pond jump, the championship’s first in Texas.
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