Lexi Thompson has announced that she will retire of golf after the 2024 LPGA season.
Thompson, 29, made the announcement days before the start of the U.S. Women’s Open, which begins Thursday at Lancaster Country Club in Pennsylvania.
It will be Thompson’s 18th consecutive appearance at the US Women’s Open. She was 12 years old when she became the youngest golfer to qualify to play in the US Women’s Open in 2007.
Thompson has 15 wins worldwide since turning professional in 2010, with her only major win coming at the 2014 Chevron Championship. She hasn’t won on the LPGA Tour since 2019.
This tour season, Thompson T16 and T3 have finishedbut she also missed four of her last five cuts, including the previous three tournaments before this week’s US Women’s Open.
After winning the 2008 U.S. Women’s Junior Championship, Thompson made the cut at the 2009 U.S. Women’s Open at age 14. Two years later, she earned the first of her 11 LPGA victories at the Navistar LPGA Classic.
Thompson also represented the United States in the Solheim Cup six times, winning twice in 2015 and 2017, as well as the US Olympic team in 2016 and 2021.
Last October, Thompson became the seventh woman to compete in a PGA Tour event when she participated in the Shriners Children’s Open. She finished even after posting a 69 in her second round, following a 73 in Round 1, but she missed the cut by two strokes.
