Lexi Thompson’s season to forget mercifully nears end
The off-season can’t get here soon enough for Lexi Thompson, except that she has two tournaments left, both at Tiburon Golf Club. Only one of them can salvage a lost year.
Korda effectively handed Thompson the tournament by making a mess on the 17th hole, capped off by missing a 2-foot putt and taking triple bogey. Thompson had a chance to extend the playoff with a birdie putt from 5 feet on the same line as the 4-foot par putt she missed in regulation. She missed again.At the end of 2017, Thompson was on the verge of winning the CME Group Tour Championship when she steadied herself over a 2-foot par putt on the final hole. A victory would make her the LPGA player of the year and send her to No. 1 in the world for the first time.
Judy Rankin, a Hall of Fame player and leading TV analyst in women’s golf, is bullish on Thompson’s outlook because of the progress she sees with the putter and the refinement in her swing. More that anything technical, Ranking sees effort and a willingness to put up with failure. That happens a lot in golf.
Thompson is 26 and seems much older, perhaps because she has been through so much for so long. She qualified for her first U.S. Women’s Open at age 12. She turned pro at 15 and won the first of her 11 LPGA Tour titles when she was 16.
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