Korda favourite to win CPKC Women’s Open, Henderson not far behind looking to repeat

The 2026 CPKC Women’s Open tees off Thursday at Royal Mayfair Golf Club in Edmonton.

Already with four wins this season, American Nelly Korda enters the event a +440 favourite to win.

Korda’s wins in 2026 came during the first eight events she played. During those eight events she had four wins, three second-place finishes, and one result outside the top five, a T8.

Since then, Korda has finished inside the top 10 twice in five starts, including a missed cut.

Korda is the only player in the event priced shorter than 10-1 to win.

Meanwhile, Canadian Brooke Henderson is just one of five others priced at 20-1 or shorter to win.

Henderson, looking to win this event for the second-straight year, has two top-three finishes in her last three starts after going 10 straight without a Top 20.

Henderson has the best odds of the 15 Canadians teeing it up in this event, with Anna Huang (+8000) and Aphrodite Deng (+10000) the only other two coming in shorter than 200-1.

An Opinion You Didn’t Ask For

Okay now I can have some fun.

I had boots on ground last year for this event and tipped Brooke Henderson at 50-1 on this very website before she went on to win.

This year my boots remain firmly in Toronto, and with this event taking place in Edmonton, my course scout has been done via the internet.

After scanning the flyovers of all 18 holes, this course looks tight!

So with that in mind I’m playing outrights on Hyo Joo Kim (13-1) and Ruoning Yin (20-1) at the top of the board.

Kim, already with two wins this season, enters the week fourth in driving accuracy, seventh in strokes gained: Tee to Green, and third in putts per round on the LPGA Tour.

Meanwhile, Yin is third SG: T2G, and 25th in driving accuracy on the LPGA Tour. The 23-year-old has five top 10s in 15 starts this season and is looking for her first win on tour since the 2024 Maybank Championship.

As for a longshot, I have circled Helen Briem at 225-1.

Briem, 21, has struggled this season on the LPGA Tour, missing six cuts in 11 starts.

However, she enters this week 12th on the LPGA Tour in SG: T2G and if this course is going to play as tight as I’m thinking she might have an opportunity to create separation with her distance.

Despite the struggles in North America this year, Briem appears to be what I like to call a “professional winner.”

Winning is a skill in golf – some golfers have it, others never develop it. Briem appears to have that extra gear. As an amateur she was the first German to win The R&A Girls’ Amateur Championship, winning the 36-hole final by a record 12&10 margin.

After reaching World No. 1 on the amateur rankings, Briem turned pro and has six wins in less than three years with two of those coming on the Ladies European Tour.

Briem’s most recent win came in May at the 2026 Open de France Dames where she beat the field by a margin of seven shots.

That margin of victory was the largest at that event since Korda won in 2019 by eight shots. No other player has won that tournament by more than five shots since Trish Johnson in 1996.

I’ll be honest, I didn’t know this lady existed 24 hours ago, but now I think this price at 225-1 is simply too good to pass on.

Winners win, so why can’t this be the week that Briem breaks through?