The 2024 LPGA Tour season is drawing nearer to an finish with every month and every event passed by, and meaning ladies’s golf legend Lexi Thompson’s full-time keep on tour can be coming to an finish.Â
Thompson introduced on the U.S. Ladies’s Open that she can be stepping again from full-time play on the LPGA Tour, and although she did not use the phrase retirement, she undoubtedly will not be on the circuit like she has since she turned skilled in 2010 on the age of 15.
Since then, golf followers have proven their love and respect to Thompson, particularly this month when she was representing america for possible the ultimate time of her profession on the Solheim Cup.Â
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Lexi Thompson of Group USA traces up a putt on the twelfth inexperienced in opposition to Group Europe through the Solheim Cup 2024 on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Membership. (Aaron Doster-Imagn Pictures)
As somebody who has had the honour of sporting the Stars and Stripes since 2008 as a Junior Ryder Cup member, with two Olympic Video games in 2016 and 2020 alongside the way in which as properly, Thompson mentioned the “emotional week” in Gainesville, Virginia.
“That week generally is my favourite event out of my complete profession,” Thompson informed Fox Information Digital whereas additionally discussing her partnership with Maxfli heading into this 2024 season. “I all the time say, any time I can signify my nation, I need to be on that workforce.Â
“The Solheim Cup has made so many reminiscences that I’ve cherished alongside my profession and so many friendships that I am so grateful for. There’s simply nothing prefer it, having the ability to be part of a workforce representing your nation.”
LPGA GOLFER LEXI THOMPSON, 29, ABRUPTLY ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT, CITING MENTAL HEALTH
Thompson acquired a raucous ovation when she was launched on the primary tee of her first match, and after stable play by Group USA, they got here away with the 15.5-12.5 victory to win the Cup for the primary time since 2017.Â
“To get the win on U.S. soil, no phrases can describe that feeling,” Thompson stated. “And to be alongside my teammates and play below Stacy Lewis, the assistant captains, they’re all ladies I’ve regarded as much as. It is such an enormous honor and the followers have been simply unbelievable. There’s nothing just like the followers there.”
Lexi Thompson of Group USA poses for a photograph with the trophy after defeating Group Europe on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Membership. (Aaron Doster-Imagn Pictures)
Thompson additional defined her love for representing america all through her profession.Â
“It is meant every thing to me,” she stated. “Week in and week out, I all the time really feel like I am representing my nation simply being an American. However it’s simply totally different if you step foot on the market, get up, put your nation colours on, step on that first tee and listen to, ‘Representing the USA’ after which your title.
“Listening to the cheers and chants – as an athlete you all the time dream of these moments and the way all of your laborious work places you into that second. All of the stress and all these expectations, that is what you reside for. To tug off all these photographs below that form of stress, there’s nothing prefer it. These moments are what I’ve lived for.”
Once more, Thompson didn’t use the phrase retirement, so the 29-year-old nonetheless has the chance to signify her nation down the street if the chance arises.
Lexi Thompson (Aaron Doster-Imagn Pictures)
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But when the Solheim Cup was the ultimate one, she went out with followers screaming her title and sporting an American flag on her shoulders whereas holding up the trophy.
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