Wie West To End Retirement To Play At Us Open

Former US Open champion Michelle Wie West says she is coming retired of status to play astatine nan awesome later this year.

West is simply a five-time victor connected nan LGPA Tour pinch her sole awesome triumph coming astatine Pinehurst successful 2014.

The 36-year-old past competed connected nan Tour astatine nan US Open 3 years ago, but intends to play again astatine nan major, which originates connected 4 June successful Pacific Palisades, California, to make usage of her last twelvemonth of eligibility.

Players who triumph nan US Open are invited backmost to compete for nan pursuing 10 years, but Wie West's stint was extended by 2 years to 2026 owed to maternity leave.

"With 1 last twelvemonth of eligibility from my triumph successful 2014 and nan title headed to an iconic venue that intends truthful overmuch to me, I americium excited to denote that I'll beryllium teeing it up astatine nan US.Women's Open astatine Riviera successful June," she wrote connected X.

Wie West roseate to prominence astatine an early property and was erstwhile tipped to emulate men's 15-time major-winner Tiger Woods' sporting success.

She was nan youngest to triumph an big USGA title astatine 13, and nan youngest to make nan trim astatine an LPGA awesome successful nan 2003 Kraft Nabisco, aged 14.

After much than 20 years successful nan spotlight, Wie West, who has 2 children, near nan athletics adding that her assemblage was struggling to header pinch nan rigours of master golf.

Wie West's return to nan Tour follows her announcement successful February that she will beryllium competing successful nan women's type of nan TGL astatine nan extremity of nan year.