Brooke Henderson stepped it up late to finish her two-year LPGA title drought with a victory in her house open on Sunday, firing a final-round 67 to edge Minjee Lee by one stroke to win the Canadian Ladies’s Open.
Henderson lifted the trophy for a second time — seven years after her 2018 triumph made her the primary Canadian since 1973 to assert the title.
A two-time main champion, she claimed her 14th LPGA title however her first because the 2023 Event of Champions with a 15-under par complete of 269.
Lee carded a three-under 68 for 270.
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“I’ve been ready for that 14th win appears like perpetually,” Henderson mentioned. “To win it right here makes it simply so particular.
“I had household and associates right here and I simply thank God for permitting me to be again on this place and permitting me to have the braveness and the power to carry out right here.”
Henderson began the day tied for the lead with Lee and the 2 had been neck-and-neck by way of the primary 9 holes.
Each birdied the second and bogeyed the fourth, Henderson including a birdie on the fifth and Lee a birdie the eighth earlier than Lee dropped again with a bogey at 11.
The Aussie — who received her third main title on the Ladies’s PGA Championship this 12 months — would add three extra birdies coming in.
However Henderson’s birdies at 13, 14 and 17 — the place she drilled a 12-foot putt to match Lee’s birdie and hold her nostril in entrance — had been simply sufficient, a lot to the delight of followers at Mississauga Golf and Nation Membership.
“It’s so particular,” Henderson mentioned. “I’m stunned I’m not crying as a result of I believed I undoubtedly was going to throughout this interview.
“The crowds had been so unbelievable all week and I simply can’t thank everybody sufficient for popping out,” she added. “They gave me a lot confidence, and once I acquired issues rolling simply a lot momentum.”
Japan’s Mai Saigo, winner of the Chevron Championship earlier this 12 months, birdied 5 of the final seven holes in a bogey-free five-under par 66 that gave her second place on 273.
“5 birdies and no bogeys — it was a great day,” Saigo mentioned. Japan’s Akie Iwai, who rolled into Canada after profitable her first LPGA title in Portland and led after every of the primary two rounds, bounced again from a disappointing third spherical to publish a two-under 69 and was alone in fourth on 274.