Golf Town Athlete Brooke Henderson is curious about just one thing as she prepares for the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.

How is she going to top what she did in 2016?

Brooke, who won her first-ever major championship the last time the Women’s PGA was contested at Sahalee Country Club, called that tournament a “perfect week.”

She started as the first-round leader – and made a hole-in-one – and then topped Lydia Ko in a playoff after firing a final-round 65, the low round of the day. Both Ko and Brooke were bogey-free in their Sunday rounds to finish at 6 under for the week. Brooke made an eagle on the par-5 11th and added birdies on No. 13 and No. 17.

Ko couldn’t make birdie from No.11-onwards and the two headed into a playoff.

The playoff lasted just one hole as Brooke rifled her approach to inside three feet and she calmly rolled in the birdie – as Ko missed her 20-foot attempt on No. 18.

“There’s going to be a lot of expectations and it’ll obviously be very difficult to do the exact same things that I did in 2016 but I love that golf course,” Brooke said. “It’s so beautiful. Sahalee means ‘high heavenly ground’ and there is just a lot of great energy and great things about the atmosphere.

“I’m excited to return there because that event. It really changed my life and my career.”

Brooke has five top-10 finishes so far this season and is in fine form with all parts of her game as she looks to win another major championship.

“This year has been a good year so far,” Brooke said. “I got off to a hot start few months ago. Kind of cooled off the last little while, but feel like I’m trending in the right direction, which is a good thing, right towards the heat of the summer where we have a lot of the big events.”

Ruoning Yin is the defending KPMG Women’s PGA Championship winner, having topped Yuka Saso by one shot at the storied Baltusrol Golf Club. Saso won the U.S. Women’s Open – her second triumph at that major championship – earlier this season, while Nelly Korda won the Chevron Championship (the first major of the year) – her fifth straight victory. Korda would go on to win her next start on the LPGA Tour as well, the Mizuho Americas Open and is in the midst of an all-time campaign.

The KPMG Women’s PGA Championship is also the cut-off date for the Olympic qualification for the women’s golf competition in Paris this summer – a major opportunity within a Major competition.

Brooke has already locked up her Olympic spot – again – for Canada. She’ll return to Sahalee with good vibes only and the desire to try to repeat what happened almost a decade earlier.

“I’m looking forward to hopefully taking all the things I did learn and a couple of the course-management strategies from 2016 and use them again – and to try to do something special again!” Brooke said.

The 2024 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship goes from June 20-23.