John Chidley-Hill/ Canadian Press
It could have made all of the sense on the earth for Brooke Henderson to take every week off.
In spite of everything, Henderson gained the CPKC Girls’s Open on Sunday, warding off Australia’s Minjee Lee for a one-stroke victory on the Canadian nationwide ladies’s golf championship.
Henderson, from Smiths Falls, Ont., is the winningest skilled golfer in Canadian historical past and really a lot the face of the Girls’s Open, doing media appearances, assembly with sponsors, and signing a whole bunch of autographs all week whereas additionally holding her personal in opposition to the very best feminine gamers on the earth.
However after celebrating her 14th victory on the LPGA Tour, Henderson determined to place her nostril again to the grindstone and fulfil her dedication to play on this week’s FM Championship at TPC Boston in Norton, Mass.
“Proper after I gained on Sunday I wasn’t positive what I used to be going to do. It was such an enormous week for me. I used to be very busy and simply emotionally took quite a bit out of me,” Henderson mentioned at a information convention on Wednesday. “I knew this occasion was an incredible occasion and I used to be excited to have the chance to return play right here, so simply determined simply to attempt to maintain issues going.
“Felt like it could be good for me to get again into, not actuality, however get again to work and focus in on the issues that I have to concentrate on.”
The victory — Henderson’s second Canadian championship — additionally salvaged what was shaping as much as be her worst season since turning skilled in 2015.
Successful at Mississaugua Golf and Nation Membership elevated Henderson from 53rd to twenty sixth on the Race to CME Globe rankings, the LPGA Tour’s factors record. It additionally meant she’s going to be a part of the World Staff on the Hanwha LIFEPLUS Worldwide Crown in late October and play within the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship in late November.
“I feel the massive factor for me was my mindset and simply mentally being in a very good way of thinking. I really feel like I’ve been working diligently on that, so to see all of it work out final week was nice within the warmth of the second and beneath stress in rivalry. That was enormous for me.
“All components of my sport I used to be simply making an attempt to enhance and be a bit bit extra constant and get again to the place it wanted to be to be on the prime of the leaderboard.”
Henderson is within the marquee group within the first and second spherical at TPC Boston, enjoying with Lee and Nelly Korda of america in Thursday’s morning wave. Henderson is the lowest-ranked of the trio, with Korda sitting seventh and Lee second.
“I’m undoubtedly drained, however I’m wanting ahead to getting some good relaxation later this afternoon and tonight,” mentioned Henderson. “It’s an early tee time tomorrow, so I’ll go to mattress fairly early and attempt to get well as a lot as I can.
“I really feel like final week was an enormous week it simply took a lot out of my entire group mentally, bodily, emotionally, so I feel it’s actually essential simply to attempt to get well that going into tomorrow.”
Savannah Grewal of Mississauga, Ont., is the one different Canadian within the discipline on the FM Championship. She’s grouped with Alex Pano of the U.S., and South Africa’s Ashleigh Buhai in a bunch that tees off within the early afternoon.
PGA TOUR AMERICAS — A.J. Ewart of Coquitlam, B.C., is the best ranked Canadian on the Fortinet Cup standings heading into this week’s CRMC Championship. He’s twenty third heading into the play at Craguns Legacy Course at Brainerd, Minn. There are a complete of 11 Canadians within the discipline.
