Lexi Thompson

After three professional events, her earnings were $314,842, which would have ranked 18th on the official LPGA money list if she had been a member of the LPGA Tour.

Her result from the Evian Masters caused her to rise 75 places to number 74 in the Women's World Golf Rankings.

Later that year she Monday-qualified for the Navistar LPGA Classic, where she shot 65 in the first round and finished tied for 27th, 12 strokes behind winner, Lorena Ochoa.

Alexis Noel Thompson (born February 10, 1995) is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour.

At age 12, she was the youngest golfer ever to qualify to play in the U.S. Women's Open.

As a 12-year-old in 2007, she became the youngest player to qualify for the U.S. Women's Open.

At the tournament, she shot 86-82 and failed to make the cut.

Also in 2007, she won the Aldila Junior Classic to become the second-youngest winner in American Junior Golf Association (AJGA).

She also won the Westfield Junior PGA Championship to become the youngest winner in Junior PGA Championship history.

In 2008, she won the U.S. Girls' Junior.

She qualified again in 2008 for U.S. Women's Open where she shot 75-77 and she again failed to make the cut, this time by two strokes.

As a 14-year-old in 2009, she qualified for a third time for the U.S. Women's Open and made the cut for the first time, finishing tied for 34th, +11 (71-73-78-73=295).

She also won the 2009 Verizon Junior Heritage after a sudden-death playoff with Laetitia Beck.

She represented the winning United States team in the Curtis Cup competition and went undefeated, winning four matches and tying in a fifth.

She turned pro the next week, stating she believed her game was ready to make the jump to the LPGA Tour.

She turned professional in June 2010 at age 15.

In 2010, Thompson kept her amateur status for the first half of the year.

As an amateur, she played in the Women's Australian Open, where she finished T16 (+3), 12 strokes behind the winner, Yani Tseng.

She made the cut at the 2010 Kraft Nabisco Championship, finishing T24, +2 (74-72-73-71=290), 15 shots behind winner, Yani Tseng.

Thompson announced that she had turned professional on June 16, 2010.

She signed sponsorship deals with Cobra-PUMA Golf and with Red Bull.

Lacking official status as an LPGA Tour member, Thompson largely had to rely on sponsors' exemptions to gain entry into tournaments.

Her first sponsor's exemption was entry into the ShopRite LPGA Classic where she missed the cut by four strokes.

She played qualifiers held in Florida in May to gain entry to the U.S. Women's Open played July 8–11.

She finished T10 at the tournament, +6 (73-74-70-73=290), nine shots behind winner Paula Creamer, and collected her first professional check for $72,131.

Two weeks later at the Evian Masters, Thompson finished T2, −13 (69-72-67-67=275), one shot behind the winner, and made $242,711.

She played three more events on the LPGA Tour in 2010, missing the cut at the CN Canadian Women's Open, and finishing T16 and T57 in two additional events.

In December 2010, Thompson petitioned the LPGA to allow her to play in up to 12 LPGA tournaments in 2011 using sponsor exemptions instead of the six allowed to non-members by LPGA rules.

Thompson began playing in one-day tournaments in October 2010 on the Fuzion Minor League Golf Tour, a developmental tour aimed at men trying to move up to the next level of professional golf.

On the Fuzion Tour, women play with tees moved up so that they play 94% of the distance that the men play.

On September 18, 2011, Thompson set a then new record as the youngest-ever winner of an LPGA tournament, at age 16 years, seven months, and eight days, when she won the Navistar LPGA Classic.

Three months later she became the second-youngest winner of a Ladies European Tour event, capturing the Dubai Ladies Masters by four strokes on December 17, 2011.

In January 2011, Commissioner Mike Whan denied Thompson's petition, but announced that the LPGA rules would be changed to allow non-members to participate in Monday qualifying.

In effect this gave Thompson the opportunity to play in more than 12 tournaments in 2011.

She returned to play against women in February 2011 at the Women's Australian Open and the ANZ Ladies Masters, where she missed the cut and finished T42 respectively.

Returning to the United States, she won a one-round Fuzion Tour event, on February 21, at her home course in Coral Springs, Florida.

She was home-schooled and told an interviewer in September 2012 that she had "graduated a few months ago".

She won her first major championship at the 2014 Kraft Nabisco Championship at the age of 19 years, 2 months, making her the second youngest LPGA golfer to win a major (she still ranks in the top-5 youngest LPGA major winners).

Thompson's two brothers are also professional golfers: Nicholas and Curtis have both played on the Korn Ferry Tour and the PGA Tour.

The record was surpassed in 2014 by Lucy Li.