Brooke Henderson opens with four straight birdies, leads LPGA's Standard Portland Open
But a 7-under 65 that got her into a three-way tie for the lead at the 2025 Standard Portland Classic may be the spark Brooke Henderson needs for the home stretch to the CME Tour Championship. Only the top 60 make the LPGA season finale. Henderson is 53rd with 11 events left in the regular season after this week.
Henderson was energized by her red-hot start at Columbia Edgewater Country Club in Portland, Oregon.
"It was a really awesome start, four birdies in a row. I mean, that's an ideal start any week, especially here. I love coming back to this place. I do have a lot of great memories. A lot of good things happened to me here," she said, alluding to her back-to-back wins in Portland in 2016 and 2017. "So just tried to keep it rolling after that great start and was able to capitalize with three birdies on the back nine to get a little bit closer to the top of the leaderboard."
Henderson started on the back nine. After those four straight birdies, she parred the next nine holes before closing with birdies on Nos. 5, 7 and 9.
Her hot play certainly caught the eye of LPGA Hall of Famer Nancy Lopez, who joined the Golf Channel booth for a stretch of Thursday's coverage.
"I'm a huge fan of Nancy and I talked to her earlier this week. She gave me some great advice, so feel like maybe that gave me a little bit of a boost in the right direction," Henderson said. "But, yeah, you know, just a couple par-5s. No. 10 was a par-5, No. 12 is a par-5, so I was just trying to capitalize on those and the other two were a bit after bonus."
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