Golf Town Athlete Brooke Henderson is as motivated as ever to get off to a great start once again at the major championships on the LPGA Tour in 2025 as the biggest names in women’s golf prepare to tee off at The Chevron Championship.
The Chevron Championship, the first major of the year on the 2025 LPGA calendar, was where Brooke notched her best major result last season. She finished T3 – just three back of Nelly Korda’s winning total.
Brooke shot a Saturday 64, setting the course record at The Club at Carlton Woods. It was also the lowest 18-hole score at the tournament since it moved from Rancho Mirage in 2023 and moved her up 20 spots in the leaderboard.
Her third-round 64 a year ago tied her career low at a major championship.
“I’m really looking forward to getting back to Chevron, especially after such a great finish last year!” Brooke says. “I’m hoping to really build on that prior success that I had. And playing in the final group on Sunday was so much fun, and I’d love to get back into contention and back into that position.
“Knowing that I have played well on that golf course, I feel like, gives me some confidence.”
The Chevron Championship moved to Texas after a half-century in the Californian desert and Brooke says she and Brittany have, over the last two years, done a “pretty good job” of trying to learn the course as best they can and trying to get a good strategy in place.
Brooke says her first two days last year were consistent (she shot matching rounds of 71) and then she was thrilled to get on a “heater” for the third round. Brooke needed only 23 putts on that day, and if it wasn’t for a late bogey on the par-4 16th hole she would have shot even lower.
“I know there’s lots of birdies though there, which is great, but it’s just kind of a golf course where you need to play smart at times, but other times you can be aggressive,” Brooke says. “When things get going, you can really make a lot of birdies. It’s a good thing to remember because it’s different at most major championships where you are just trying to make pars and not make any big mistakes.
“At the Chevron you can be a little bit more aggressive at times and try to chase some birdies.”
Since it’s the first major of the year, Brooke says while the atmosphere at any major is different, it’s especially true at The Chevron. It’s what everyone has been training for since the last major the year prior – to try to perform the best on the biggest stages in women’s golf.
“It’s kind of a cool energy – everyone is very focused. You can tell everybody’s pretty excited,” Brooke says. “There’s a different energy the moment you walk onto the course Monday morning.”
Korda finished at 13-under – two ahead of Maja Stark – to win her fifth event of the LPGA Tour season (already!) in 2024. In fact, it was her fifth straight LPGA Tour title, matching Nancy Lopez and Annika Sorenstam as the only players to accomplish this feat.
Korda ended up winning two more times in 2024 en route to capturing Player of the Year honors. Her triumph at The Chevron Championship was her second major title.
The 2025 Chevron Championship goes April 24-27 from The Woodlands, Texas with Brooke joined by two other Canadians – Alena Sharp and Savannah Grewal – in the field.