The LPGA Tour is returning to Canada!

The CPKC Women’s Open is set to tee off at Vancouver’s Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club, with the first round August 24.

When the game’s best from the LPGA Tour heads to Shaughnessy, the club will become the first in the country to host both the RBC Canadian Open and CPKC Women’s Open this century.

Sean O’Hair won the 2011 RBC Canadian Open at Shaughnessy in a playoff.

The women’s open was set to be contested at Shaughnessy in 2020 but it was pivoted to 2023 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Together with our friends at CPKC, we are very excited to treat golf fans to the much-anticipated return of the CPKC Women’s Open to Vancouver,” said Tournament Director Ryan Paul. “Golf fans in this community have gotten behind our National Open Championship and major professional golf in a significant way and with a strengthening field, engaging fan activities and digital enhancements to the tournament experience, we can’t wait to host a can’t-miss summer celebration.”

The field features nearly all of the game’s top players including newly minted world No.1 Lilia Vu. Vu, who captured the AIG Women’s Open for her second major-championship title of the season, has won three times in 2023.

Each of this year’s major champs will be heading to Vancouver along with Jin Young Ko and Nelly Korda – who, along with Vu, have held the No. 1 spot in the world this year.

Paula Reto is among eight past CPKC Women’s Open champions who are all set to join the field including Golf Town Athlete Brooke Henderson, who won in 2018, along with Lydia Ko, who will be chasing a record fourth CPKC Women’s Open title.

Reto topped the field at Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club a year ago, beating Korda and Hye-Jin Choi by one. Ko finished fourth, two shots back of Reto’s winning total. It was Reto’s first LPGA Tour title.

“I’m excited to celebrate with everybody, and I’m glad my first win was here in Canada for sure,” Reto said.

“It’s something I’ll always remember.”

Canadian golf fans, meanwhile, will always remember Brooke’s big win in Regina in 2018, as she broke a 45-year drought of Canadians attempting to win their national open championship.

Brooke backed that up with a tie for third in 2019 at Magna Golf Club before returning to be the face of the event in 2022 at her home club in Ottawa.

She’ll head to Vancouver looking to finish her year with a bang at the event that means the most to her on the LPGA Tour schedule. While there are still three months remaining on the 2023 LPGA calendar, Brooke knows a nice week at home will mean plenty of positives as she sprints to the finish line.

“I’ve always said this event is like the sixth major for me on the LPGA Tour so it’s definitely a week I’m trying to peak at. I’ve held that trophy once and I’d love to do it again,” Brooke said in July when she visited the course and Vancouver for a pre-tournament event.

“The CPKC Women’s Open is just a sea of red normally (with fans), so what a cool moment that is at our national open. Winning this event in 2018 was a highlight of my career and I’d love the opportunity to try to do it again.”

Seven Canadians have earned exemptions into the CPKC Women’s Open, led by Alena Sharp – who won earlier this season on the Epson Tour and is playing in her 18th career national open. Vancouver resident and Shaughnessy member Victoria Liu has also accepted an exemption to compete at her home golf club.

They’ll join Brooke and fellow Canadian LPGA Tour member Maddie Szeryk in the field.

Gabriella Ruffels, who has won three times on the Epson Tour this season, is also amongst the sponsor invites.

While there will be plenty of fun on-site activations, none will be as exciting as “The Rink” fan experience. After making its CPKC Women’s Open debut last year in Ottawa, the hockey-themed hole will be situated on the par-3 17th hole at Shaughnessy.

Between the stellar field – including Golf Town Athlete Brooke Henderson looking for her second win! – the amazing golf course, and the exciting action ahead, it should be a great week in Vancouver.