Former world No. 1 Stacy Lewis announced Wednesday that she will retire from the LPGA at the end of the season.<\/p>\n
Lewis, now 40, said in a statement on social media, ahead of this week\u2019s Walmart NW Arkansas Championship, that her body \u201chas told me it\u2019s time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNever in a million years would I have thought this journey playing golf would still be going in 2025,\u201d she wrote, \u201cbut the time has come to put the clubs away.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lewis underwent surgery the summer before her freshman season at Arkansas in 2003 to address childhood scoliosis. She had been diagnosed at the age of 11 and wore a plastic back brace 18 hours a day until she graduated from high school.<\/p>\n
Lewis still blossomed into one of the best players of her generation, coming of age at a time when the LPGA needed new stars following the retirements of Annika Sorenstam and Lorena Ochoa. She became a 13-time winner on tour, captured two majors and twice earned Player of the Year honors.<\/p>\n
Though she has won just once in the last eight years, Lewis has been a thought leader on tour and twice captained the United States at the Solheim Cup (to a win and tie) with a new-age approach geared toward analytics.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve cared for the LPGA tour like it was my own child,\u201d she wrote, \u201cand I\u2019m so proud of the progress we have made, but to my fellow players: we aren\u2019t done! I hope you all continue to push the tour forward and do all that you can to help on and off the course.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world No. 1 Stacy Lewis announced Wednesday that she will retire from the LPGA at the end…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-163638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}