In the end, Brooke Henderson fell painfully short of winning another major championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Canadian, a champion already at the Amundi Evian Championship in 2022, lost to Haeran Ryu in a playoff Sunday as the Korean captured her second major in the last 13 days. Henderson staged a furious comeback in the final round, starting the day seven shots back before making an eagle early, on the par-5 7th, ahead of an ace on the very next hole.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She went out in 5-under 30 and the chase was on, as Ryu \u2014 who shot an 11-under 60 on Saturday, the lowest round in major-championship history \u2014 was stuck in neutral. Henderson\u2019s hole-in-one, combined with a Ryu bogey, saw a three-shot swing on the leaderboard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But Henderson had a costly three-putt on No. 11, leading to her first bogey of the day, with the par attempt a shockingly short miss.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She rallied again late, making birdies on Nos. 15 and 16 after a lengthy par-saver on No. 14. Henderson was tied with her playing partners on Sunday, Ryu and Aki Iwai, as they headed into the final two holes of the championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Henderson will rue the par-4 17th, as she missed yet another short putt and put a bogey on the card heading into the short par-5 finisher. With Ryu and Iwai in trouble off the tee, the Smiths Falls, Ont., native roasted her tee shot in the middle of the fairway and left herself about 15 feet for an eagle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Henderson rolled it in to finish at 19 under \u2014 becoming the first player to make six or more eagles in any single LPGA tournament since 1992 \u2014 and she and Ryu headed to a playoff.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The roles were reversed in the extra frame, however, with Ryu finding the fairway and Henderson in trouble off the tee. The Canadian couldn\u2019t get up and down from the fairway after laying up, and Ryu rolled in her birdie for the win.<\/p>\n
With Nelly Korda winning the first two majors of the year, it marked the first time in LPGA history two players have won multiple majors in the same season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The valiant effort by Henderson was just not quite enough in the end.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cPlayed awesome today, which is really exciting. To finish second in a major and third couple week ago, definitely game is in a really good spot,\u201d Henderson said. \u201cObviously very exciting to get into the playoff. Wish I had played a little bit better, but Haeran has been playing great.\u00a0Congrats\u00a0to her. I am happy how I played.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Much has already been made of Henderson playing freer \u2014 and happier \u2014 since she became an aunt two weeks ago. She\u2019ll return to Florida for another visit with her niece next week before heading to Edmonton for an early look at Royal Mayfair Golf Club and participating in media day for the CPKC Women\u2019s Open, where she will be the defending champion come August.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This little stretch for Henderson has come at a great time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With her runner-up result Sunday, she has now gone T3-solo second in her last two majors. The last time she had two major top-10s in the same season? Four years ago, in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAny time you can shoot minus-seven in a final round and chase down a leader like that it\u2019s a huge confidence boost,\u201d Henderson told Golf Channel after her round. \u201cI felt like I hit the ball really well today and gave myself a lot of good opportunities. The putter was working sometimes and other times I could have depended on it a little more.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
There\u2019s one major left on the LPGA Tour schedule this year, the AIG Women\u2019s Open at the end of July. That\u2019s been the toughest one for Henderson of late, as she\u2019s not found the weekend there for the last three years in a row.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But she also hasn\u2019t come into the Women’s Open on such a fine run of golf.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like (my game is) in a really good spot, which is really exciting and something to look forward to,\u201d Henderson said. \u201cComing into AIG I haven’t played that well there in the past, so hopefully this year will be a different story.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the end, Brooke Henderson fell painfully short of winning another major championship.\u00a0 The Canadian, a champion already…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-797603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797603","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=797603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}