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Stacy Lewis, the captain of the United States’ 2024 Solheim Cup-winning team, says she will retire from golf at the end of the LPGA season.<\/b><\/p>\n
The 40-year-old won 13 LPGA titles, including two majors, and led the United States to victory over Europe in last year’s Solheim Cup.<\/p>\n
She also spent 25 weeks as world number one and was named LPGA Player of the Year in 2012 and 2014.<\/p>\n
Lewis’ achievements came despite being diagnosed with curvature of the spine at the age of 11 and spending the next seven years wearing a back brace for 18 hours a day. <\/p>\n
“Never in a million years would I have thought this journey playing golf would still be going in 2025, but the time has come to put the clubs away,” Lewis wrote on social media. <\/p>\n
“I am going to miss the LPGA Tour family and this part of my life, but my body has told me it’s time.”<\/p>\n
Lewis’ two major victories were at the 2011 Chevron Championship and the 2013 women’s British Open.<\/p>\n
She represented the United States four times at the Solheim Cup as a player and twice as captain – including last year’s dramatic 15\u00bd-12\u00bd victory<\/a> in Virginia – as well as finishing in a share of fourth place at the 2016 Rio Olympics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n