Real Reason Behind Lexi Thompson's Retirement 

She was leading a tournament in the final round with in the last month. I don't know what happened. The LPGA tour is littered with great golfers retiring very young. Loraine Ochoua for one she wanted a family

Such a mental game

Maybe we need a new rule that allows local rules officials to decide if an infraction was a benefit to the player's round or just a mistake that didn't help the player.

I'm a lifelong Golf Pro. Lexi has been a fantastic Professional. Her intensity and competitive fire are admirable at minimum. That deal with marking the golf ball, that was BS. It is impossible to return the ball to the precise correct location. We all just do our best to be close and honor "the spirit of the rule". Frankly it's my opinion that the lack of respect for the value of the spirit of honorable competition has done irreparable harm to our society. An athlete needs to feel an obligation to place the spirit of fair competition above all else and consider it an honor to declare an appropriate penalty on oneself. Basketball Players FLOP. Football players sincerely attempt to hurt one another. Baseball players involve themselves in outrageous screaming matches with umpires. In Golf we declare an error when it is observed whether it be on ourselves or our opponent. We use phrases like "The rules of Golf were not intended to harm or attack the player." "It's better to be good to play with than to play good." "The rules of Golf have a foundation of intent". We don't only have rules in golf, we have etiquette.

Lexi has every right to her decision to retire. Hope she enjoys all her days, now she can relax and go about her life, not being under any pressure. She has earned that much. Good luck Lexi!

She will be back

And the media >s just as responsible. ..

What other sport officials allow a call-in tv viewers comment effect penalty strokes being added? Total BS by the LPGA and the PGA!!!

A Young woman's first concern is elsewhere than golf.She surely has other big plans.

This must be an AI voice. Put ting instead of putting

You don't know the reason

Never liked her, questionable on the rules and always the victim.

She has not won since 2019, and well her short game is bad and she cant hit a fairway no more....

Simple, Lexi wasn't mentally strong enough to deal with the adversity. The truth is the differential between good and great athletes isn't skill, but mental strength. Since she retired early that is the only assumption I can make