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Wednesday 20 november 2019

In this Saturday, June 1, 2019
file photo, Lexi Thompson
misses a birdie on the eighth
green during the third round
of the U.S. Women’s Open golf
tournament in Charleston, S.C.
Associated Press
Lexi

Thompson

wants

golf, life

to be

positive

By DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — One
of the rookies on the LPGA
Tour next year was asked
which player she admired
when she started getting
serious about golf.
She mentioned Lexi
Thompson.
“It kind of makes me feel
old. I’m 24,” Thompson
said when told this, her
smile a mixture of disbelief
and pride. “For somebody
to say I was a role model, Bolts’ season on brink after more
that’s awesome.”
This wasn’t her best year close-game woes in Mexico
on the LPGA Tour, with only
one victory. That came
one week after Thompson Los Angeles Chargers running back Melvin Gordon, above,
began the final round of leaps over Kansas City Chiefs strong safety Tyrann Mathieu
the U.S. Women’s Open
one shot out of the lead, during the first half of an NFL football game Monday, Nov. 18,
started with three bogeys 2019, in Mexico City.
in four holes and never Associated Press
caught up.
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