Lexi Thompson announces retirement from golf

Lexi Thompson, a 29-year-old golfer, has confirmed by way of the USGA that she plans to retire on the finish of the 2024 LPGA Tour season. Her choice got here as a shock to many, contemplating Thompson is barely 29 years outdated, and plenty of anticipated her to construct her profession on this Tour and sooner or later. 

Nonetheless, Thompson clearly had causes for making such a call. 

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Her profession has had an fascinating trajectory, as she appeared on the US Girls’s Open on the age of simply 12. Since then, 17 years have handed. 

Three years later, this good golfer started her skilled profession on the age of 15, and her first victory got here a yr later (in 2011). Already then, many anticipated that Thompson would construct an important profession and grow to be a revered title on the earth of golf.  The LPGA needed to change its guidelines concerning age, primarily for her but in addition for others, to safe her a full card, which ensured her victories three extra instances. 

Taking a look at her successes on the Majors, she has solely managed to win one Main, the Chevron Championship in 2014. Trying on the Girls’s British Open, she was not significantly profitable, as her finest outcome was T8 in 2016. Thompson got here very shut in any respect three different Majors, together with the Girls’s PGA Championship, the place she completed T2 in 2022. The identical scenario occurred on the US Girls’s Open along with her finest rating being T2 in 2019. And in the end, the 29-year-old golfer completed 2nd on the Evian Championship in 2015. 

It should be admitted that at many factors throughout her profession, Thompson was unfortunate, and she or he definitely may have achieved extra. Nonetheless, her profession continues to be respectable, as she has achieved 11 victories on the LPGA Tour, 2 victories on the Women European Tour, and 1 victory on the LPGA of Japan Tour.

 As a junior, Thompson was additionally profitable, profitable the U.S. Ladies’ Junior Championship in 2008. As an adolescent, she made nice achievements and prompted shock amongst golf followers. She had the chance to characterize her nation, the US, on the Solheim Cup six instances.

USGA assertion: No matter is subsequent for Thompson, whether or not or not it contains golf, she has a legion of followers

The USGA emphasised in its assertion that Lexi’s aggressiveness and enjoying type are the explanation why many golf followers worldwide respect her. Moreover, her charisma, openness, and keenness for golf are different the explanation why Thompson has gained enormous sympathies amongst followers of this sport. 

Thompson’s choice continues to be not definitive, as there’s a likelihood that she could probably change her thoughts. Nonetheless, the leaders of the USGA want her luck whatever the path she chooses. The woman who began her profession as a younger woman and sparked the curiosity of many in girls’s golf has determined to probably depart this recreation. However, her enjoying type and character will stay memorable, no matter occurs.

“Lexi’s aggressive, highly effective type of play earned her the respect of hundreds of thousands of followers, however it was the gracious method she handled these followers that received their love. 

No matter is subsequent for Thompson, whether or not or not it contains golf, she has a legion of followers who can be rooting her on. The one-time little one star walks away from aggressive golf simply as she entered the sport, along with her head held excessive over her 6-foot body, striding the golf course golf very a lot on her personal phrases and in her personal type.”- USGA wrote.

Lexi Thompson may reveal the explanations for retirement

It’s anticipated that this 29-year-old golfer will announce her choice tomorrow and probably reveal the the explanation why she is going to finish her profession. Some speculate that the potential cause could possibly be the truth that Thompson entered this career too early and has been a part of the large scene for years. If you enter a sport as an adolescent and face all of the challenges, typically it may possibly ‘eat’ you after a number of years. 

Nonetheless, Thompson has at all times accomplished what she knew finest, believing in herself and her successes. She has at all times supplied golf followers with what they needed from her. Lexi is the rationale why many women have launched into the identical path, which could be her major satisfaction after ending her skilled profession.

Thompson wasn’t significantly profitable this season, contemplating that the Ford Championship performed in late March this yr was her solely optimistic outcome, the place she completed T3. At instances, it appeared like Thompson was uninterested in enjoying golf, however we’ll see what occurs subsequent. We want her luck and success whatever the choice she makes. For years, she has introduced pleasure to the ladies’s golf scene.