HOUSTON – With the PGA Tour off this week, the spotlight is on women’s golf at the season’s final major championship, the U.S. Women’s Open. The increased attention is nothing new for 25-year-old Lexi Thompson, who has been in the glare of the media’s interest for more than half her life.
It was 13 years ago at the U.S. Women’s Open where Thompson first stepped onto the world stage. Thompson was just 12 years old when, at the time, she became the youngest to qualify for the Women's Open. That 2007 edition was staged at Pine Needles in North Carolina, and Lexi, who still went by Alexis then, brought her father, Scott, along as her caddie.