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Thompson shatters age record with historic win
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September 20, 2011, Tuesday
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AT 16, Lexi Thompson has become the youngest player to win an LPGA Tour event.
The Floridian closed with a 2-under 70 on Sunday to win the Navistar LPGA Classic in Alabama, beating Tiffany Joh by five strokes to finish at 17-under 271.
Thompson shattered the age record for winning a multiple-round tournament held by Paula Creamer, who won in 2005 at 18. Marlene Hagge was 18 years and 14 days old when she won the single-round Sarasota Open in 1952.
The victory brought a piece of history and US$195,000.
"This has been my dream like my whole life," Thompson said. "It's the best feeling ever."
Thompson, who turned 16 in February, led by five strokes entering the final round and built that to seven through 10 holes at the Robert Trent Jones Trail's Capitol Hill complex. Then came the teen's only big lapse on the pressure-packed day, bogeys on the next two holes that allowed Joh to surge within three strokes.
Thompson erased any concerns of a collapse with birdies on Nos. 16 and 17, and then the celebration and the kind words began.
"Paula Creamer came up to me and said, 'If anybody was going to change the record, it should have been you,'" Thompson said. "That meant a lot."
Thompson and her father, also her caddie, couldn't contain broad smiles as they approached the 18th green with the win, and a spot in LPGA history, in hand. "It's just awesome watching your kid do something like this, but it is very nerve-racking, though," Scott Thompson said. "This is a very special day."
The Floridian closed with a 2-under 70 on Sunday to win the Navistar LPGA Classic in Alabama, beating Tiffany Joh by five strokes to finish at 17-under 271.
Thompson shattered the age record for winning a multiple-round tournament held by Paula Creamer, who won in 2005 at 18. Marlene Hagge was 18 years and 14 days old when she won the single-round Sarasota Open in 1952.
The victory brought a piece of history and US$195,000.
"This has been my dream like my whole life," Thompson said. "It's the best feeling ever."
Thompson, who turned 16 in February, led by five strokes entering the final round and built that to seven through 10 holes at the Robert Trent Jones Trail's Capitol Hill complex. Then came the teen's only big lapse on the pressure-packed day, bogeys on the next two holes that allowed Joh to surge within three strokes.
Thompson erased any concerns of a collapse with birdies on Nos. 16 and 17, and then the celebration and the kind words began.
"Paula Creamer came up to me and said, 'If anybody was going to change the record, it should have been you,'" Thompson said. "That meant a lot."
Thompson and her father, also her caddie, couldn't contain broad smiles as they approached the 18th green with the win, and a spot in LPGA history, in hand. "It's just awesome watching your kid do something like this, but it is very nerve-racking, though," Scott Thompson said. "This is a very special day."
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