Jeeno Thitikul, Minjee Lee, Lilia Vu, Rose Zhang and defending champion Lauren Coughlin be part of Henderson, Korda and Ko within the area for the 2025 CPKC Ladies’s Open
CPKC Has Coronary heart marketing campaign to learn official charity companion MacKids together with neighborhood charity beneficiary Trillium Well being Companions
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Canadian Pacific Kansas Metropolis (CPKC), Golf Canada and the LPGA Tour at present introduced the early commitments scheduled to compete within the 51st taking part in of the CPKC Ladies’s Open, August 20-24 at Mississaugua Golf and Nation Membership in Mississauga, Ont.
The record of early commitments options six of the present high 10 and 15 of the highest 25 within the Rolex World Golf Rankings. The sphere additionally contains six of the highest 10, 15 of the highest 25 and 66 of the highest 100 gamers on the 2025 Race to the CME Globe Standings. The ultimate area can be introduced on Friday, August 15.
13-time LPGA Tour winner and the winningest golfer in Canadian historical past, Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., will lead a area of 156 golfers that features present world no. 1 Nelly Korda, three-time CPKC Ladies’s Open champion and 2024 Olympic Gold medalist Lydia Ko (world no. 3), and present chief within the Race to the CME Globe, Jeeno Thitikul (world no. 2). Different notables embody Ruoning Yin (world no. 4), Haeran Ryu (world no. 5) and Hannah Inexperienced (world no. 8), together with rising stars Lilia Vu (world no. 11) and Rose Zhang (world no. 44). Minjee Lee (world no. 24) has additionally dedicated to compete in Mississauga. Lee lately gained the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship, incomes her eleventh profession win and third main championship.
The CPKC Ladies’s Open by CPKC Has Coronary heart will as soon as once more go away a significant influence within the host neighborhood of Canada’s Nationwide Ladies’s Open Championship. For 2025, CPKC has chosen MacKids, the arm of Hamilton Well being Sciences Basis devoted to fundraising for MacMaster Youngsters’s Hospital, as the first charity companion with a aim to lift greater than $2.8 million in assist of pediatric cardiac care initiatives from new child to adolescent. As well as, Trillium Well being Companions would be the neighborhood charity companion with CPKC generously matching donations as much as $250,000 in assist of Trillium Well being Companions cardiac program tools wants, with as much as $500,000 anticipated to be raised.
“The expansion and influence of this unimaginable occasion, which continues to draw the world’s high golfers, is plain,” mentioned Keith Creel, CPKC President & Chief Government Officer. “Our final aim with the CPKC Ladies’s Open has been, and all the time can be, to assist the youngest hearts throughout Canada. We’re excited for the neighborhood to return collectively to lift tens of millions of {dollars} for MacKids.”
Final 12 months, CPKC helped elevate $4.3 million for coronary heart well being with donations of $3.8 million to the Alberta Youngsters’s Hospital Basis and $507,000 to the Crimson Deer Regional Well being Basis. Since 2014, this event, which is the marquee occasion of the CPKC Has Coronary heart neighborhood funding program, has helped elevate over $23 million in assist of youngsters’s coronary heart well being in North America.
Defending champion Lauren Coughlin is amongst six previous CPKC Ladies’s Open champions competing for Canada’s Ladies’s Nationwide Open Championship together with Megan Khang (2023), Jin Younger Ko (2019), Brooke Henderson (2018), Brittany Lincicome (2011) and Lydia Ko (2015, 2013, 2012) who can be chasing a report fourth CPKC Ladies’s Open title.
Mississaugua Golf and Nation Membership will welcome eight LPGA Tour in-year winners, together with Yealimi Noh (Founders Cup), Lydia Ko (HSBC Ladies’s World Championship), Madelene Sagstrom (T-Cellular Match Play), Haeran Ryu (Black Desert Championship), Jeeno Thitikul (Mizuho Americas Open), Jennifer Kupcho (ShopRite LPGA Basic), Carlota Ciganda (Meijer LPGA Basic) and Minjee Lee (KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship).
Henderson, a CPKC Ambassador, made historical past on the Wascana Nation Membership in Regina in 2018 turning into the primary Canadian because the late Jocelyne Bourassa gained Canada’s Nationwide Ladies’s Open 45 years earlier. Henderson can be joined by fellow Canadians with LPGA Tour standing, Savannah Grewal of Mississauga, Ont., Alena Sharp of Hamilton, Ont., and Maude-Aimee Leblanc of Sherbrooke, Que.
