{"id":578312,"date":"2026-04-01T10:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578312\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:14:08","slug":"golf-legend-comes-out-of-retirement-for-shock-major-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578312\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf legend comes out of retirement for shock major return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tOne of the LPGA\u2019s biggest superstars will return for one final swansong this summer\u2026<\/p>\n<p>We thought we\u2019d seen the last of Michelle Wie West on golf\u2019s biggest stage. <\/p>\n<p>But just a month after announcing she will be playing in the inaugural women\u2019s TGL next year, Wie West has confirmed one final swansong at the US Women\u2019s Open this June. <\/p>\n<p>The former LPGA superstar, who won the major at Pinehurst No.2 in 2014, revealed on Instagram she will be teeing it up at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith one final year of eligibility from my victory in 2014 and the Championship headed to an iconic venue that means so much to me, I am excited to announce that I\u2019ll be teeing it up at the U.S. Women\u2019s Open at Riviera in June!\u201d she wrote. <\/p>\n<p>Past champions are given a 10-year exemption by the USGA and Wie West was given a two-year maternity exemption after having two children.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old had spent three years in retirement after waving an apparent goodbye in the 2023 US Women\u2019s Open at Pebble Beach. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the LPGA\u2019s biggest superstars will return for one final swansong this summer\u2026 We thought we\u2019d seen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-578312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}