Lincicome ends 20-year LPGA career at local event

Two-time major winner Brittany Lincicome announced this week's LPGA Annika tournament will be her final event of the full season, ending a 20-year career in her hometown (Matt SULLIVAN)

Two-time major winner Brittany Lincicome announced this week’s LPGA Annika tournament will be her final event of the full season, ending a 20-year career in her hometown (Matt SULLIVAN)

Brittany Lincicome, a two-time major winner in her 20th LPGA campaign, announced Tuesday that she will retire after this week’s Annika tournament near her hometown of St. Petersburg, Florida.

The 39-year-old won the 2009 Kraft Nabisco and the same title in 2015 when it was called the ANA Inspiration, but she has not won an LPGA event since winning her eighth title at the Bahamas Classic 2018.

“It just means the world to be able to finish it in my hometown,” she said Tuesday. “It’s like my whole world is falling into place and falling into place. It’s just an honor to be here and make this my last event of the full season.”

In 2018, Lincicome competed in the Barbasol PGA Championship, becoming only the fifth woman to compete in a PGA men’s event, and her score of one-under-par 71 in the second round was only the second time a woman had beaten par in a PGA tournament.

Lincicome, whose husband will serve as her caddy at her farewell event, said her decision to retire was driven by a desire to spend more time with her daughter.

“Our daughter started kindergarten in August and I went there to volunteer for the first two weeks,” she said. “I was a helicopter mom who walked my kid to school every day, just volunteering. I loved that more than the idea of ​​hitting golf balls.

“It was my moment. It’s time. I need to be there.”

Winning her first LPGA title at the 2006 Women’s World Match Play with her father as her caddy was among her fondest memories, as were her major crowns and four Solheim Cup triumphs.

“They’re all different awesome moments,” Lincicome said. “I just want to be able to say that I made my mark and made the game better. I think we accomplished that.”

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