{"id":261817,"date":"2026-04-22T22:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/261817\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:38:09","slug":"stacy-lewis-returns-from-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/261817\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacy Lewis returns from retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Stacy<\/p>\n

Stacy Lewis, show in last year’s Chevron Championship, is playing one last time in the event this week at Memorial Park.<\/p>\n

Sarah Stier\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Growing up playing golf on Houston-area courses set the tone for Stacy Lewis<\/a>. The path led to a standout career at The Woodlands High School and later at Arkansas.<\/p>\n

From there, she embarked on a long professional career, winning two major championships and later being chosen to captain the American team in two Solheim Cups.<\/p>\n

It has been a remarkable ride for Lewis, a longtime advocate for the LPGA Tour.<\/p>\n

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What: Chevron Championship, first of five majors played on the LPGA Tour.
Where: Memorial Park Golf Course, 1001 East Memorial Loop Drive.
When: Thursday-Sunday.
Defending champion: Mao Saigo.
Purse: $8 million. Winner\u2019s share: $1.2 million.
TV schedule: Golf Channel: Thursday-Friday; NBC: Saturday-Sunday.
Tickets: for information visit: www.thechevronchampionship.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Among Lewis\u2019 13 tour victories is the 2011 Chevron Championship. Another highlight was throwing a ceremonial first pitch at Wrigley Field. On Saturday, Lewis will throw out the first pitch at Daikin Park before the Astros\u2019 home game against the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s Chevron Championship runs Thursday through Sunday at Memorial Park Golf Course in Houston. The tournament brings together 132 of the top women golfers in the world for the LPGA\u2019s first major of the year.<\/p>\n

Lewis announced her retirement last fall. But the 41-year-old is back in her hometown to play one final event.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt means a lot to me,\u201d said Lewis, a two-time Rolex Player of the Year. \u201cI played all over the city. I didn\u2019t play Memorial when I was a kid, but I played so much golf in this area that it just felt like the perfect place to come back one more time and call it good.<\/p>\n

NEW COURSE: What LPGA stars think of Memorial Park<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cBut I will say the last several weeks of trying to get ready to play again just kind of affirmed my decision to retire. I\u2019m looking forward to getting through this week and then going back to normal life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The timing is right for Lewis to step away from playing professional golf full time. She chose the 2026 Chevron Championship for personal reasons. Pregnant with her second child, Lewis will have her parents and many friends \u2014 not to mention fans \u2014 in attendance. Her husband, Gerrod Chadwell, who leads the Texas A&M women\u2019s golf team, will be on her bag.<\/p>\n

This week has become more of a celebration than originally expected, especially as she prepares for her second child. Lewis said she is looking forward to the next few years raising her children at home \u2014 and not cleaning bottles in hotel rooms. She also won\u2019t miss the travel.<\/p>\n

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Playing in Houston Golf Association events as a youth helped Lewis learn to compete in heat and wind.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the weather gets bad, I play better,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cI think that\u2019s why I won in Scotland a couple times in my career and played well all over the world. My game was able to travel, just kind of growing up in this area.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lewis won the AIG Women\u2019s British Open in 2013 and captured the Ladies Scottish Open in 2020.<\/p>\n

Her contributions to the game have inspired many LPGA Tour players \u2014 on and off the course.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI hope they have seen what I\u2019ve done behind the scenes to help the tour and the little things,\u201d said Lewis, who played in four Solheim Cups and later captained the Americans twice. \u201cI\u2019ve tried to instill that in the players, especially those Solheim players \u2014 just trying to get them to see how they can help outside of just playing golf.<\/p>\n

\u201cI try to lead by example and do the right thing, trying to get other people to follow. I care a lot \u2014 probably too much at times. But I want to see this tour be successful, and I\u2019ll stick around as much as they\u2019ll let me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nelly Korda is expected to contend at the Chevron Championship. The world No. 2 has represented the United States in four Solheim Cups, two under Lewis\u2019 captaincy.<\/p>\n

HOUSTON EXPLAINED: The Stacy Lewis story<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve really enjoyed getting to know Stacy through the Solheim Cup and how amazing of a leader she is,\u201d said Korda, the 2024 Chevron champion. \u201cWhat I\u2019ve been really impressed by is how much she cares about the tour and how invested she is.<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe\u2019s had such an amazing career \u2014 as a player, a mother, a Solheim Cup captain. I know she\u2019s not stopping there, so it\u2019s been an honor to play under her, and I can\u2019t wait to see what else she does.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emotions are expected to run high for Lewis as she wraps up a career that includes 118 top-10 finishes. She hopes to make the cut and play the weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope it\u2019s on Sunday,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cThat\u2019s my goal \u2014 for it to be Sunday and not Friday. But I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m just excited. It\u2019s not sad. There were times I thought about retiring before, and it was sad. But I\u2019m more excited about it now.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you go along in your career, it becomes about the people \u2014 seeing all the caddies, the players, the staff. It becomes more about the people as you get older, and that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to miss the most. I\u2019m going to have a lot of my people here, so I\u2019m excited.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stacy Lewis, show in last year’s Chevron Championship, is playing one last time in the event this week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-261817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}