As well as, an essential pathway to the CPKC Ladies’s Open is thru the She Performs Golf Championship Sequence, a three-stop circuit that gives aggressive alternatives for elite Canadian gamers with exemptions into the event obtainable. Two Staff Canada athletes have claimed the primary two exemptions as 14-year-old Clara Ding of White Rock, B.C. gained the Golf BC Group BC Ladies’s Open and 16-year-old Shauna Liu of Maple, Ont., gained The Peloton Glencoe Invitational. Each Ding and Liu can be making their first begins in an LPGA tour occasion. The ultimate cease within the sequence will happen on the PGA Ladies’s Championship of Canada at Burlington Golf and Nation Membership, July 7-10. One extra exemption can be awarded to the participant ranked highest on the order of benefit for the sequence, if not already certified. For extra data, click on right here.
“We’re excited to announce the early commitments led by Brooke Henderson, Nelly Korda and Lydia Ko for the 51st taking part in of our Nationwide Ladies’s Open Championship. The CPKC Ladies’s Open attracts one of many strongest fields on the LPGA Tour and we look ahead to watching these unimaginable athletes compete in Mississauga,” mentioned Claire Welsh, Event Director, CPKC Ladies’s Open. “We now have welcomed almost 1,000 volunteer registrations, highlighting the joy to be a part of this particular event. The CPKC Ladies’s Open is among the high yearly ladies’s sporting occasions in Canada and followers are in retailer for a really memorable week this August.”
The 2025 CPKC Ladies’s Open will happen on the Treaty 22 territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit score First Nation (MCFN), on lands that had been as soon as house to the Credit score River Mission Village. Throughout event week, MCFN will share their tradition, historical past, and enduring connection to the land by ceremony, storytelling, and academic parts on-site. This engagement is a part of a broader effort to make sure the event honours the historical past of the territory and creates area for studying, reflection, and significant neighborhood connection.
One in every of Canada’s premier annual sporting occasions, the CPKC Ladies’s Open is driving continued momentum from being named because the Gold Driver Award recipient for Finest Volunteer Appreciation on the LPGA 2024 Gold Driver Awards. As well as, the 2024 CPKC Ladies’s Open was named Sport Tourism Canada’s Worldwide Sport Occasion of the Yr on the 2025 Sport Tourism Canada PRESTIGE Awards.
The CPKC Ladies’s Open additionally earned the LPGA Tour’s Event of the Yr award in back-to-back years in 2022 and 2023. The 2023 event additionally gained extra awards for Finest Sponsorship Activation and Finest Volunteer Appreciation at Shaughnessy Golf and Nation Membership in Vancouver. Golf Canada and CPKC additionally acquired Gold Driver Awards for Finest Sponsor Activation in 2019, 2022 and 2023 in addition to Finest Group and Charity Engagement in 2017, 2019 and 2022.
WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP SUMMIT RETURNS
Golf Canada and CPKC will host the eighth annual CPKC Ladies’s Management summit on Tuesday, August 19 as a part of the weeklong pleasure of the 2025 CPKC Ladies’s Open. The summit can be held on the Boulevard Membership in Toronto, Ont., and be hosted by TSN’s Lindsay Hamilton. The day will convey collectively like-minded enterprise leaders from throughout the nation for a day of networking, empowerment and philanthropy. For extra data, click on right here.
HALL OF FAME DAY SET FOR TUESDAY OF TOURNAMENT WEEKGolf Canada will host Corridor of Fame Day on Tuesday, August 19. Achieved beginner golfer, Richard Scott, former skilled golfer Jerry Anderson (posthumous) and famend course architect Charles Blair Macdonald (posthumous) can be inducted into the Canadian Golf Corridor of Fame. For extra data on the honoured members, click on right here. As well as, Alena Sharp of Hamilton, Ont. can be inducted into Golf Ontario’s Corridor of Fame in the course of the ceremony after beforehand being introduced in March.
“THE RINK” HOLE AND THE FARE WAY FEATURING THE KEG FAN EXPERIENCE RETURNS
Followers of all ages will as soon as once more be capable to expertise the week-long celebration of golf highlighted by The Rink on the tenth gap at Mississaugua, and quite a lot of meals and patio experiences in The Fare Manner that includes the Keg.
KIDS 12-AND-UNDER GET IN FREE
As a part of the championship’s dedication to junior golf, admission all week is free for youth aged 12-and-under. Common admission tickets present entry to the golf course and luxuriate in fan activations all through the property and expertise the fun of main skilled golf.
MOBILE APP EXPERIENCE
Expertise the CPKC Ladies’s Open like by no means earlier than by downloading the Golf Canada Cellular App in your iOS or Android machine. Important options embody a dwell map, leaderboard & pairings, tickets, breaking information, and particular occasions. Plus, use the Golf Canada Cellular App to boost your expertise whereas taking part in! Discover golf programs, observe your sport, arrange matches in opposition to pals, entry GPS yardages and extra. Click on right here to obtain.
