Brooke Henderson, who has won more professional golf tournaments than any other Canadian, celebrates her latest win Sunday in Mississauga. (Photo: LPGA X)

The winningest professional golfer in Canadian history showed both Mississauga and the sports world this past weekend just how she earned that distinction.

Brooke Henderson, 27, shot a final-round four-under-par 67 on Sunday to win the 2025 CPKC Women’s Open at Mississaugua Golf and Country Club.

The Smiths Falls, Ont. native forged ahead of Australia’s Minjee Lee (ranked No. 4 in the world) by a single stroke on the 6,661-yard, par-71 course on Sunday to finish at 15-under for the tournament and claim her 14th victory on the LPGA Tour and first in more than two-and-a-half years.

It was also Henderson’s second time winning the CPKC Women’s Open. She first won the tournament in 2018 in Regina, at the time becoming the first Canadian in 45 years to win the Canadian national women’s golf championship (Jocelyne Bourassa, Shawinigan, Que., won in 1973).

“This one, I think, might be the longest in between victories, so for that reason it makes it super special,” The Canadian Press reported Henderson as saying immediately following the tournament, which for the first time was held in Mississauga. “To be able to win the Canadian Open, the CPKC Women’s Open, for the second time is so special.”

The 14 professional tournament victories for Henderson, who joined the LPGA Tour in 2015, keeps her well atop the field with most victories ever by a Canadian professional golfer.

Sending a big #CheersToTheChamp to Brooke Henderson after her win in Canada 🇨🇦

The 2023 @HiltonGrandVac Tournament of Champions winner will be making her return in 2026/2027 pic.twitter.com/yMJKBWD38V

— LPGA (@LPGA) August 25, 2025

Heading into Sunday’s final round, the top Canadian and Lee, who has 11 LPGA Tour wins to her credit, were deadlocked at 11-under, three strokes ahead of the field.

As the tournament’s final pairing on Sunday, they had huge crowds following them throughout the day on the river-valley course.

Henderson, who’ll turn 28 on Sept. 10, is expected to climb to 26th on the LPGA Tour’s points list, putting her in a position to join the World Team at the Hanwha LIFEPLUS International Crown in late October and play in the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship in late November.

She collected $412,500 (USD) of the total $2.75 million purse up for grabs at the Mississauga tournament.

Japan’s Mao Saigo finished third at the 2025 CPKC Women’s Open at 11-under while Akie Iwai, also of Japan, finished fourth at 10-under after having led after each of the opening two rounds of play.

Next-best Canadians were Maude-Aimee Leblanc and Aphrodite Deng, the 15-year-old amateur from Calgary who was at or near the top of the leader board following rounds one and two. They finished at four-under, in a 20th-place tie with five others.

Defending CPKC Women’s Open champion Lauren Coughlin (U.S.), ranked 14th on the LPGA circuit heading into the weekend, was two-over after Friday’s second round and failed to make the cut.

We couldn’t have drawn it up better ourselves 🥹@HopeBarnett_ recaps the final round of the @cpkcwomensopen right here on #LPGANow 👇 https://t.co/wIIlyj8Gbd

— LPGA (@LPGA) August 25, 2025

Mississauga native Savannah Grewal, 23, was also among the Canadian contingent of 16 competing at the tournament. She was six-over after two rounds and also failed to make the cut.

The lone Mississaugan at the tournament, Grewal joined the LPGA Tour last year. Her top rookie-season finish was a fourth-place tie at the 2024 Blue Bay LPGA tournament in China.

In total, a 156-player “world-class field” teed off last Thursday morning at the 2025 CPKC Women’s Open. It’s the first time the LPGA Tour event was held in Mississauga.

Founded in 1906 as a nine-hole course before being extended to a full 18 holes three years later, the Mississaugua Golf and Country Club (yes, the correct spelling of the golf club is slightly different than that of the city) has hosted six Canadian Open championships as part of the PGA Tour — in 1931, 1938, 1942, 1951, 1965 and 1974.

Located on Mississauga Road steps north of the QEW, it has also hosted many Canadian amateur, women’s and senior tournaments over the decades.

— with files from The Canadian Press

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