The LPGA Tour’s first full-field event of 2025 includes a foursome of Canadians as Golf Town Athlete Brooke Henderson looks to continue her momentum at the beginning of a new LPGA Tour season.

Savannah Grewal of Mississaugua, Ont., Maude-Aimee Leblanc of Sherbrooke, Que., and Alena Sharp of Hamilton are all in action as well this week at the Founders Cup presented by U.S. Virgin Islands in Bradenton, Florida.

They join Brooke in the field, who competed at the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions, the limited-field season opener at Lake Nona Golf and Country Club.

Savannah just barely re-earned her LPGA Tour card for 2025 via her finish on the season long Race to CME Globe standings a year ago. She finished 48th in the final full-field event of the LPGA Tour season in November to end the year at No. 97 in the standings. The top 100 earned LPGA Tour status for the following year. She needed to make the cut in that final event, The Annika driven by Gainbridge, and did so on the number!

Savannah earned LPGA Tour status via a tie for 10th at the LPGA’s Q-Series finale in December of 2023 and this year marks her second LPGA Tour season. She said at the end of last year she’s looking forward to applying everything she learned last year into her second season.

Alena and Maude-Aimee re-earned LPGA Tour status via Q-Series in December.

Alena, who will enter the 2025 campaign as, essentially, the oldest competitor on the LPGA Tour (there is one golfer who is one month older than her) finished tied for 21st while Maude-Aimee finished tied for 24th – both well inside the magic number to get status for 2025.

Alena has been a fixture on the LPGA Tour since 2005 and has also found success on the Epson Tour, including a win in 2023 at the Champions Fore Change Invitational. She also represented Canada for the third time at the Olympics last summer in Paris.

Maude-Aimee, meanwhile, continues her march back from retirement in the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic. Maude-Aimee decided to give golf another shot as 2020 chugged along and all has turned out well for her after that decision. She now looks to have a bit more of a consistent campaign on the LPGA Tour this season after making eight cuts in 19 starts last year.

Nelly Korda returns to action as the defending champion at the Founders Cup, having defeated Lydia Ko in a thrilling playoff a year ago to win for the first time in 2024 – before going on to win six more trophies, including Player of the Year honours.

Korda and Ko are two of 25 major champs in the field, along with a trio of past champions, and a foursome of 2024 Rolex First-Time winners, including CPKC Women’s Open winner Lauren Coughlin.

Alena and Brooke are two of 40 Olympians who are also teeing it up.

Lexi Thompson, who retired from full-time competition last year, will play her first event of 2025 on what should be a very limited schedule.

Bradenton Country Club will once again play host.