Canada's professional golfers on the upswing entering 2025

John Chidley-Hill · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jan 02, 2025 4:43 PM EST | Last Updated: January 2

Golf continued to beryllium connected the upswing successful Canada successful 2024, and Brooke Henderson expects adjacent much successful the caller year.

Calgary hosted the CPKC Women's Open, Hamilton welcomed the RBC Canadian Open, and Montreal held the biennial Presidents Cup, an elite PGA Tour lawsuit wherever the 12 champion American golfers look the 12 champion players from astir the satellite excluding Europe.

Henderson said that seeing the champion golfers successful the satellite travel to Canada for 3 antithetic tournaments was her item of 2024.

"All the vigor and ambiance that surrounds the Presidents Cup and holding it successful Canada, I consciousness similar volition person a large interaction connected aboriginal generations and radical picking up the game," said Henderson. "The CPKC Women's Open is evidently precise important to maine and I emotion that lawsuit and being capable to beryllium successful Calgary this twelvemonth and seeing each the radical determination retired supporting america was truly awesome.

"I conscionable anticipation the crippled continues to grow, but aft everything that Canadians did this twelvemonth connected circuit and conscionable successful play successful general, I deliberation it's successful bully hands."

The 27-year-old Henderson, from Smiths Falls, Ont., has the astir vocation wins of immoderate Canadian golfer with 13 victories connected the LPGA Tour.

This past play was the archetypal since 2020 that Henderson didn't adhd a rubric to her already awesome resume. She did, however, person 9 top-ten finishes connected the LPGA Tour and teamed with Corey Conners of Listowel, Ont., to decorativeness 4th astatine the Grant Thornton Invitational, an elite lawsuit co-hosted by the apical men's and women's tours.

That enactment her astatine 13th successful the LPGA Tour rankings by the extremity of the play and 25th connected the satellite rankings.

Henderson besides represented Canada astatine the Olympics for a 3rd time, joining Conners, Hamilton's Alena Sharp and Nick Taylor of Abbotsford, B.C., astatine the Paris Games.

"Representing Canada successful the Olympics successful Paris was a immense highlight, being capable to deterioration the Maple Leaf and the reddish and white," said Henderson. "Just being successful contention a small spot aboriginal successful the play was different highlight. I deliberation finishing 3rd astatine the Chevron Championship [the archetypal large of the year] was a large infinitesimal successful the season.

"I would person ever liked to beryllium 2 spots a small spot amended there, but finishing 3rd successful that title and being successful contention successful the last radical was a batch of fun."

WATCH l Henderson ties career debased for large tourney with 8-under 64:

Savannah Grewal of Mississauga, Ont., Maude-Aimee Leblanc of Sherbrooke, Que., and Sharp volition re-join Henderson arsenic full-time members of the LPGA Tour successful 2025.

The Canadian men besides turned successful a coagulated season.

Taylor won connected the PGA Tour for a 4th time, capturing the WM Phoenix Open connected Feb. 11 and Taylor Pendrith of Richmond Hill, Ont., was victorious astatine the CJ Cup Byron Nelson connected May 5 for his first-ever rubric connected the astir competitory men's play circuit successful the world.

"I deliberation the Olympics was decidedly a highlight," said Taylor. "Looking astatine a batch of people's careers, potentially, it's a erstwhile successful a beingness accidental to beryllium capable to beryllium capable to suffice for that.

"[Wife] Andie and I, Corey and [his wife] Malory truly soaked up the full acquisition and conscionable had an awesome clip for the 10, 11, days that we were there. That was definitely, I think, a highlight."

WATCH l Taylor wins WM Phoenix Open:

Pendrith finished the play astatine No. 25 successful the FedEx Cup rankings. Conners was 39th, Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford was 47th, Mackenzie Hughes of Dundas, Ont., was 52nd, and Taylor was 58th.

Pendrith, Conners and Hughes — erstwhile teammates astatine Kent State University — played for Mike Weir of Brights Grove, Ont., astatine the Presidents Cup. The International Team mislaid to the U.S. 18.5-11.5 astatine Royal Montreal Golf Club.

It was the archetypal clip that 3 Canadians played successful the best-on-best event.

"I deliberation seeing truthful galore Canadian players successful the men's sides play truthful good was besides a highlight," said Taylor. "[Pendrith], ever since his win, is playing spectacular. Corey, doing beauteous Corey worldly and being ace consistent, Mac's been playing awesome.

"I privation I was connected the Presidents Cup team, but to spot Canada truthful good represented, was an awesome thing. I deliberation Canadian play keeps getting stronger and stronger, truthful I'm blessed to beryllium portion of that."

Taylor, Pendrith, Conners and Hadwin were each successful the tract astatine The Sentry connected Thursday connected the Plantation Course astatine Kapalua, Hawaii, successful the archetypal PGA Tour lawsuit of the caller year.

"It's a speedy start, but it's ever the champion commencement to beryllium successful Maui astatine the commencement of your season," said Taylor, referring to the Sentry's presumption arsenic a signature event. "I'm anxious to get started and get acceptable to go."

Adam Svensson of Surrey, B.C., and Ben Silverman of Thornhill, Ont., volition circular retired the Canadian contingent connected the PGA Tour, bringing the full up to 7 golfers with full-time presumption successful 2025.