It’s something that’s never happened on the LPGA Tour before, but Golf Town athlete Brooke Henderson is excited for the opportunity.
The LPGA Tour is playing back-to-back major championships, with The Evian Championship, in Evian-les-Bains, France, and the AIG Women’s British Open, in Milton Keynes, England.
It’s the first time on the LPGA Tour schedule that major championships will be contested in consecutive weeks, but despite how taxing that is set to be both physically and mentally, Henderson is eager to test her mettle overseas.
“It’s the British Open and The Evian, where usually the conditions are pretty bad. It’ll be rainy, wet, and cold,” said Henderson, “so I feel like we’re going to have to be prepared for that.”
The Evian Championship is up first, where Henderson has notched two top-10’s in the last three years. She has never missed the cut at the Evian Resort Golf Club and was T-10 a year ago (as well as T-9 in 2016). The event has been hosted in September since 2013 but was moved to July 25-28 for 2019. Last year’s event was won by Angela Stanford.
Henderson will come into the week having not missed a cut since May, but in the midst of one of the busiest stretches of the year.
She said earlier in 2019 that her schedule would be full for most of the balance of the summer as she missed two events at the beginning of the year due to illness.
Henderson played six tournaments in a row before taking a week off at the beginning of July.
The two majors come in a stretch of four events in a row before she’ll take a week off prior to the CP Women’s Open, where Henderson will defend her title.
“I’ll be having four in a row then, including the two majors back-to-back, so it’s going to take a lot of mental preparation to get ready,” said Henderson.
After The Evian comes the Women’s British Open, this year taking place at Woburn Golf and Country Club, which last hosted the Women’s British Open in 2016. Henderson will look to improve on her T-50 result that year; however, she did finish T-11 last year.
In 2018 at the Women’s British Open it was Englishwoman Georgia Hall who captured the hearts of her home nation, winning her first major at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, just a few hours north of where she was born.
She told reporters a year ago that she felt she was still learning when it comes to links golf, since the style of golf is just so different. It’s all about patience, she said, and she’s carried that into the two-week stretch this summer, too.
Henderson knows all about winning on home soil, like what Hall did at the Women’s British, and it’s a feat she’d like to repeat at the CP Women’s Open.
But before she gets to Magna Golf Club, she’ll be playing back-to-back majors, with a focus on success, a more comfortable approach to a different style of golf, and some momentum, too.
“I think if I can get my game rolling, maybe I can get some top-10’s right back-to-back,” she said.
Given how things have been going this year, the top-10’s she’s thinking about might actually be victories.