With 20 professional wins including 13 on the LPGA Tour and two major titles, Brooke Henderson is the most successful Canadian golfer in history.
Henderson won three events on the CN Canadian Women's Tour, including the PGA Women's Championship of Canada, while still an amateur. Aged 16, she finished tied for 10th at the 2014 U.S. Women's Open and was the top-ranked amateur in the world. Two months after her 17th birthday, she opted to turn professional.
With elder sister Brittany, a former professional golfer, as her caddy and father Dave her coach, Henderson scored her first LPGA win at the Cambia Portland Classic in August 2015 by a massive eight strokes.
In June 2016, she became the first Canadian woman to win a major for 48 years when she beat Lydia Ko in a playoff at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship. Her victory at Sahalee Country Club near Seattle made her the second-youngest women's major champion. Three weeks later, she retained her Portland Classic title and then made her Olympic debut at Rio 2016 where she finished in seventh place.
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