Add Marina Alex to the record of gamers who’ve retired from the LPGA Tour this 12 months, with the two-time match winner calling it a profession after she completed tied for twelfth on this previous weekend’s CME Group Tour Championship at Naples, Florida.
The New Jersey native and Vanderbilt alum, who first performed on the LPGA Tour in 2013, received the Portland Traditional in 2018 and the Palos Verdes Championship in 2022.
Alex, 34, amassed $5.0 million in profession earnings, in accordance with the LPGA, together with $720,000 this season, when she had 10 top-25 finishes and 5 high 10s. She had 83 top-25 finishes in her profession and 35 within the high 10.
Alex’s last aggressive spherical was a 6-under-par 66 Sunday that left her in a tie with Jennifer Kupcho, France’s Celine Boutier and South Korea’s Jin Younger Ko. They have been 10 pictures behind winner Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand.
“It is at all times arduous to say goodbye,” Alex stated. “I do know that is what I need, and it is the precise determination for me proper now. That does not change the truth that this can be a life that I constructed for the final 11 years out right here, and golf has been my life since I have been a child. We’re about to enter a brand new world of a brand new id. It is nice, however change is rarely simple.”
Additionally taking part in of their last LPGA Tour aggressive rounds Sunday have been Lexi Thompson and Ally Ewing, who already had introduced they have been calling it a profession. Thompson completed in a tie for forty ninth place at 2 beneath, whereas Ewing completed simply behind Alex in a tie for sixteenth at 11 beneath.
Different gamers to say farewell from aggressive golf this calendar 12 months have been Scotland’s Catriona Matthew, South Korea’s So Yeon Ryu, Angela Stanford, Colombia’s Mariajo Uribe, England’s Laura Davies, South Korea’s I.Ok. Kim, Amy Olson, Gerina Piller and Brittany Lincicome.
