BREAKING: Another star golfer announces his retirement after the 2024 season at age 29.
BREAKING: Another star golfer announces his retirement after the 2024 season at age 29.
LPGA Tour mainstay Lexi Thompson plans to make a career out of it.
Thompson, 29, will retire at the end of the 2024 season, she announced Tuesday. The Coral Springs, Fla., native has 11 career wins on tour, including winning the 2014 Chevron Championship at the age of 19. The U.S. Women’s Open, expected to be Thompson’s last, begins Thursday in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Thompson’s best finish in the tournament was her second place in 2019. Her last LPGA Tour victory also came in 2019 at the ShopRite LPGA Classic in Galloway, New Jersey.
Thompson started her career at a very young age and in 2007 she qualified for her US Women’s Open at the age of 12. She turned professional three years later at the age of 15. Lexi Thompson will retire from professional golf at the end of the 2024 LPGA season.
She is scheduled to address the media in Lancaster at 2:30 p.m. ET ahead of her 18th and final U.S. Women’s Open. In 2015 and 2017, we reached these summits and reached the fourth largest in the world. Last season, the fans watching on television were involved in a well -known incident when they caused expensive refugees on this theme. In a large tournament.