Two-time major champion comes out of retirement for final event
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This week’s Chevron Championship will see a multiple-major champion lastly bow out.
Having announced her retirement from golf final September, Stacy Lewis is making a short lived comeback for this opening major of 2026.
Lewis received the primary of her two major triumphs on the Chevron Championship again in 2011, earlier than doubling her flagship tally two years later by successful the Women’s Open.
“Never in a million years would I have thought this journey playing golf would still be going in 2025,” Lewis wrote in a social media statement“but the time has come to put the clubs away.”
The previous champion is again this week, although, and has opened up on his resolution to make a short lived return to competitors.
“So, the tip of final yr I hoped to finish the yr in Florida the place I may get some relations there to observe me play, however my final event ended up being in Hawaii, so it was simply me and my daughter there.
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“So, just wanted to give my parents one more chance to see me play and family members and friends,” she stated.
“Then this match, it was my first win. It means so much to me. And then rising up right here in Houston, I performed all around the metropolis. I did not play Memorial once I was a child however performed a lot golf on this space that simply felt like the right place to return again yet one more time and name it good.
“But I will say the last several weeks of trying to get ready to play again just kind of affirmed my decision to retire. Looking forward to getting through this week and then going back to normal life.”
Incredibly, Lewis will play this week whereas pregnant together with her second little one, and can have her husband on the bag.
“I guess this week has become more of a celebration than it was originally supposed to be, especially with being pregnant and life changing again,” the previous winner commented.
“I did not know what I used to be going to do in retirement however I assume I do know what I’m going to do now.
“But I’m looking forward to the next few years of raising a kid at home and not cleaning bottles in hotel rooms and trying to travel every week. So looking forward to that.”
