Lexi Thompson will be a part of Brittany Lincicome, Michelle Wie West, Suzy Whaley, Annika Sorenstam, Shirley Spork and Babe Didrikson Zaharias to compete on the PGA
Tour after accepting a sponsor’s exemption to play on the Shriners Youngsters’s Open
Final Up to date: 04/10/23 6:15pm
Lexi Thompson is about to change into simply the seventh feminine to compete on the PGA Tour
Lexi Thompson is about to change into simply the seventh feminine to compete on the PGA
Tour after accepting a sponsor’s exemption to play in subsequent week’s Shriners
Youngsters’s Open.
Brittany Lincicome, Michelle Wie West, Suzy Whaley, Annika Sorenstam, Shirley Spork and Babe Didrikson Zaharias are the earlier ladies to have participated in an occasion on the flagship males’s tour.
Thompson, 28, who has gained 11 occasions on the ladies’s equal tour and is amongst its longest hitters as she averages 270 yards off the tee this season, will be a part of the membership when she tees off on the occasion in Las Vegas from October 12-15.
I’m hopeful that my skill to play with the lads subsequent week on the Shriners Youngsters’s Open sends an important message to the younger ladies you could chase your dream no matter how exhausting it’s.
Lexi Thompson
“Shriners Youngsters’s help of kids with specialty paediatric medical challenges for over 100 years is inspiring, and as everyone knows, these situations don’t discriminate,” stated Thompson.
“I am hopeful that my skill to play with the lads subsequent week on the Shriners Youngsters’s Open sends an important message to the younger ladies you could chase your dream no matter how exhausting it’s.
“I can’t wait to come back to town of Las Vegas and I am grateful to Shriners Youngsters’s for this chance to spend the week alongside these inspirational children.”
Thompson has type for being a trailblazer because the youngest girl to qualify for the US Ladies’s Open in 2007, aged simply 12.
She additionally holds the document for being the youngest LPGA champion, aged 16 years, seven months and eight days, after prevailing on the 2011 Navistar LPGA Traditional.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Lexi to the 2023 match,” Shriners Youngsters’s Open government director Patrick Lindsey stated.
“We’re desirous to have Lexi on the course and proceed to interrupt by means of obstacles.”
Watch the Shriners Youngsters’s Open dwell on Sky from Thursday October 12.
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