Remarkable, amazing, inspiring, historic. Those are the words her fellow competitors reserve for Korda, and starting tonight (Australian time), she’ll have a chance to add a new chapter to her best year as a professional.
Thompson may be only 29 years old, but she’s been playing competitive professional golf since she was 15 and has the equivalent of what would be a full career in many other sports under her belt before her 30th birthday. What seemed clear, as she explained her decision, is that the lifestyle has worn on her.
Thompson will retire at the end of the year. The news was first shared by the USGA ahead of this week’s US Women’s Open, where Thompson, 29, will be making her 18th start in the championship.
Golf under lights presents a number of challenges, both logistically and for the golfers themselves. That said, both McIlroy and Homa say they’d be open to an under-lights event at the PGA Tour level.
There’ll be lots of fun banter and entertaining golf to watch, but for the golf nerds, so much to learn from four of the best golf swings in the world.
Lexi Thompson needs a big week this week in Florida at the penultimate LPGA tournament of 2023 if the 28-year-old doesn’t want it to be the last week of her season. And she’s going to have to do it while not at full health.
Against the desert backdrop Tom Kim continued to prove why the high aspirations he carries have not been cast upon him but earned, with a performance that puts to rest any notion last year’s feats were nothing more than a ‘heater’ and begs to ask what lies on the horizon.
When play was suspended for darkness in round one of the Shriners Children’s Open in Las Vegas, sponsor’s invitation Lexi Thompson was ahead of 36 players on the leaderboard. She was also trending on Twitter.
It happens every year at the Shriners Children’s Open in Las Vegas. PGA Tour players meet and interact with kids who are sometimes suffering grave or debilitating illnesses. This year, for the first time, the young girls among that group will see someone who most resembles them.
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