John Chidley-Hill/ Canadian Press
Brooke Henderson is raring to get again on the roller-coaster that’s an LPGA Tour season.
Henderson, from Smiths Falls, Ont., would be the solely Canadian within the subject on the Hilton Grand Holidays Event of Champions when the LPGA Tour tees off its 2024 marketing campaign on Thursday. The unique event has winners from the previous two seasons on the highest ladies’s circuit competing, in addition to a star event.
She certified for it as a two-time winner in 2022 and because the 2023 Event of Champions’ victor, though the remainder of her yr didn’t go as she had hoped.
“There’s plenty of highs and many lows and also you simply need to proceed to journey it out and be affected person,” mentioned Henderson at a information convention. “Beginning out with a win right here final yr, undoubtedly an enormous excessive after which I did have some lows all year long.”
Henderson missed the reduce 5 instances final season after profitable the Event of Champions on Jan. 22. She didn’t attain one other high 10 till the Amundi Evian Championship, the place she completed second on July 27.
Her efficiency improved from there, ending twelfth on the CME Group Tour Championship, the LPGA Tour’s season finale, on Nov. 16. She then ended the yr on a excessive be aware too, ending second with associate Corey Conners of Listowel, Ont., on the Grant Thornton Invitational, a non-sanctioned occasion that brings collectively golfers from the LPGA Tour and the lads’s PGA Tour.
“I really feel like close to the top of the season, I used to be beginning to climb my method again up,” mentioned Henderson, who completed final season fifteenth on the Race to CME Globe standings and begins the season ranked No. 13 on the Rolex Rankings. “I simply began to see a variety of positives close to the top of the season so I attempted to proceed that on by the low season.
“I’m excited to be enjoying right here this week, enjoying subsequent week as effectively (on the LPGA Drive On Championship), couple weeks off and go to Asia, which I at all times actually sit up for enjoying these occasions over there.”
Henderson has recent begin in her bag too, having labored in a completely new set of golf equipment over the previous few months. The 26-year-old changed her irons within the fall, then switched out her fairway woods, driver, and putter.
She’s significantly enthusiastic about her new Qi10 driver, which she first tried throughout a photograph shoot for TaylorMade.
“I had to make use of it that day for some pictures and I used it on the vary and I used to be like, ‘Wow, I like this!’ so it went instantly into my bag,” mentioned Henderson, who famous that its added energy was a boon because the LPGA Tour shrunk the utmost size of drivers from 48 inches to 46 two years in the past.
“(The brand new driver) has been such a fantastic change. I’ve gained just a little little bit of distance and I really feel like I’m hitting it rather a lot straighter, which supplies me a variety of confidence transferring ahead.”
Henderson mentioned that she loves the Event of Champions as a result of the smaller, elite 35-player subject and movie star tourney provides it a distinct really feel from the standard LPGA Tour occasion.
“This can be a nice technique to begin out the yr,” mentioned Henderson. “It’s an incredible environment, it’s actually enjoyable.
There’s concert events three nights of the week, massive events, and it’s just a bit bit extra chill. it’s nice vibes.”
