About the CP Women's Open
One of Canada's premier annual sporting events and a regular highlight of the LPGA Tour, the CP Women's Open returns to the Toronto area in 2019 for the first time in nearly 20 years. The thrilling seven-day event begins August 19 at the Magna Golf Club in Aurora.
Canada's sole stop on the 2019 LPGA tour follows an especially exciting year for the nation's top golf talents and their many fans. Before an adoring crowd at the Wascana Country Club in Regina on August 26, 2018, Brooke Henderson became the first Canadian to win her country's national golf championship since Jocelyne Bourassa in 1973, which was also the year of the tournament's founding. With Henderson's seventh tournament win, the young golf phenomenon from Smiths Falls, Ontario, edged closer to tying Sandra Post's Canadian record of eight LPGA victories.
Henderson is set to join the LPGA's best players at the latest edition of the CP Women's Open. Founded in 1973, the event is routinely attended by the sport's most prominent players. Recent editions have included appearances by such stars as 2017 Rookie of the Year Sung Hyun Park, LPGA Tour winners Michelle Wie and Brittany Lincicome, and former World No. 1s Ariya Jutanugarn and So Yeon Ro. Another of the sport's most exciting talents — New Zealand's Lydia Ko — began an extraordinary run of success with her first professional tour win at the 2012 edition. She won it twice more in 2013 and 2015.
Serving as host for the 2019 tournament is the Magna Golf Club, which Golf Canada CEO Laurence Applebaum calls "a truly magnificent facility which will prove to be a world-class experience for the stars of the LPGA Tour." The course itself draws raves from CP Women's Open Tournament Director Ryan Paul. "It's wide open," he said, "but the bunkers are big and it's going to be a great challenge for the players."
With all those elements in place, the 2019 CP Women's Open is set to offer spectators the same kind of excitement they felt watching Brooke Henderson's triumph. For the tournament's defending champion to be appearing at her first LPGA appearance in her home province makes the occasion all the more historic.