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Brooke Henderson's top-10 streak ends at eight at LPGA Texas Shootout

Brooke Henderson's top-10 streak ends at eight at LPGA Texas Shootout

It was a heck of a run while it lasted.

And by all indications, there are more streaks to come from Brooke Henderson.

The teenager from Smiths Falls, Ont., finished tied for 19th at the  LPGA Volunteers of America Texas Shootout on Sunday, ending an impressive string of eight straight top-10 finishes.

She was halfway to the LPGA record of 16, set by Australian Karrie Webb over the 1999 and 2000 seasons before hitting a snag in Texas and will now have to start all over again. But considering that Henderson is 18 and in only her second season as a member of the tour, there's plenty of time left to take another run.

Henderson started off the tournament as if a ninth straight top-10 was a given, turning in sub-par rounds of 69 and 68. But she stumbled on Saturday, carding a 2-over 73 to drop down the leaderboard.

Things started to look up on Sunday as Henderson birdied the first three holes at Las Colinas Country Club in Irving, Tex. But a bogey on the fifth and a disastrous double-bogey on the sixth pretty much ended the streak.

She finished with an even-par 71 on Sunday and 3-under 281 for the tournament, 11 strokes behind winner Jenny Shin of South Korea. Shin carded a 4-under 67 on Sunday to pass by American Gerina Piller, who started the day with a two-stroke lead. Piller finished in a tie for second with South Koreans Amy Yang and Mi Jung Hur, two strokes off the pace.

Henderson's amazing streak came fairly quietly, mainly because she has yet to grab headlines by winning  a tournament this year.

But there's no denying that she has shown a consistency uncharacteristic of a teenager.

She started it by finishing second at the Coates Championship on Feb. 3, which was her highest finish of the season. She followed that with two ties for ninth (the Australian Open and HSBC Women's Championship), a tie for fourth at the Founders Cup, three straight tenth-place ties (Kia Classic, ANA Inspiration and Lotte Championship) and a tie for sixth at the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic.

The sizzling start to the 2016 season put her in eighth place on the LPGA money list with $426,664 US heading into the Shootout. Adding $14,648 from the weekend boosts her to $441,312 on the year. She was fifth on the Rolex rankings before the weekend.

Considering that this is her first full year on the tour, that's more than a little impressive.