How do you build on a history-making season? If you’re Brooke Henderson, you try to go make more.

The LPGA Tour season kicks off this week with the Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions just outside Orlando, Florida – an event Brooke has earned a spot in thanks to her two victories in 2019.

The first came in April, when Brooke defended her title at the LOTTE Championship in Hawaii. That win gave her eight in her young LPGA career.

Fast-forward to June and Brooke was on the cusp of something special Sunday at the Meijer LPGA Classic. She would go on to win by one shot after a rain-soaked start to the week compressed the schedule and forced the LPGA Tour to sprint to the finish.

That victory – her second in three years at the Meijer event – would give her nine in her career. It’s a record (on the LPGA or PGA Tour) for Canadians, and it’s a win total she’s hoping to build on in 2020.

Brooke has won twice in each of the last four seasons on the LPGA Tour – a streak she’s hoping to continue this year.

Not only has Brooke made a habit of winning, but she’s become one of the steadiest golfers on the LPGA Tour as well.

She notched 13 top-10 finishes last year, including a fifth-place result at the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship, a runner-up at the Pure Silk Championship, and a T3 at the CP Women’s Open just north of Toronto in August, as she tried to defend her title from 2018.

Her scoring average of 69.55 again let her accomplish one of her biggest goals to start to 2019 – keep it below 70. That’s another key goal she’s hoping to accomplish in 2020.

The 69.55 number was good enough for third on Tour in 2019. She also was second on Tour in Total Birdies (405), Rounds in the 60’s (52), and Sub-Par Holes (421).

Brooke’s putting has been the one part of her game she’s recognized as being an area she wants to work on more, and in 2019 she improved significantly in years’ past.

She jumped from 72nd in Putting Average in 2018 to 34th in 2019 and after spending most of the holiday season in Florida working on her game, she’s more ready than ever to try to get even better on the greens.

Although her results didn’t show it, Brooke says she was “really close” at the major championships in 2019. For her, not only are there the five majors but she considers the CP Women’s Open and the CME Group Tour Championship as majors as well. Brooke’s best result at the big five was a T17 (she notched that at both the ANA Inspiration and The Evian Championship).

“This year I feel like, and this is going to sound crazy, but I feel like I was close. I was just sort of missing that one special round at the beginning of the week,” said Brooke of her major-championship runs in 2019. “Other than that, I think I received the positive energy at the start and it could have been different.”

The biggest event for Brooke, outside the majors and returning to Canada to play the CP Women’s Open in Vancouver, is to play for Canada at the Summer Olympics in Japan this August.

It’s all-but-official that Brooke will play alongside Alena Sharp for Canada (just like in 2016) and Brooke has that week already circled on her calendar as a big one.

“It’s definitely an honour to go and compete for your country, especially at the Olympics. Alena and I have talked about it quite a bit and are both looking forward to it,” said Brooke. “As it looks like we both are going and representing Canada which is pretty cool!

“Rio was really awesome,” continued Brooke, who finished seventh in the 2016 Olympics. “To be with the best athletes in the world is an incredible experience. I’m definitely looking forward to Tokyo and hopefully I can play well going into it.”

Brooke said because the LPGA Tour plays some of its schedule in Asia, she’ll know what to expect more this year versus 2016, when playing in Brazil was new for everyone.

“I feel like this time around I’ll have a little bit of a clearer idea of what it’s going to be like.”

From Japan back to Canada, Europe to the United States, it’s clear Brooke Henderson is ready for another successful season.

Good luck in 2020, Brooke!