In case you were wondering, Brittany and Brooke Henderson absolutely give each other gifts at Christmas time. A very typical sisters-at-Christmas exchange, Brittany says with a laugh.
Yes, of course, they are technically employer-employee, but at the end of the day, they’re sisters first.
“She’s my employer technically but it’s never changed the nature of our relationship which is pretty amazing. Some people say, ‘I don’t know how you do that. If I worked with my sibling I wouldn’t make it a week,’” Brittany says with a big smile. “But it’s just always worked for us.”
Brooke and Brittany Henderson head into the holiday season and 2026 with plenty to be happy about. It was a funny campaign, results-wise, on the LPGA Tour this year as Brooke couldn’t quite string together four really good rounds and get the finishes they were hoping for – although she was awfully close for a lot of the weeks.
Then, however, the CPKC Women’s Open came along and everything changed.
“It was such a highlight,” Brittany says. “It turned a fairly mediocre year into, ‘Wow, what a great year!’
“It’s funny how one special week can really do that. It completely turned us around and made all the difference in the world.”
Brooke closed out her season with another great finish at the CME Group Tour Championship before teeing it up alongside Corey Conners at the Grant Thornton Invitational.
Both she and Brittany were quick to say that, despite not notching the high finishes they had come to expect, they were grateful through it all.
“Having it not be our best year (for most of the season) I feel like you are almost more grateful because you can see the other side of it. We have been able to keep up some pretty amazing play for 11 years,” Brittany says. “At the start (of Brooke’s career) if you had said this is what we would have done, we would have been like, ‘we’ll take it.’ So, when you aren’t necessarily playing your best, you realize ‘this is really awesome’ and we’re really grateful to be doing this.”
Brooke’s win at the CPKC Women’s Open guaranteed her a spot in the season finale, where only the top 60 in the Race to CME Globe standings tee it up, and a return to the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions to open 2026. Brittany says it’s been interesting to see the changes in the kinds of fields those events get – when even some of the top players in the game don’t earn their way into those milestone tournaments that Brooke and Brittany hold in such high regard.
Brittany points to Lydia Ko in 2023 as a perfect example. Ko struggled mightily with her game and slipped all the way to No. 100 in the Race to CME Globe standings, missing out on the CME Group Tour Championship in the process. However, in 2024, she burst out of the gates, won three times, and stamped her entrance into the LPGA Hall of Fame in the process.
The high from the win is something Brittany says they’ll be holding on to for a long while as they enter their holiday break and return to action again in mid-January.
“Golf is hard and it’s not always going to be what you want it to be,” Brittany says, “but it was pretty cool to just keep at it this year and keep feeling the gratitude for the opportunities we had – and really take advantage of the good play at the CPKC Women’s Open. That was awesome.
“That realization of being grateful to have this life was pretty cool.”
The duo will spend time together and with their significant others – Brittany with her husband Zach and Brooke with her boyfriend, Ricky – over the holidays (and do that aforementioned gift exchange), but the season opener in Florida will be here before you know it and another year together inside the ropes is set to unfold.
“With my history of having her caddy for me – we just understand that role and what everyone expects out of it and we still manage to be best friends at the end of the day,” Brittany says. “It’s been a pretty special relationship.”