GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Brooke Henderson made it a special Father's Day.
With father and coach Dave Henderson and other family members watching Sunday, the 19-year-old Canadian won the Meijer LPGA Classic for her fourth LPGA Tour title, holding off Michelle Wie and Lexi Thompson by two strokes in cool, windy conditions.
"It was just like the perfect day," she said. "My dad is my coach, he's a great father to both my sister (caddie Brittany) and I, and he's one of our best friends. He's with us all the time, and he gave me a lot of lines early in the week that I didn't know, that I wouldn't normally take without him there. But he said, 'If you want to win and you want to contend, you need to take these lines off the tee.'
"I did that and I had an advantage over the rest of the field all four days. So this win, I say it's for him, but it really is for him because I probably wouldn't have done it without him."
Henderson closed with a 66 on the Blythefield layout that was reduced to a par of 69 - the fifth hole was played as a par 3 instead of a par 5 - the final two rounds because of flooding.
Wie finished with a 65, and Thompson had a 69.
Henderson finished at 17-under 263 and earned $300,000. She led after each of the first two rounds, shooting 63-67 at a par of 71, and had a 67 on Saturday to drop a stroke behind Thompson.
Henderson won twice last year, taking the KPMG Women's PGA Championship for her first major, and successfully defending her title in the Cambia Portland Classic.
Henderson had three birdies in a bogey-free round. She birdied Nos. 7 and 8, while Thompson faltered.
Second-ranked Lydia Ko had a 68 to tie for 10th at 12-under. No. 1 Ariya Jutanugarn, coming off a playoff victory last week against Thompson and In Gee Chun, had a 69 to for 22nd at 9 under.