{"id":440965,"date":"2026-01-29T14:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/440965\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T14:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:07:07","slug":"brooke-henderson-sister-brittany-sepanik-going-to-make-season-opening-event-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/440965\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooke Henderson, sister Brittany Sepanik going to make season-opening event special"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brooke Henderson (left) of Canada and her caddie sister Brittany Sepanik hoist the trophy after winning the 2025 Canadian Women’s Open at Mississaugua Golf and Country Club in Mississauga, Ont.Frank Gunn\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Brooke Henderson has had her sister Brittany Sepanik as her caddie for almost the entirety of her career. <\/p>\n

That will come to an end, or at least a yearlong pause, after this week\u2019s Hilton Grand Vacation Tournament of Champions as Sepanik is set to begin maternity leave. The sisters have had success at the first LPGA Tour event of the season before, with Henderson winning the title at the limited-field event in 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter that, I\u2019m not sure when she\u2019ll be back or if she\u2019ll be back,\u201d said Henderson in a recent phone interview with The Canadian Press. \u201cSo that is special, to share one more of those with her, especially since we\u2019ve won there before together.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really going to soak [it] in. Super excited. I think our whole family is just beyond excited for this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Henderson, from Smiths Falls, Ont., will be the only Canadian at the Tournament of Champions as the lone Canuck to win on the LPGA Tour last season. She captured the CPKC Women\u2019s Open, the Canadian national championship, in August.<\/p>\n

There have only been a few occasions in Henderson\u2019s career where Sepanik wasn\u2019t able to carry her bag. Most recently in 2021 when visa issues meant Sepanik wasn\u2019t able to caddie her younger sister for two tournaments.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, the two have been virtually inseparable on the golf course for a decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019ll be really different,\u201d said Henderson. \u201cJust a lot of the things that we don\u2019t actually have to say to each other, we just know, I think is probably the biggest thing, just because we know each other so well. <\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully someday she\u2019ll be back, but we had such an amazing time together for 10 years. She\u2019s ready for the next chapter, and I will be too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brooke Henderson, second from left, talks with her caddie and sister, Brittany Sepanik during the the 2025 LPGA International Crown tournament at the New Korea Country Club in Goyang, South Korea.Lee Jin-man\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Veteran caddie John Killeen will take over for Sepanik when Henderson embarks on the Asian swing of the LPGA Tour season. He\u2019s got decades of caddying experience and has carried the bag for some of the greats of women\u2019s golf including Betsy King, Meg Mallon, Juli Inkster, Patty Sheehan, Lisette Salas and Ruixin Liu.<\/p>\n

Henderson will also be splitting her season between the LPGA Tour and the newly minted Women\u2019s TMRW Golf League. She was the first of five players named to the new team association that plays indoor simulator golf at SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so grateful to have been asked to join the WTGL. I think it\u2019s a really cool way to help grow the game, especially on the women\u2019s side, to show off the personalities and talent of the LPGA Tour,\u201d said Henderson. \u201cI was just over there earlier this week, and it\u2019s really cool technology, really innovative.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing from Canada, I don\u2019t have the opportunity to play a lot of team competitions, so I\u2019m really looking forward to that aspect as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

NCAA \u2013 Katie Cranston of Oakville, Ont., won the individual title at the UCF Challenge on Tuesday. She carded a nine-under 207 to win her first NCAA title by a stroke and lead her Auburn Tigers to the team victory at Eagle Creek Golf Club in Orlando.<\/p>\n

\u201cLove starting the season with a team and individual win,\u201d said head coach Melissa Luellen. \u201cThrilled for Katie and her first win. She was unflappable mentally through wind and cold.\u201d<\/p>\n

PGA Tour \u2013 Taylor Pendrith of Richmond Hill, Ont., leads the Canadian contingent into this week\u2019s Farmers Insurance Open. He\u2019s tied for 20th on the FedEx Cup standings early in the PGA Tour season. He\u2019ll be joined by Sudarshan Yellamaraju (T31st) of Mississauga, Ont., Adam Svensson (T73rd) of Surrey, B.C., A.J. Ewart (T78th) of Coquitlam, B.C., and Mackenzie Hughes (unranked) of Dundas, Ont., are also in the field at Torrey Pines Golf Course.<\/p>\n

Korn Ferry Tour \u2013 Roger Sloan of Merritt, B.C.is the top Canadian on the second-tier Korn Ferry Tour heading into play at The Panama Championship this week. He\u2019s third on the points list. He\u2019ll be joined by Myles Creighton (T40th) of Digby, N.S., Vancouver\u2019s Stuart Macdonald (47th) and Ben Silverman (T83rd) of Thornhill, Ont., at Club de Golf De Panama. Edmonton\u2019s Wil Bateman, Matthew Anderson of Mississauga, Ont., Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford, B.C., and Drew Nesbitt of Hockley Valley, Ont., are all unranked but will play in the tournament. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Brooke Henderson (left) of Canada and her caddie sister Brittany Sepanik hoist the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,622,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,82,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-440965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-golf","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}