Canada's Brooke Henderson poses with the trophy after winning the CPKC Women's Open at the Mississaugua Golf and Country Club in Mississauga, Ont. on Sunday.

When Brooke Henderson won the Canadian national women’s golf championship in 2018 it created a small boom in recreational players taking up the sport.

Canada’s golf community is hoping for a similar result after Henderson won her second CPKC Women’s Open championship Sunday, beating Australia’s Minjee Lee by a stroke.

Golf Canada chief executive officer Laurence Applebaum said that before Henderson’s win seven years ago the sport was experiencing modest growth year over year, but that victory at Wascana Country Club in Regina followed by the COVID-19 pandemic led to huge growth in the recreational game.

“It connected a huge swath

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