After seven seasons, 129 starts, nine top-10s and one win, Elizabeth Szokol has played her final LPGA event.

The 30-year-old Szokol announced her retirement Friday at Pelican Golf Club, where she bogeyed her final hole to miss The Annika cut by a single shot.

Szokol had finalized her decision to hang it up back in July, targeting her hometown event at her home club as the perfect place for a sendoff. Playing in Friday afternoon’s final threesome alongside two of her best friends on tour, Caroline Inglis and Brianna Do, Szokol carded five birdies but also six bogeys to shoot her second straight 1-over 71 and walk off the final green at 2 over.

“I was good until I saw Caroline and Bri crying, to be honest,” Szokol said. “So, I think it kind of hit me more than I expected. I was pretty cal

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