Canadian Brooke Henderson remains at the top of The Evian Championship, the fourth major of the season on the women’s circuit. On the French course of Evian-Les-Bains the winner of the 2016 Women PGA Championship managed to maintain the leadership despite a less brilliant third lap than the previous ones.
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Henderson finished her round in 68 strokes, finding four birdies with which she remedied the bogey she ran into on her very first hole today. By gaining three more hits, she therefore reaches the score of -17.
Just two shots away she is chasing South Korean So Yeon Ryu, who is also a major winner. 2 bogeys and even 8 birdies for her, always growing over the three days. In third place the American Sophia Schubert chases two more shots away.
7 birdies and an unfortunate double bogey to complete a round in 66 shots that brings her to -13. Fourth place tied between the Spanish Carlota Ciganda, author of the third consecutive lap in 67 strokes, and the South Korean Sei Young Kim.à On the other hand, the American Nelly Korda, Olympic gold medal in Tokyo 2020 and second at the end of the second lap, drops to sixth position.
Day equal to PAR with 4 birdies and as many bogeys. In the group of the sixth also the third South Korean, Jin Young Ko and the Thai Atthaya Thitikul. Brooke Mackenzie Henderson (born September 10, 1997 in Smiths Falls, Ontario) is a Canadian golfer.
In December 2015, she received the Bobbie Rosenfeld Trophy, awarded by the Canadian press, rewarding the Canadian athlete of the year. She won her first major tournament on the LPGA Tour at the age of 18 in 2016 at the LPGA Championship.
Three weeks later, she managed to retain her title at the Cambia Portland Open, her third LPGA victory. She won a new trophy in June 2017 at the Meijer LPGA Classic. On August 26, after four days of tournaments, she finally won the Canadian Open, which she had been coveting since 2012, the date of her first participation in this event, as an amateur player. She succeeds, 45 years later, her compatriot Jocelyne Bourassa, winner of the inaugural edition, in 1973.
