Lexi Thompson made a change of life. Now, it is in hunting in another major

Frisco, Texas – Lexi Thompson has been here before. Not in Fields Ranch East in PGA Frisco. This is the first.

But the 30-year-old is not a stranger to climb the main championship tables. No stranger to put themselves in a position to catch a drought with a large title now in the 11th year.

Wounds are well documented. The four -shot sentence in the 2017 Ana inspiration, now called the Chevron Championship, which deleted its superiority and led to an eventual play. The five -stroke leader she left to slide into the last round of Open Womens Open of 2021 at the Olympic Club. Bogeys back-back at the end of the 2022 kpmg women’s PGA Championship to lose in Gee Chun by one.

Since its only main victory, Thompson has 17 Top 10 in the largest stages of women’s golf. She has had a chance, but has found ways to undress.

But Lexi Thompson is once again in quarrel in a big championship this week after posting 72-70 in the first two rounds in PGA Championship for KPMG women. Thompson left the gates during the first round of Thursday; It was three of 11 holes, but led three birds to return home to return to and then played its first 17 holes on Friday in three under the day before Bogey of the day crashed it into two under the tours.

While the winds wreaked havoc on the field and Texas Heat tested their mental hardness, Thompson played smart and controlled golf. She chose 1,727 shots from tee, 1,494 in greens and 0.961 in access. It hit the drives and used a sharp wedge game to place six -foot, three -legged and 11 -legged bird footage, all of them capitalized. She rolled into a 43 -legged wig in 10 to continue her moment. Its put in the 14th hole 14 went throughout the hole before it falls.

After all, Thompson entered the club two blows of 18 -holes Jeeno Thitikul, who did not yet have to remove. It was a weekend of big quarrel Its now reduced program.

“I think the experience always helps, but I think just an issue to feel good about your game, get out there, be safe and have good days there,” Thompson said after her round. “I think experience is just a bonus, of course, but we are all here and we have that experience playing under pressure and against the best in the world, so we know what it is like. It is just a matter of his behavior on the table.”

Thompson announced last season that It would leave by playing a full -time program. While it was not a “pension”, Thompson made it clear that we will see less of it on the course while she prioritizes other things and allows herself not to worry about how she will “perform”. it detailed her decision in a landing With our Marshury Marshury last fall.

Despite the decision not to play a full schedule, Thompson has still played seven events this year and will remove it next week before making a long break.

But Thompson’s career shift was never about not playing; It was more to take control and do things according to its conditions. She still quarreles in her craft. She said that the days of practice in diplomas this year have been probably the most difficult she has ever been grinding. But she also gives herself time to relax, watch television shows and prevent golf from getting all the oxygen in her life.

So far, Thompson’s change seems to be paying dividends. She put herself In quarrel in the first major of the yearChevron Championship and will enter the weekend in PGA Frisco to the main position for finally Get Major No. 2.

When asked if she feels like she had less to lose after calling on her schedule, Thompson said, “I want to say that. Still, when I’m home, I’m quarreling and practicing and still working on my game. Whenever I take it above saying I’m leaving a full time, I want to compete and I do. I just want to be fully ready every time I say.

With Thompson by providing a late Saturday in another major, you can bet fans will accumulate in her group in PGA Frisco and you will definitely try to do it beyond the finish line. They know its story. They have watched her grow from a teenager’s beacon in the LPGA superstar. They have looked at her triumph and stumble. They understand the weight of the great expectations that have not been met – of a career perhaps unfulfilled.

A winning Sunday would give Thompson the power to write the beginning of its next chapter (final?) In Golf. It can be a narrative change. A punitive of heritage.

Thompson will not allow her mind to wander in what Sunday would say if she was the last woman standing in Fields Ranch East. There is a lot of golf, many demons to exorcate.

“I think it’s just something I will do a blow at a time,” Thompson said. “When you think ahead of time, it just takes you, so I will just hug the moment. I can go out and hit some extra shots in the range, make sure I’m feeling well to go on the weekend and just hope for the best.

“That’s all I can do.”

There are 36 holes to go to PGA Frisco. The heat index promises to increase, the winds will rotate and the test will intensify.

But Lexi Thompson has what came to: Another great chance in the main title no. 2.