To those who’ve known her since her early days, it’s hardly a surprise to see Brooke Henderson excelling on the top stage, winning her second major on Sunday. Sportsnet's Mike Koreen examines how Canada's best golfer got there.
Two decades ago, golf professional Paul Vaillancourt ran some camps with then-school teacher Dave Henderson in little Smiths Falls, Ont.
No one, of course, could have predicted the 12-time LPGA Tour winner would be the winningest Canadian golfer of all time at the top level before turning 25. But to those who’ve known her since those early days, it’s hardly a surprise to see her excelling on the top stage. “Her sister is great and so are her parents,” McGrath said. “There’s lots of criticism of that obviously, people that are on the outside looking in. They don’t have the right perspective on it. That whole family has stuck together through the good and the bad and there hasn’t been that much bad to be honest.”
When the weather made playing a round impossible, the Hendersons found other ways to help Brooke get better. “I guess I thought she was pretty good or else I wouldn’t have driven up there to watch her,” the World Golf Hall of Fame member said from her home in Aurora, Ont., on Sunday. “She’s been good from the get-go.
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