{"id":144129,"date":"2025-09-17T21:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/144129\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T21:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:43:06","slug":"stacy-lewis-us-solheim-cup-winning-captain-to-retire-from-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/144129\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacy Lewis: US Solheim Cup-winning captain to retire from golf"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stacy Lewis, the captain of the United States’ 2024 Solheim Cup-winning team, says she will retire from golf at the end of the LPGA season.<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old won 13 LPGA titles, including two majors, and led the United States to victory over Europe in last year’s Solheim Cup.<\/p>\n

She also spent 25 weeks as world number one and was named LPGA Player of the Year in 2012 and 2014.<\/p>\n

Lewis’ achievements came despite being diagnosed with curvature of the spine at the age of 11 and spending the next seven years wearing a back brace for 18 hours a day. <\/p>\n

“Never in a million years would I have thought this journey playing golf would still be going in 2025, but the time has come to put the clubs away,” Lewis wrote on social media. <\/p>\n

“I am going to miss the LPGA Tour family and this part of my life, but my body has told me it’s time.”<\/p>\n

Lewis’ two major victories were at the 2011 Chevron Championship and the 2013 women’s British Open.<\/p>\n

She represented the United States four times at the Solheim Cup as a player and twice as captain – including last year’s dramatic 15\u00bd-12\u00bd victory<\/a> in Virginia – as well as finishing in a share of fourth place at the 2016 Rio Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stacy Lewis, the captain of the United States’ 2024 Solheim Cup-winning team, says she will retire from golf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-144129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}