Brooke Henderson set to tee off at 4:11 a.m. ET, Alena Sharp will tee off at 6:28 a.m. ET on Wednesday
Girls’s golf can be getting underway on Wednesday morning at Le Golf Nationwide in Paris, France on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games.
Workforce Canada is represented by Brooke Henderson (Smiths Falls, Ont.) and Alena Sharp (Hamilton, Ont.) for the third consecutive Olympic Video games. Henderson will tee off at 4:11 a.m. ET and is grouped with Hyo Joo Kim (Republic of Korea) and Xiyu Lin (China). Sharp will start her first spherical at 6:28 a.m. ET and can be taking part in with Ana Belac (Slovenia) and Sara Kouskova (Czechia). On Thursday, Sharp’s group will start play at 4:33 a.m. ET and Henderson’s will tee off at 6:06 a.m. ET.
Henderson is Canada’s winningest skilled golfer of all time, with 13 LPGA Tour wins, together with two main titles. Henderson is a graduate of Golf Canada’s nationwide staff program and is the one feminine athlete to win Canada’s nationwide Junior (2012), Newbie (2013) and Nationwide Open Championship (2018 CPKC Girls’s Open). This season, Henderson has earned seven top-10 finishes on the LPGA Tour together with three third place finishes, she completed T8 on the CPKC Girls’s Open final month. Henderson beforehand completed T7 at Rio 2016 and T29 at Tokyo 2020. For Henderson the expertise of Paris has been memorable up to now.
“Rio was actually enjoyable, for me and I believe for each of us it was a very nice week. It was the primary Olympic Video games that golf was concerned. It was actually cool simply to be a part of the entire expertise and studying the ins and outs of every thing within the Olympics, which was fairly cool. Tokyo was a really totally different expertise with no followers and really secluded and simply went to the lodge and to the course. It’s enjoyable to be at a Video games the place there’s so many individuals and there’s a lot pleasure surrounding it. I really feel like up to now it has been the very best one, yeah,” stated Henderson.
Sharp, a long-time LPGA Tour member most just lately earned a bronze medal for Workforce Canada on the Santiago 2023 Pan American Video games in Chile final November. Sharp has gained twice on the Epson Tour and has earned 16 top-10 finishes on the LPGA Tour in her profession. Final month, Sharp earned back-to-back top-20 finishes on the Dana Open (T19) and CPKC Girls’s Open (T14). Sharp beforehand completed thirtieth at Rio 2016 and forty ninth at Tokyo 2020. Sharp will draw on her expertise profitable bronze on the Pan Am Video games to assist her in Paris.
“I believe being in competition with 9 holes to go and understanding I may end, I may possibly get a medal. And being in that stress state of affairs, I can nonetheless keep in mind it as a result of it was solely in November, and I really feel like that’s going to assist me. I really feel like this time that the opposite two Video games — like Rio I used to be feeling good about my recreation. Tokyo, not so good. This week, I really feel like coming right here, I may really win now. Tokyo, I didn’t suppose that. I wasn’t coming to — not take part however do my greatest. The final two weeks taking part in earlier than right here had been actually strong. I had two actually good finishes and coming into my stride on the proper time. I really feel like I’m extra assured because the week goes on and had good prep. So able to get began,” stated Sharp.
Henderson and Sharp will look to grow to be the primary Canadian to win an Olympic golf medal since George Lyon’s gold medal at St. Louis 1904. Henderson’s T7 at Rio 2016 is the very best current end by a Canadian since golf returned to the Olympics in 2016. Final week the lads’s golf wrapped up with Corey Conners ending T9 and Nick Taylor T30.
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