Lexi Thompson has announced her retirement from 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 straight appearance at the US Women’s Open. She was 12 years old when she became the youngest golfer to ever qualify for the US Women’s Open in 2007.
Thompson has 15 wins since turning pro in 2010, with her only major victory coming at the 2014 Chevron Championship. She has not won on the LPGA Tour since 2019.
On tour this season, Thompson has finished T16 and T3, but also missed four of her last five cuts, including the previous three tournaments heading into this week’s US Women’s Open.
After winning the US Girls’ Junior Championship in 2008, Thompson claimed the prize at the 2009 US Women’s Open at the age of 14. Two years later, she earned the first of her 11 LPGA victories at the Navistar LPGA Classic.
Thompson also represented the United States at the Solheim Cup six times, winning twice in 2015 and 2017, as well as the U.S. Olympic team in 2016 and 2021.
Last October, Thompson became the seventh woman to compete in a PGA Tour event when she competed in the Shriners Children’s Open. She tied for the lead after posting a 69 for her second round, following a 73 in Round 1, but missed the cut by two strokes.
