Major championship season is wrapping up on the LPGA Tour with the fifth of five big-time events on tap, and Golf Town Athlete Brooke Henderson is hoping she can bring home a trophy.

“I would love to win the Women’s British Open,” said Brooke. “Watching the men’s British Open on TV growing up, it was always such a meaningful event and when they announced the ‘Champion Golfer of the Year’ on the 18th green… that’s pretty cool. To be a part of that is definitely on the list.”

Brooke comes into the AIG Women’s Open after taking a week off back at home in Florida after the Olympics. It’s been quite the travelling summer for Brooke, who played the DOW Great Lakes Bay Invitational in Michigan before travelling to France for The Evian Championship, where she finished tied for 25th. She returned to Florida after that before heading to Tokyo to represent Canada at the Olympics, where she wrapped up her competition with a 4-under 67 – her low round of the week.

Brooke headed home to Florida again after the Olympic Games for a bit of a break before heading back across the pond for the AIG Women’s Open.

She has notched eight top-20 finishes so far this season, including a victory at the HUGEL-AIR PREMIA LA Open in April. Her results at major championships this year have also been solid. With four majors under her belt, she has finished inside the top 25 in each of them.

Playing links golf, like what she’ll do at the AIG Women’s Open, has always been an adjustment, she says. Luckily, she has someone very close she can lean on in order to navigate the intricacies of golf in the United Kingdom.

“I’ve always struggled a little bit adjusting to links golf just because it’s so different. I think it’s really important to trust your caddie, so I’m fortunate that I’ve got a very trustworthy caddie,” said Brooke with a smile. “Because the conditions change so quickly and you have to pay attention to everything… you make a good decision and you stick to it.

“I feel more comfortable on links courses than I did earlier in my career. I was able to win in New Zealand, which was a very linksy course and in terrible weather conditions, so I feel like there’s a lot more confidence for me now.”

The AIG Women’s Open (or, the Women’s British Open) is being contested this year at Carnoustie in Scotland. It’s the second time the historic links layout has hosted the Women’s British while being the host course for The Open Championship eight times previous (the course was built almost 200 years ago!).

It was Yani Tseng who won the Women’s Open first contested at Carnoustie, in 2011, while defending champion Sophia Popov made her Women’s Open debut that year as an amateur.

“Honestly, I can’t wait,” Popov told AIGWomensOpen.com last year when asked about the venue for the 2021 Championship. “I love Carnoustie. It’s an incredible course. Carnoustie was the site of my first Women’s Open, so I have great memories there playing as an amateur and I love that place. So it really doesn’t get any better than that.”

“I’m excited to go back and defend my title, but I really don’t want to give this trophy away, so I’m going to do everything in my power to keep it.”

Brooke played Carnoustie as well, in 2012, when she played the British Women’s Amateur as part of Team Canada. She said it’s going to be “nice” to have some course knowledge.

“I remember how there is trouble lurking everywhere,” said Brooke. “Probably the most memorable thing was the bunkers on the 14th hole (called Spectacles). We took a picture in them. They’re extremely deep, so hopefully I can avoid those all week.

“It’s just a different style of play. It’s always very challenging but also very fun!”