Brooke Henderson calls it her “hockey mentality.”
The 25-year-old Canadian arrived in Naples, Florida, for this week’s CME Group Tour Championship battling an upper-back injury and having played just one competitive round in six weeks. She had withdrawn after 18 holes of last week’s Pelican Championship and then canceled her pre-tournament press conference on Wednesday based on recommendation that she “rest as much as possible.”
But Henderson, still in the race for the LPGA’s Rolex Player of the Year Award, wasn’t about to let her season end without hitting a shot and giving herself a crack at that $2 million first-place prize.