TORONTO (June 24, 2024) – Golf Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee have introduced Group Canada girls’s golf athletes nominated to compete on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games. The 2 athletes are:
Brooke Henderson (Smiths Falls, Ont.)Alena Sharp (Hamilton, Ont.)
The 2 athletes certified for Group Canada based mostly on their standing on the Official World Golf Rankings on the shut of the Olympic qualification interval following the completion of the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship on Sunday, June 23, 2024. On the shut of the Paris 2024 girls’s qualification interval, Henderson sits 14th on the Rolex Girls’s World Golf Rating and Sharp is 292nd.
The 2-year Olympic qualification interval for ladies’s golf noticed the athletes earn their spot on Group Canada via their respective outcomes on the LPGA Tour and different girls’s world golf competitions. Paris 2024 will mark the third Olympic look for each Henderson and Sharp, who competed collectively at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.
Henderson was Canada’s high golfer within the sport’s return to the Olympic Video games after 112 years, ending in a tie for seventh at Rio 2016. She then completed tied for twenty ninth at Tokyo 2020. A 13-time winner on the LPGA Tour, together with two main titles, Henderson is Canada’s winningest skilled golfer of all time. She at the moment sits fifth on the LPGA Tour’s Race to the CME Globe Rankings, with 5 top-10 finishes in 14 LPGA Tour begins in 2024. A graduate of Golf Canada’s nationwide group program, Henderson is the one Canadian feminine athlete to win Canada’s nationwide Junior (2012), Newbie (2013) and Nationwide Open Championships (2018 CPKC Girls’s Open).
“Any time you’ll be able to go and characterize your nation it’s a really proud second,” mentioned Henderson. “To have the ability to put on the Maple Leaf and go to Paris is de facto thrilling for me.”
Sharp, a long-time LPGA Tour member, is not any stranger to worldwide competitors. She earned a bronze medal for Group Canada on the Santiago 2023 Pan American Video games in Chile. The 43-year outdated has 16 profession top-10 finishes and has made the minimize in three of 4 occasions performed this 12 months on the LPGA Tour. Sharp made 14 cuts in 14 begins on the Epson Tour in 2023 with 5 top-10 outcomes, together with a win on the Champions Fore Change Invitational. She additionally received the ORORO PGA of Canada Girls’s Championship in 2023.
“Reaching the Olympics for a 3rd time was an enormous purpose of mine coming into this 12 months and I’m extraordinarily proud to have achieved it,” mentioned Sharp. “Representing Canada is the very best honour I’ve had in my profession.”
Henderson and Sharp will look to grow to be the primary Canadian girls to win an Olympic golf medal. Canada’s finest Olympic end in girls’s golf was Henderson’s tie for seventh at Rio 2016.
Golf Canada’s Director of Excessive Efficiency Emily Phoenix believes the Olympic and worldwide expertise of the athletes will likely be an asset to the ladies’s group in Paris.
“Each Brooke and Alena are heading into their third Olympic golf competitors and that have and familiarity is certain to show useful for the athletes,” mentioned Phoenix, who will function the Stollery Household Olympic Girls’s Group Lead in Paris. “Brooke is a fierce competitor who has confirmed able to bringing her finest performances to the largest stage whereas Alena heads to Paris with an amazing momentum in returning to the shape on the LPGA Tour and incomes a bronze medal for Canada finally 12 months’s Pan Am Video games golf competitors.”
The ladies’s golf match at Paris 2024 will happen August 7 – 10 (Days 12 – 15) at Le Golf Nationwide.
“Congratulations to the 2 Canadian golfers chosen to characterize Canada in Paris. They are going to be competing of their third Olympic Video games, and their exceptional expertise will likely be essential belongings on the celebrated Golf Nationwide course,” mentioned Bruny Surin, Group Canada’s Paris 2024 Chef de Mission. “They’re able to chip away obstacles and characterize our nation with satisfaction and excellence. Swing robust and play with all of your coronary heart!”
Group Canada’s girls’s golf group for the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games additionally contains the next caddies and help workers:
Caddies & Assist StaffEmily Phoenix (Calgary, Alta.) – Stollery Household Olympic Girls’s Group LeadBrittany Henderson (Smiths Falls, Ont.) – Caddie for Brooke HendersonSarah Bowman (Somerset, Penn., USA) – Caddie for Alena Sharp
Nick Taylor and Corey Conners have been the 2 male golfers introduced to the Paris 2024 Canadian Olympic Group final week.
Previous to being named to Group Canada, all nominations are topic to approval by the Canadian Olympic Committee’s Group Choice Committee following its receipt of nominations by all Nationwide Sport Organizations.
The newest Group Canada Paris 2024 roster might be discovered right here.
