{"id":1682,"date":"2017-10-02T15:22:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T15:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2017-10-02T15:22:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T15:22:07","slug":"brooke-henderson-wins-mckayson-new-zealand-womens-open-by-5-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/brooke-henderson-wins-mckayson-new-zealand-womens-open-by-5-shots","title":{"rendered":"Brooke Henderson Wins McKayson New Zealand Women&#8217;s Open By 5 Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/brooke-henderson.jpg\" alt=\"Brooke Henderson\" width=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1683\" \/>Ontario\u2019s <strong>Brooke Henderson<\/strong> who turned 20 on September 10 has continued to showcase her skills on the golf course during the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzwomensopen.co.nz\/\">McKayson New Zealand Women&#039;s Open<\/a>. The 20 year old who turned professional back in 2014 won her second LPGA title of this season and her fifth LPGA title overall.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions in were very difficult for all of the players due to strong winds, heavy rain and lightning flashes. <\/p>\n<p>The competition was suspended late Sunday evening due to unsafe weather and players were required to return on Monday morning and Henderson proved to be unstoppable finishing with a 3 under 69 and winning by 5 strokes. Her only competition came from China\u2019s <strong>Jing Yan<\/strong> but Henderson had no difficulties in holding her off and taking the top spot.<\/p>\n<p>Henderson\u2019s first LPGA title this season was in June when she won the <strong>Meijer LPGA Classic<\/strong> in Michigan. This is also the first time that she has won an LPGA title outside of North America and will give her a lot of confidence of performing well in all parts of the world. She received a cheque of $195,000 along with a special feather cloak that was presented to her by a representative of the indigenous <strong>Maori tribe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LPGA<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V4EAuFCuLu8?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In a statement, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brookehenderson\">Brooke Henderson<\/a> said <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#039;m just so happy to win here. My season has been kind of up and down, steady for the most part. I got a lot of questions early in the year but now to get my second wind is great going into the last five events I&#039;m going to play.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Henderson who has over $3 million in career prize money occupied the 8th spot in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolexrankings.com\/en\/rankings\/\">Women\u2019s World Golf Rankings<\/a> in 2016 but has struggled with the pressure and not been very consistent during the last 12 months when has caused her ranking to drop to the 11th spot. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/golf-betting\">Canadian golf<\/a>er said that one of the reasons why she played well in New Zealand was because she felt a lot less pressure at the start of the week and was able to play freely which helped her have a great start.<\/p>\n<p>She had her sister Brittany out with her in New Zealand who served as her caddy and together they did a great job of overcoming the difficult conditions and concentrating on the course. Henderson will want to finish the year on a high and see if she can get back within the top ten world raking by the start of 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ontario\u2019s Brooke Henderson who turned 20 on September 10 has continued to showcase her skills on the golf course during the McKayson New Zealand Women&#039;s Open. The 20 year old who turned professional back in 2014 won her second LPGA title of this season and her fifth LPGA title overall. 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