Lexi Thompson reflects on 'emotional week' playing for USA for likely last time at Solheim Cup

The 2024 LPGA Tour play is drafting person to an extremity with each period and each tourney gone by, and that means women's play fable Lexi Thompson's full-time enactment connected circuit is besides coming to an end. 

Thompson announced astatine the U.S. Women's Open that she would beryllium stepping backmost from full-time play connected the LPGA Tour, and though she didn't usage the connection retirement, she decidedly won't beryllium connected the circuit similar she has since she turned nonrecreational successful 2010 astatine the property of 15.

Since then, play fans person shown their emotion and respect to Thompson, particularly this period erstwhile she was representing the United States for apt the last clip of her vocation astatine the Solheim Cup. 

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Lexi Thompson of Team USA lines up a putt connected the 12th greenish against Team Europe during the Solheim Cup 2024 astatine the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club. (Aaron Doster-Imagn Images)

As idiosyncratic who has had the grant of wearing the Stars and Stripes since 2008 arsenic a Junior Ryder Cup member, with 2 Olympic Games successful 2016 and 2020 on the mode arsenic well, Thompson discussed the "emotional week" successful Gainesville, Virginia.

"That week successful wide is my favourite tourney retired of my full career," Thompson told Fox News Digital portion besides discussing her concern with Maxfli heading into this 2024 season. "I ever say, immoderate clip I tin correspond my country, I privation to beryllium connected that team. 

"The Solheim Cup has made truthful galore memories that I've cherished on my vocation and truthful galore friendships that I'm truthful grateful for. There's conscionable thing similar it, being capable to beryllium a portion of a squad representing your country."

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Thompson received a raucous ovation erstwhile she was introduced connected the archetypal tee of her archetypal match, and aft coagulated play by Team USA, they came distant with the 15.5-12.5 triumph to triumph the Cup for the archetypal clip since 2017. 

"To get the triumph connected U.S. soil, nary words tin picture that feeling," Thompson said. "And to beryllium alongside my teammates and play nether Stacy Lewis, the adjunct captains, they're each women I've looked up to. It's specified a immense grant and the fans were conscionable incredible. There's thing similar the fans there."

Lexi Thompson of Team USA poses for a photograph with the trophy aft defeating Team Europe astatine the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club. (Aaron Doster-Imagn Images)

Thompson further explained her emotion for representing the United States passim her career. 

"It's meant everything to me," she said. "Week successful and week out, I ever consciousness similar I'm representing my state conscionable being an American. But it's conscionable antithetic erstwhile you measurement ft retired there, aftermath up, enactment your state colors on, measurement connected that archetypal tee and hear, ‘Representing the USA’ and past your name.

"Hearing the cheers and chants – arsenic an jock you ever imagination of those moments and however each your hard enactment puts you into that moment. All the unit and each those expectations, that's what you unrecorded for. To propulsion disconnected each those shots nether that benignant of pressure, there's thing similar it. Those moments are what I've lived for."

Again, Thompson did not usage the connection retirement, truthful the 29-year-old inactive has the anticipation to correspond her state down the roadworthy if the accidental arises.

Lexi Thompson (Aaron Doster-Imagn Images)

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But if the Solheim Cup was the last one, she went retired with fans screaming her sanction and wearing an American emblem connected her shoulders portion holding up the trophy.

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