{"id":815905,"date":"2026-07-21T07:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/815905\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T07:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:42:09","slug":"canadian-golf-star-brooke-henderson-discusses-recent-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/815905\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian golf star Brooke Henderson discusses recent engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brooke Henderson plays on the fifth hole during the last round of the Evian Championship women’s golf tournament in Evian, eastern France, earlier this month.Laurent Cipriani\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Brooke Henderson draws a direct line between her recent success on the golf course to her happiness off of it.<\/p>\n

Top-three finishes in her last two majors \u2013 including a monster final round at the Evian Championship that put her in a playoff \u2013 has coincided with becoming an aunt and an escalation in her love life.<\/p>\n

Minnesota Twins prospect Ricky Castro got down on one knee on a beach in Florida and proposed to Henderson two days after she posted three eagles, including a hole in one, in her final-round 64 in France.<\/p>\n

The winningest golfer in Canadian history said yes. The couple made their engagement public in a social media post Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been an amazing month. I\u2019m really grateful for how great things have been off the course for me recently,\u201d Henderson said Monday in Edmonton.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have that positive energy and you have kind of that happiness other than from golf, I think it\u2019s really key and then it definitely translates over into the game of golf.\u201d<\/p>\n

Henderson stopped in at the Royal Mayfair Club where she will attempt to defend her CPKC Women\u2019s Open championship, which is the Canadian Open, in August.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old from Smiths Falls, Ont., owns a career 14 LPGA Tour wins, including two majors. <\/p>\n

Henderson tied for third in the Women\u2019s PGA Championship on June 28 before her final-weekend surge in the Evian, where she recorded six eagles over her final two rounds.<\/p>\n

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Brooke Henderson and her caddie, cousin Ryan Henderson, line up a putt on the 17th green during the third round of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at Hazeltine National Golf Club last month in Chaska, Minn.Andrew Wevers\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Seven strokes off the lead heading into the final day, Henderson laid down her best round this season to flirt with a third major, and a second Evian title after claiming it in 2022.<\/p>\n

Henderson lost to South Korea\u2019s Haeran Ryu in a playoff, but she feels good about her game heading into her next major, which is next week\u2019s AIG Women\u2019s Open in Lancashire, England.<\/p>\n

Henderson\u2019s impending nuptials competed with her golf game as question topics at Monday\u2019s news conference to promote the Canadian tournament, which takes place Aug. 19-23. <\/p>\n

Henderson won it last year at Mississaugua Golf and Country Club and in 2018 at Regina\u2019s Wascana Country Club.<\/p>\n

There is no wedding date yet, Henderson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just kind of enjoying this phase right now,\u201d she said. \u201cProbably not for like a while, at least a year, maybe a year and a half.\u201d<\/p>\n

Castro, 26, signed with the Twins in 2024 and is currently pitching for the Triple-A St. Paul Saints.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s an incredible athlete, he\u2019s a pitcher and I feel like there\u2019s a lot of correlations between pitcher and golfer,\u201d Henderson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust being able to talk to him about a lot of certain things and things that are going well for him or not so well for him, and me being able share those same experiences and kind of learn from each other has been really helpful over the course that we\u2019ve known each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Henderson gained a niece in June, but lost her longtime caddie in January when sister Brittany went on maternity leave. <\/p>\n

Sahalee, born June 25, is named for Washington\u2019s Sahalee Country Club, where Brooke captured her first major in 2016 with Brittany on her bag.<\/p>\n

Life on and off the course was hard for Henderson without her sister. Henderson placed third in their last tournament together, the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions, in January.<\/p>\n

Henderson ranked outside the top 20, and missed cuts twice, in her next 10 tournaments before her re-emergence at the Women\u2019s PGA Championship.<\/p>\n

Her cousin Ryan Henderson took over caddie duties for veteran John Killeen at the end of May.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving my sister on my bag for 11 seasons, she\u2019s my best friend and being able to travel around the world together was honestly a dream come true,\u201d Henderson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe transition period between my sister and my cousin was challenging. I had a veteran caddie out on tour and he was amazing, but I was travelling by myself.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very lonely, but now I\u2019m travelling a little bit more with my cousin, which is great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brittany still serves as a remote caddie.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was in labour and I sent her putting videos and she helped me with my putting,\u201d Henderson said.<\/p>\n

As for her engagement, Henderson said after she woke from a post-travel nap, the couple went to the lake to read Scripture.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter we finished reading, he just talked to me for like a minute. I saw a person with a camera, like not too far away, and I was like, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s weird.\u2019 Then he got down on one knee and asked me, and it was really easy to say yes,\u201d she recounted.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe did everything right. He asked my dad, my mom, my grandma, my sister if it was OK. He\u2019s just an amazing man, and I\u2019m really grateful that he\u2019s mine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Brooke Henderson plays on the fifth hole during the last round of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815906,"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-815905","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\/815905","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=815905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}