Canadians involved in a big week for golf

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Two significant events involving top Canadian players — one on the women's side, one on the men's — tee off Thursday. Here's what to know about them, plus the latest developments in the PGA Tour vs. LIV Golf battle:

The CP Women's Open is back.

The LPGA Tour's lone Canadian stop returns from a two-year, pandemic-induced hiatus this week at the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club in the nation's capital. Though it's no longer a major championship, the tournament formerly known as the Canadian Women's Open (and about a million other names as sponsors have shifted in and out) still offers one of the richer non-major purses on the tour and attracts most of the best players.

Eighteen of the top 20 in the Race to the CME Globe — a season-long points competition that determines who gets to compete in the Tour Championship — are expected to play in Ottawa. That includes world No. 1 (and defending CP Women's Open champion) Jin Young Ko of South Korea and the winners of all five 2022 majors.

Among that group is the woman who will be the overwhelming fan favourite this week. Canada's Brooke Henderson is ranked fifth in the world after winning the second major title of her career last month at the Evian Championship in France. With 12 victories on the LPGA Tour — including the 2018 CP Women's Open in Regina — the 24-year-old from Smiths Falls, Ont., has already won more major-tour events than any other Canadian golfer in history.

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Henderson is one of 15 Canadians slated to compete in Ottawa. Maude-Aimee Leblanc (No. 111) is the