Canada's CPKC Women's Open once again named LPGA Tour's tournament of year

The CPKC Women's Open has won the LPGA Tour's highest tournament honour for the second consecutive year.

The event, hosted Aug. 24-27 at Vancouver's Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club, was named the back-to-back winner of tour's tournament of the Year at the LPGA's annual year-end tournament awards Wednesday night.

"We really have a secret sauce," tournament director Ryan Paul told The Canadian Press at the CME Group Tour Championship, the final event of the LPGA Tour season. "It's really an incredible golf tournament. You've got the best players in the world a rope-line away from you, but outside the ropes there are so many great things that you can see and do."

The sponsor nod was a culmination of the tournament's partner programming like the Brooke Brigade fan zone. Unique for this year — and specially recognized — was a junior clinic at the Musqueam Golf and Learning Centre for First Nations youth hosted by star-in-waiting Rose Zhang. Zhang became the first golfer in 72 years to win in her pro debut on the LPGA Tour when she captured the Mizuho Americas Open in June.

The volunteer award stemmed from a new initiative where every player, caddie, and staff on site at Shaughnessy was given a poker chip to give to a volunteer who they recognized were going above-and-beyond their call of duty. The poker chip could be redeemed for prizes. There were more than 1,300 volunteers this year.

"A number like that you can see how important they are to the success of the event," Paul said. "Without them we don't have a golf tournament."

American Megan Khang won the 2023 CPKC Women's Open in a dramatic playoff over former world No. 1 Jin Young Ko. It was her first LPGA Tour win.

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