{"id":95002,"date":"2025-08-25T04:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/95002\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T04:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:22:07","slug":"canadian-star-brooke-henderson-wins-cpkc-womens-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/95002\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian star Brooke Henderson wins CPKC Women&#8217;s Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 24, 2025, 06:21 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>MISSISSAUGA, Ontario &#8212; Canadian star <a data-player-guid=\"5ebb8af8-08f2-3792-cd70-74c522e416d9\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/7722\/brooke-henderson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooke Henderson<\/a> won her second CPKC Women&#8217;s Open title Sunday, beating playing partner <a data-player-guid=\"f59cec60-2626-89d7-7d3a-bd23b6a39f21\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/8036\/minjee-lee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minjee Lee<\/a> by a stroke for her first victory in more than 2 1\/2 years.<\/p>\n<p>Henderson closed with a 4-under 68 at Mississaugua Golf and Country Club to finish at 15-under 269. Lee, the Australian player ranked fourth in the world, had a 68.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This week was beyond special,&#8221; Henderson said. &#8220;To be able to finish it off and hoist the trophy again is extremely cool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She later added: &#8220;Honestly, I&#8217;m surprised I&#8217;m not crying right now because it just means so much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Brooke Henderson&#8217;s CPKC Women&#8217;s Open win Sunday was her first since January 2023.\u00a0Frank Gunn\/The Canadian Press via AP<\/p>\n<p>Henderson broke a tie for the lead with a 6-foot birdie putt on the par-3 14th on the tree-lined layout. On the short par-4 17th, she followed Lee&#8217;s 13-foot birdie putt with a 12-footer of her own to keep the lead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love traditional golf courses,&#8221; Henderson said. &#8220;I love tree-lined courses. Being pretty close to home it was very similar to a lot of courses I grew up playing on, so just very comfortable that way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also the 2018 champion at Wascana in Saskatchewan, the 27-year-old Henderson won her 14th LPGA Tour title and first since January 2023. She&#8217;s from Smith Falls, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This year has not gone very well up to this point, and it just feels like this was meant to be,&#8221; Henderson said. &#8220;I felt like I got a lot of breaks out there today and this week, and I just felt like it was meant to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lee won the KPMG Women&#8217;s PGA Championship in June in Texas for her third major title and 11th LPGA Tour title.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a solid performance, so can&#8217;t really say anything,&#8221; Lee said. &#8220;I kind of got out played. I guess.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mao Saigo of Japan was third at 11 under after a 66. Fellow Japanese player Akie Iwai, the winner last week in Oregon who led after each of the first two rounds, had a 69 to finish fourth at 10 under.<\/p>\n<p>Aphrodite Deng, the 15-year-old Canadian amateur who was tied for second after an opening 66, had a 73 to tie for 20th at 4 under.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really cool,&#8221; Deng said. &#8220;I&#8217;m really grateful for the experience, especially in my home country.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 24, 2025, 06:21 PM ET MISSISSAUGA, Ontario &#8212; Canadian star Brooke Henderson won her second CPKC Women&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-95002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95002","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=95002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}