{"id":864951,"date":"2026-08-20T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864951\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:00:09","slug":"defending-champion-henderson-headlines-field-as-cpkc-womens-open-gets-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864951\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending champion Henderson headlines field as CPKC Women&#8217;s Open gets underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">EDMONTON \u2014 Defending champion Brooke Henderson headlines the field as the LPGA Tour\u2019s CPKC Women\u2019s Open gets underway at Edmonton\u2019s Royal Mayfair Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/live\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/live\">Watch coverage starting at 6pm ET\/3pm PT LIVE on TSN, TSN.ca and the TSN App.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Henderson won her second Canadian Open title last year in Mississauga, Ont.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 28-year-old from Smiths Falls, Ont., enters the tournament ranked 11th in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Her game has been rounding into form of late, and she finished runner-up at last month\u2019s Evian Championship, losing the major to Haeran Ryu in a playoff hole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Henderson has 14 career LPGA Tour wins, a Canadian record for victories on a major circuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The US$2.75 million tournament includes six of the world\u2019s top 10 golfers, including world No. 1 Nelly Korda of the United States. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 Defending champion Brooke Henderson headlines the field as the LPGA Tour\u2019s CPKC Women\u2019s Open gets underway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-864951","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\/864951","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=864951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}