Three-time main champion Anna Nordqvist will retire from skilled golf after this week’s FM Championship close to Boston.
Nordqvist, 39, will captain Europe at Bernardus Golf in Netherlands, once they tackle america on 11-13 September within the Solheim Cup.
The Swede has featured in every of the earlier 9 editions of the biennial contest, serving to Europe elevate the trophy on 5 events since making her debut in 2009.
That was the identical 12 months Nordqvist loved her first main success on the LPGA Championship and he or she additionally triumphed on the Evian Championship in 2017 and the Ladies’s Open in 2021.
In a submit on social media, Nordqvist stated: “Pricey golf, 20 years in the past, I got here to the US with two suitcases, a golf bag and a dream of sooner or later competing with the most effective golfers on this planet.
“Whereas my goals by no means fairly took me this far, I’m very pleased with myself for the way far I’ve come and grateful for the dream I have been in a position to dwell ever since.
“I am unable to say it has at all times been straightforward, particularly being so distant from my household, however they’ve supported me each step of the best way. I’ve fallen so many occasions, however I by no means gave up, and I stood up each time I fell.
“I’m ceaselessly grateful for all the things this recreation has given me, and the folks I’ve met alongside the best way.
“I do not know how one can say goodbye to one thing meaning a lot to me, however that is going to be the final week strolling contained in the ropes, competing on tour.”
Nordqvist has earned $14.1m (£10.36m) throughout her 18-year skilled profession, that has included 9 victories on the LPGA Tour and 5 on the Women European Tour.
Whereas she is at the moment ranked 118th on this planet, she completed in a tie for seventh in July’s Evian Championship and was tied for twenty ninth in the newest Ladies’s Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes.
Nordqvist had a benign cyst faraway from her abdomen through the summer time of 2024, a 12 months after her husband, Kevin McAlpine, died instantly aged 39, whereas the couple have been going via a divorce.
She added: “I am undecided what the longer term has in retailer for me, nevertheless it’s with a grateful coronary heart I’ve determined to retire from taking part in skilled golf to concentrate on my well being and my household.”
