Former world No. 1 Stacy Lewis announced Wednesday that she will retire from the LPGA at the end of the season.

Lewis, now 40, said in a statement on social media, ahead of this week’s Walmart NW Arkansas Championship, that her body “has told me it’s time.”

“Never in a million years would I have thought this journey playing golf would still be going in 2025,” she wrote, “but the time has come to put the clubs away.”

Lewis underwent surgery the summer before her freshman season at Arkansas in 2003 to address childhood scoliosis. She had been diagnosed at the age of 11 and wore a plastic back brace 18 hours a day until she graduated from high school.

Lewis still blossomed into one of the best players of her generation, coming of age at a time when the LPGA needed new stars following the

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