Lexi Thompson ‘retired’ last year. Now she is back in quarrel

They would be forgiven for thinking that Lexi Thompson was done playing Pro Golf. It was only 11 months ago that she received a press conference in Open Women, USA, emotionally announcing a pension … of kinds.

There was a touch of the lost nuance for most people that day in Lancaster, without. And part of this may have been in distribution-a day with tears of eyes on the same tour that helped start her career. Thompson said 2024 would be her last year playing full -time in LPGA Tour. Much of the Golf world believed it was her swan song, Full Stop One Tournament responded by making their second round “Lexi Thompson Day”.

But Thompson clearly felt there was little space she could engrave between full -time AND full pension. She explained to my colleague Jess Marxbury in A story of the cover of Golf magazine. There would be no back-back, and fewer tours played in general. But you will see it there on the tournament, and we have, with three Thompson already starts in 2025.

So maybe at this point we should not be so confused by its constant presence in the tournament. Nor its place on the manager’s table now in the first main of the LPGA season, Chevron Championship.

Through the 36 holes, Thompson is entitled to the thickness of the quarrel in Chevron, the main championship she won 11 years ago, the only major victory of her career. She will start her third round in four under, just a few shocks from the supremacy in Carlton Woods.

“It’s not like I’m just going here to show your face,” Thompson said after shooting a 5-year-old. “I’m still very competitive, and, yes, but just trying to enjoy a few times I will play.”

This feeling was what she shared 11 months ago, that the full -time play career led to less enjoyment of play from time to time. “Being here can be too,” She said at the timetears in her eyes. “May be lonely.”

Thompson is playing this week with the same composition that she had last summer, her brother Curtis, having to be loved for her, the same sponsors in the bag. It ended the 2024 season ranked 50th in the world and has played only one event a month since. It was a T13 in the founders’ Cup, a T38 in the Ford Championship and a lost cut two weeks ago in LA. On March 1, she posted a grind video in the range of running with the title“Retired from full time … get it right.” Who was the intended recipient of this is unclear, but the message can be for everyone. Thompson is not made by trying to compete.

“Entering the week. If I’m honest, I wouldn’t hit him well last week,” Thompson said on Friday. “I really didn’t know what to expect. But from Monday to Wednesday I don’t think I’ve ever practiced it hard and how I worked with my brother Curtis in my bag and father, and just going back and forth with things that might work.”

She said the last two days have been fun, but Friday had to be much more fun than Thursday. Thompson made six birds to navigate the steering chart in what has been a difficult road most of the week. Only one player scored a best total Friday.

After the round, she offered a touch of clarity of what this half retirement life means. In short, she will do about 10 beginnings this season, she thinks, so six or seven others this season. She has benefited her mental health, Thompson said, but also gave her more time away from the game without guilt. When asked what is the biggest difference between Thompson full-time and Thompson part-time, she said, “More vacations for sure. And let’s not feel bad for them. Yes, I have a lot of greater holidays in the middle of events than a normal player, but it is good my 15th year.

And taking more time in front of television. Thompson was asked if she has received any hobbies, and it sounds like she got more a habit … of wild watch.

“You know, it’s good to just – I don’t know – I’ll just watch a show, just sit in my bed,” Thompson said.

“I have never really had the opportunity to do it so much, so it’s good to do it. But I will probably get a hobby. I’m looking in voluntary in an animal shelter or something like that. I love animals. Something to keep me busy.”

For now, that show is pulse, in Netflix. “Very good so far,” she says.

Kinda like her Performance in Chevron.