Brooke Henderson has been talking about how she’s felt close for nearly all of 2025.

After finally stringing four good rounds together last week at the Meijer LPGA Classic, the Canadian star comes into the third major of the year confidently saying that momentum is on her side.

“I feel like I’ve been saying I have been trending in the right direction for a long time, so it was nice to make some birdies … kind of get the momentum and kind of get things rolling in the right direction felt good,” Henderson said Sunday after she notched her second top-15 finish of the year.

At the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, Henderson has managed to have the most impressive string of results of any of the five LPGA majors – including her maiden major triumph in 2016. She was granted a sponsor invite into this championship after she just turned professional in 2015 and parlayed that into a tie for fifth the year before her win.

In fact, in Henderson’s career at the KPMG Women’s PGA, she has finished outside the top 25 just once in 10 years. She has never missed the cut and finished tied for 22nd last year.

Henderson said in a recent interview that since she is a past champion at the KPMG Women’s PGA, she’ll often she her face on posters or, her success from 2016 will be posted about on social media. Her head is hung a little higher through the week, she said, because of those great memories.

But this season, Henderson has struggled – statistically, at least – with her ball-striking. She is 34th on the LPGA in greens in regulation, for example. On the surface that’s a solid spot, but it’s well off her top form (she spent more than a half-decade in the top five in that stat) and when you layer in strokes gained: approach (where she is 117th on the LPGA Tour), an obvious question remains.

Henderson said last week that she was still getting adjusted to being able to wear contact lenses after her eye surgery last September.

“It’s a been a big adjustment going from nothing to glasses and then to contacts. It’s definitely been a big change, but I think I’m just continuing to get more comfortable and it makes a huge difference when it’s rainy or windy,” Henderson said.

This year’s KPMG Women’s PGA will be contested at Fields Ranch East at PGA Frisco, the new home of the PGA of America. There are two courses on the Frisco, Texas property, with the major host venue designed by Gil Hanse. The East course hosted the Senior PGA Championship in 2023 and will also host the men’s PGA in both 2027 and 2034.

This will be the second major the LPGA will have in Texas this year – with the Chevron Championship taking place just outside Houston in April – and Henderson knows navigating the June heat in the Lone Star State will be key, along with finding fairways.

World No. 1 Nelly Korda said Tuesday she injured her neck while hitting a shot out of the rough during her practice round Monday and was seen sporting KT therapy tape.

“It’s getting better,” Korda said, “but it was not very good (Monday).”

Korda, who won the KPMG Women’s PGA in 2021, sprinted through 2024 with six wins prior to the KPMG Women’s PGA (she won once more later in the year en route to Player of the Year honours). But somewhat remarkably, the LPGA Tour has had 15 winners in 15 events this year – including two first-time major champions in Mao Saigo (Chevron) and Maja Stark (U.S. Women’s Open).

“It’s just – it’s just golf. You kind of just have to ride the wave, and the competition is getting better and better every year,” Korda said.

Korda’s No. 1 ranking is in jeopardy this week if Jeeno Thitikul can win and Korda finishes tied for 11th or worse, as the Thai golfer has been a model of consistency through the last 12 months. She has six top-10s already this season, including a win, and sits first in strokes gained: total. Last year she had 12 top-10s in 17 starts, including seven in a row to close out 2024 – highlighted by her win at the season finale, the CME Group Tour Championship.

She has, however, yet to win a major.

“It would be really great to win it, and definitely I can tell that it would be like everyone’s dream to win a major,” Thitikul said.

It was already a dream-come-true for Canada’s Henderson, and at the midpoint of the year, it would be a great jumping-off point for her to find the winner’s circle once again at the major she’s had the most success at.

“I think going into (the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship) I feel like my confidence is in a pretty good spot compared to where it has been most of the year,” Henderson said.

Henderson will tee it up alongside Stark and Saigo, the first two major winners of 2025, for her Thursday and Friday rounds.

Savannah Grewal of Mississauga, Ont. is the other Canadian in the field.

Amy Yang won last year’s KPMG Women’s PGA by three shots over a trio of golfers, including a pair of former world No.1s in Jin Young Ko and Lilia Vu.