In-form Grace Kim is among six Australians striving to join legendary compatriot Karrie Webb on the Chevron Championship honour board at the first women's golf major of the year.

After being staged at Mission Hills Country Club in Palm Springs, California for more than half a century, the $US5.1 million ($A7.57 million) tournament will be held at the Jack Nicklaus-designed Woodlands Club in Texas for the first time.

Either way, women's golf's biggest names, led by New Zealand's world No.1 Lydia Ko, are all teeing up from Thursday chasing the first major trophy of 2023.

While Australia's reigning US Open champion and world No.4 Minjee Lee has made an unusually quiet start to the season, Kim is flying and enters her debut Chevron Championship fresh off the back of her maiden LPGA Tour victory.

The 22-year-old former amateur sensation followed up near misses over the summer at the Australian Open and dual-gender TPS Sydney with a thrilling breakthrough win at the LOTTE Championship in Hawaii.

In snaring the trophy with a birdie on the first playoff hole, Kim joined 2016 champion Lee as the second Australian to win the tournament in Oahu.

Now she gets the chance to follow in her idol Webb's famous footsteps.

Webb won two of her seven majors at the Chevron in 2000 and 2006 before awarding the Karrie Webb scholarship to Kim four times.

"I can spiritually feel that she was supporting," Kim said of Webb after saluting last weekend in only her third LPGA Tour start.

"She's always just been really cool with talking. She's just a great contact to have. I can reach out whenever I want to. I think just knowing that makes me feel really relieved."

Kim will play the first two rounds with French star Celine Boutier and American Lizette Salas.

Lee features in the marquee group with American world No.2 Nelly Korda and Korea's three-time major winner In Gee Chun.

Rounding out the Australian challenge are 2019 PGA champion Hannah Green, Steph Kyriacou, Sarah Kemp and rising star Karis Davidson, who finished tied for 19th in Hawaii.

American Jennifer Kupcho is the defending champion.

This year's winner will bank a cheque for $US750,000 ($A1.11 million).