Brooke Henderson is the first Canadian to win her countries major in 45 years

   

     Earlier this summer, Brooke Henderson was the defending champion of the Meijer LPGA stop in Grand Rapids. Brooke is not only an outstanding player but one who has a good head on her shoulders and is not afraid to win. She appeared at the press conference in Grand Rapids and the press conference and my question are included. The Press Conference in Grand Rapids is here <<< Video

The Toronto Star article is below and a good read.  From the Toronto Star

Brooke Henderson ends Canada’s 45-year drought at CP Women’s Open

By DAMIEN COXSports Columnist

Sun., Aug. 26, 2018

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you end a drought.

Brooke Henderson stormed into the Canadian history books like a runaway train on Sunday, blowing away the field to win the CP Women’s Open in Regina with relative ease.

obody, but nobody, was going to stop Henderson from becoming the first Canadian woman in 45 years to capture our country’s national golf championship. When it was over, there was no shy wave to the crowd at the Wascana Country Club, no restrained celebration. It was a party on the 18th green, complete with a champagne shower for Henderson and with one-time Canadian No. 1 Lori Kane leading the assembled crowd in a rendition of “O Canada.”Henderson went into the final round leading by a single stroke, and ended up winning by four, delivering a sensational round of 65 in the rain and cold of a late summer day in Saskatchewan. If she felt the pressure of becoming the first Canuck since Jocelyne Bourassa in 1973 to win on home soil, it didn’t show.

Instead, she was a picture of pure concentration against an elite field and a clutch of pursuers, right up until she cooly drained a three-foot putt for one last birdie on the final hole.

It wasn’t dramatic, not really. When she followed up a birdie by up-and-coming American star Angel Yin that briefly cut her lead to two strokes with a birdie of her own on the 13th hole, it was essentially all over. Nobody had the game to catch her on this weekend.

Afterward, as Henderson reflected on a difficult year for her family in which she lost both grandfathers, she finally let her emotions show.

“It’s been a tough year,” she said, her voice breaking. “To get this for my family, and for Canada, I’m just so happy.”

At just 20 years of age, Henderson looks headed for superstardom in her sport, as well as perhaps becoming the most successful female professional athlete in Canadian sports history.

Henderson is on the same trajectory that Canadian tennis star Eugenie Bouchard was when she made it to the Wimbledon women’s final in  2014, a time when it appeared Bouchard, then 20, was a solid bet to eventually win at least one Grand Slam title and become one of the best known female athletes on the planet.

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