Lexi Thompson – All about the American professional golfer

Full name	Alexis Noel Thompson
Born	February 10, 1995 (age 27) Coral Springs, Florida, U.S.
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Sporting nationality	United States
Residence	Coral Springs, Florida

Turned professional	2010
Current tour(s)	LPGA Tour (joined 2012)
Professional wins	14

Number of wins by tour:

LPGA Tour	11
Ladies European Tour	1
LPGA of Japan Tour	1
Other	1

Lexi Thompson – Best results in LPGA major championships:

Chevron Championship	Won: 2014
Women’s PGA C’ship	T2: 2022
U.S. Women’s Open	T2: 2019
Women’s British Open	T8: 2016
Evian Championship	2nd: 2015

Achievements and awards:

LPGA Vare Trophy	2017
Race to the CME Globe	2017

 

Lexi Thompson, an American professional golfer, born on February 10, 1995, competes on the LPGA Tour. She became the youngest golfer to ever qualify for the U.S. Women’s Open when she was 12 years old. At age 15, she began her professional career in June 2010. When Thompson won the Navistar LPGA Classic on September 18, 2011, she broke the previous record for the youngest player to ever win an LPGA event. Alexi was 16 years, 7 months, and 8 days old at the time.

She won the Dubai Ladies Masters by four strokes on December 17, 2011, three months later, making her the second-youngest winner of a Ladies European Tour competition. Thompson became the second-youngest LPGA golfer to win a major when she captured her first major title at the 2014 Kraft Nabisco Championship at the age of 19 years, 1 month, and 27 days (she still ranks in the top-5 youngest LPGA major winners).

Lexi Thompson – Family and education

The two brothers of Thompson, Curtis Thompson and Nicholas Thompson, are both full-time professional golfers. Curtis Thompson competes on the Korn Ferry Tour. She was home-schooled and stated that she had “graduated a few months ago” in an interview in September 2012.

Lexi Thompson – Amateur career

In 2007, she qualified for the U.S. Women’s Open as the youngest player at the age of 12. She shot 86-82 at the competition, missing the cut. In 2014, Lucy Li broke the record. Her victory in the Aldila Junior Classic in 2007 made her the second-youngest winner in the history of the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA). She also became the youngest champion of the Junior PGA Championship by winning the Westfield Junior PGA Championship.

Lexi won the U.S. Girls’ Junior in 2008. She qualified once more for the 2008 U.S. Women’s Open and shot 75-77, missing the cut by two strokes this time.

Thompson qualified for the U.S. Women’s Open a third time as a 14-year-old in 2009, making the cut for the first time, and placing tied for 34th, +11 (71-73-78-73=295).  She later qualified on Monday for the Navistar LPGA Classic, where she shot 65 in the opening round and tied for 27th place, 12 strokes back of the champion Lorena Ochoa.

In 2010, Thompson spent the first half of the year as an amateur. She competed in the Women’s Australian Open as an amateur and placed T16 (+3), 12 strokes back of the winner Yani Tseng. At the 2010 Kraft Nabisco Championship, she made the cut, placing T24, +2 (74-72-73-71=290), 15 strokes behind Yani Tseng, the champion.

Additionally, she prevailed over Laetitia Beck in a sudden-death playoff to win the 2009 Verizon Junior Heritage. In the Curtis Cup competition, she competed for the victorious United States team and went undefeated, winning four matches and tied in a fifth. She declared her belief that her game was prepared to transition to the LPGA Tour the following week and turned professional.

Amateur highlights

• 2003 – Won U.S. Kids Golf World Championship
• 2004 – Won U.S. Kids Golf World Championship
• 2007 – second round, U.S. Girls’ Junior
• 2007 quarterfinalist, U.S. Women’s Amateur
• 2008 – Won U.S. Girls’ Junior (final 5 & 4 over Karen Chung)
• 2009 third round, U.S. Girls’ Junior
• 2009 semifinalist, U.S. Women’s Amateur