Stacy Lewis, the former world number one who captained the U.S. to victory at the 2024 Solheim Cup, will retire from the Ladies Professional Golf Association at the end of the 2025 season.
The 40-year-old Lewis, who counts two majors among her 13 wins on tour and twice earned Player of the Year honors, said in a social media post ahead of this week's LPGA event in Arkansas that her body "has told me it's time."
"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 said in the post. "I will finish out the 2025 season, but this will be my last on the LPGA."
Lewis was diagnosed with scoliosis as an 11-year-old and for the next seven years wore a back brace 18 hours a day. Surgery in 2003 f