Cool putter proves costly for Canada’s Henderson

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SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – Canada’s Brooke Henderson stood by the side of the 14th green at Le Golf National on Saturday and practised her putting motion several times before walking to the next hole.She never did regain her touch on the greens after a 67 a day earlier gave her an outside shot at a medal.Henderson threatened midway through the final round after reeling off three straight birdies, but her putter didn’t co-operate when she needed it.“I gave myself a lot of good opportunities,” Henderson said. “I feel like if I had made two or three different putts throughout the round then I feel like the momentum would have been more in my favour.“It might be a different story standing here.

But overall I feel like it was a good fight these last two days.”At one point Saturday, the 13-time LPGA Tour winner was in a tie for fourth place and within striking distance of gold medallist Lydia Ko of New Zealand.A bogey on No. 13 stung and a missed seven-footer for birdie on the par-5 14th hurt too.

She was just short of the green in two and had a chance to get a stroke back.“I hit that chip and I thought it had a chance to go in,” she said. “I was shocked when I got up there and it was seven feet short.”After missing that putt, any remaining hope was snuffed when she bogeyed the 15th.

Henderson (71) finished at 3-under-par 285, seven strokes behind Ko.Germany’s Esther Henseleit (66) took silver at 8 under and China’s Xiyu Lin (69) picked up bronze at 7 under. The only other Canadian in the field, Alena Sharp of Hamilton (73), was tied for 42nd place.“It feels like I played really terrible but I still shot one under,” Henderson said.

“So it was kind of a mixed bag. I feel like I hit a lot of great shots and sometimes