{"id":863302,"date":"2026-08-19T03:58:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/863302\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T03:58:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:58:40","slug":"henderson-looks-to-defend-canadian-womens-open-golf-title-in-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/863302\/","title":{"rendered":"Henderson looks to defend Canadian Women\u2019s Open golf title in Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian golfer Brooke Henderson is looking to defend her title this weekend at the Women&#8217;s Canadian Open at the Royal Mayfair. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The most successful Canadian in Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) history is looking to defend her title this week at Edmonton\u2019s Royal Mayfair Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Brooke Henderson of Ottawa won the CPKC Canadian Women\u2019s Open for the second time last year in Mississauga, Ont.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 28-year-old, who won her first major tournament 10 years ago, has racked up 14 LPGA wins over her career, the most by any Canuck female golfer. Her pair of Canadian Women\u2019s Open victories is the most by a Canadian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Henderson told reporters on Tuesday that she\u2019s \u201cbeen able to use the energy and the atmosphere (from) all the fans\u201d for support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI feel like I\u2019ve been able to use that to my advantage over the years,\u201d said Henderson, who\u2019s ranked No. 11 in the Rolex Women\u2019s World Golf Rankings heading into the four-day Open, which begins Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Heading into Edmonton, she has scored four Top 10 finishes this season, including second place in July\u2019s Amundi Evian Championship.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BK6AHSHCCZB6ZP5EDMQEVUVV3A.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>CPKC Canadian Women&#8217;s Open Golfers practise on Aug. 17, 2026, at Edmonton&#8217;s Royal Mayfair Golf Club, where the CPKC Canadian Women&#8217;s Open will be held Aug. 20-23. (Jeremy Thompson\/CTV News Edmonton) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Top-ranked women\u2019s golfer Nelly Korda headlines the field that includes Top 10 contenders HyoJoo Kim, Miyu Yamashita, Ruoning Yin, Hannah Green and Minjee Lee. Korda, 27, has won four of the 12 tournaments in which she\u2019s played in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 156-golfer field also includes the No. 12-ranked Lydia Ko, who won the Canadian Women\u2019s Open the last time it was staged in Edmonton, also at the Royal Mayfair, in 2013. The 29-year-old from New Zealand also won the Open in 2012 and 2015. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s the third time the Royal Mayfair has hosted the Canadian Women\u2019s Open, all within the last 20 years. The prize purse for the four-round tournament, which began in 1973, is worth $2.75 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With files from CTV News Edmonton\u2019s Evan Kenny<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian golfer Brooke Henderson is looking to defend her title this weekend at the Women&#8217;s Canadian Open at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-863302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863302","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=863302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}