Golf Town Athlete Brooke Henderson is looking to come back stronger at the U.S. Women’s Open this year. And she’ll have a chance to do exactly that a venue that seemingly is perfectly suited for her game!

Brooke and the rest of the LPGA Tour’s best are headed to Erin Hills Golf Course in rural Wisconsin for the U.S. Women’s Open in 2025, after the course hosted the men’s U.S. Open in 2017.

Brooke is excited about the opportunity to tee it up at Erin Hills, with it being a previous host of the best male golfers in the world. But there’s also a sweet connection to her home club, as the same architecture group (Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry) re-worked the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club in 2015.

“I got to meet (them) and gave me a book on Erin Hills! It’s such a huge name of a golf course, with the men playing there. I’ve heard it’s pretty tough and I know it’ll be a great challenge. I’m really looking forward to it,” Brooke says.

Brooke has had a handful of great rounds so far in 2025 and has four top-25 finishes so far. This is a busy summertime stretch for Brooke with four major championships coming up in quick succession along with, of course, the CPKC Women’s Open.

She says the week of the U.S. Women’s Open is an important one for her confidence.

“If you can finish in the top 10 at any major, but especially the U.S. Women’s Open, you’re set up very well for the rest of the year – points, money, rankings, it makes a huge difference with how you perform at the U.S. Open,” Brooke says. “You see how your overall confidence is and believing in yourself and where your game is at, basically for the rest of the summer. It sets a lot of things up!”

Brooke missed the cut at last year’s U.S. Women’s Open, won by Yuka Saso.

Saso captured her second U.S. Women’s Open title at Lancaster Country Club in Pennsylvania thanks to a tidy final-round effort that included four birdies in a five-hole stretch on the back nine. Her performance secured a three-shot victory over Hinako Shibuno, with Saso becoming the youngest player to win the championship twice, having previously triumphed in 2021.

Mao Saigo won the first major of the year, the Chevron Championship, emerging victorious from a five-person playoff. Nelly Korda, who, like Brooke, missed the cut at the U.S. Open last year, remains as the top-ranked golfer in the women’s game, but hot on her heels is Jenno Thitikul.

Thitikul is tops on the Race to CME Globe standings through 2025 thanks to an incredible six top-10s in just eight events, including a victory at the Mizuho Americas Open.

A hearty handful of the game’s best have already started their 2025’s incredibly well, and now Brooke is hoping to join the group at the top with a big-time major title. And with a purse that will be at least $12 million (with at least $2.4-million available to the winner), one of the richest prizes in women’s golf is up for grabs.

“There’s quite a bit of pressure surrounding that event, but it’s one day at a time, one shot at a time, and what I could do correctly, right now, to put myself in a good position for success. It would be amazing to get a top finish, especially with how I played last year,” Brooke says. “It would be nice to come back stronger this year!”

There are set to be four other Canadians in the field including Celeste Doa of Quebec, Anna Huang and Leah John of Vancouver, and up-and-coming star Vanessa Borovilos of Etobicoke. Borovilos, a freshman at Texas A&M, captured the 2025 Chevron Collegiate and was the runner-up in the 2025 Clover Cup. The long-time member of Team Canada captured the Girls 11-12 Division of the Drive, Chip & Putt Championship at Augusta National in 2018.

The U.S. Women’s Open goes May 29 – June 1.