{"id":86231,"date":"2025-08-21T12:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/86231\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:50:13","slug":"brooke-henderson-hopes-for-a-rebound-at-cpkc-womens-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/86231\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooke Henderson hopes for a rebound at CPKC Women\u2019s Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brooke Henderson plays her shot from the 17th tee during the third round of The Standard Portland Classic 2025 at Columbia Edgewater Country Club, this past Saturday in Portland, Oregon.Orlando Ramirez\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Brooke Henderson has played in more than a dozen CPKC Women\u2019s Open tournaments, winning the national women\u2019s golf championship in 2018. And she\u2019s loved every moment. <\/p>\n

But as Henderson has struggled on the LPGA Tour this season, she\u2019s gone back to old video of herself playing in previous national championships to recapture her mojo.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust trying to get some motivation and try to lean back on some things that I\u2019ve learned over the years just to see the progress that I\u2019ve made, and it\u2019s pretty cool,\u201d said Henderson in the media centre at Mississauga Golf and Country Club. <\/p>\n

\u201cI played in this event a lot and I\u2019ve had a lot of success, winning in 2018 and multiple Top 10s, even when I was young to make the cut was super cool.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust trying to think back to what was going through my mind when I was answering those questions back then or out there playing. (…) There are so many cool things that have happened at this event, so just trying to take positive energy from that and use it this week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Henderson, from Smiths Falls, Ont., is the winningest player in Canadian golf history, taking 13 titles on the LPGA Tour including two majors. She peaked at No. 6 on the Rolex Women\u2019s World Golf Rankings. <\/p>\n

As the biggest name in Canadian golf and a returning champion, Henderson is the face of the Women\u2019s Open.<\/p>\n

But she\u2019s also in the midst of her most frustrating season as a professional golfer, where she has made 12 of 17 cuts but only reached the top 10 of a leaderboard once. Although still the top-ranked Canadian on the women\u2019s rankings, she\u2019s sunk down to 58th.<\/p>\n

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After tying for 23rd in The Standard Portland Classic on the weekend, Henderson is looking to play four consistent rounds of golf this week in Mississauga, Ont. at the CPKC Women\u2019s Open.Orlando Ramirez\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI think just getting four solid rounds of golf together in a row is really key. Just being a little bit more consistent, said Henderson, who tied for 23rd at last week\u2019s Standard Portland Classic. \u201cFor a while the ball striking was a bit of an issue. I feel like we worked diligently on that and it\u2019s back to a better spot.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo just piecing everything together. Golf is hard and I found that out more recently than I ever have. Just trying to take it day by day, figuring it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The level of competition on the LPGA Tour hasn\u2019t made it easy for Henderson, either.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe golf has just gotten so much better. Everyone is getting so good,\u201d said world No. 2 Nelly Korda of the United States. \u201cIf you just look at the teams that the girls have around themselves, they\u2019re investing so much into themselves, their game, everything, so they can compete week in, week out at their best ability.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thailand\u2019s Jeeno Thitikul leapfrogged Korda in the rankings on Aug. 4 to become the world\u2019s top golfer. She agreed that the LPGA Tour has never been more competitive.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say it\u2019s so hard, especially this year,\u201d said Thitikul. \u201cAll the winners are different faces. I don\u2019t think any players have got multiple wins yet this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the group of people that have the talent and potential to win is bigger and bigger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although no longer a major \u2014 the Women\u2019s Open lost that honour in 2001 \u2014 the Canadian women\u2019s championship remains one of toughest fields on tour. Six of the current top 10 and 19 of the top 25 players on the world rankings are in the field.<\/p>\n

Defending champion Lauren Coughlin is among eight past winners in Canada, along with Megan Khang (2023), Paula Reto (2022), Jin Young Ko (2019), Henderson (2018), Sung Hyun Park (2017), Ariya Jutanugarn (2016) and Lydia Ko (2015, 2013, 2012).<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s two-stroke victory at Earl Grey Golf Club in Calgary was the first LPGA Tour win of Coughlin\u2019s career and she said on Wednesday it continues to shape her as a player.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it gave me the confidence that I could get it done when I needed to, that I could hit shots, make putts when I needed to coming down the stretch,\u201d said Coughlin, who followed that up with a win at the Scottish Open last season. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think I just learned I don\u2019t need to do anything other than being myself out there and have a lot of fun and be really relaxed. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf I can do that, I can contend.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Brooke Henderson plays her shot from the 17th tee during the third round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86232,"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-86231","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\/86231","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=86231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}