Alexis Thompson (15) to turn pro

days after Curtis Cup match

Fifteen-year-old rising American star Alexis Thompson is to turn professional and play in an LPGA tournament only days after the end of the 2010 Curtis Cup match, at Essex County Club, Massachusetts.
Alexis will make her professional debut at the ShopRite LPGA Classic at the Bay Course at Seaview in southern New Jersey.
In 2007 as a 12-year-old, she became the youngest player to qualify to play in the U.S. Women’s Open. She qualified again in 2008 and 2009.
Thompson was recently named Golfweek’s 2009 Women’s Amateur Player of the Year and the 2009 Junior Girls Player of the year.
Editor's comment: Don't they have a minimum age for playing as a professional on the LPGA Tour? And what a pity Jodi Ewart, Yorkshire-born student at the University of New Mexico, couldn't have done the same as Alexis, i.e. play in the Curtis Cup and then turn pro immediately afterwards.
Jodi, No 7 in the US women's college golf circuit rankings, informed the Ladies Golf Union some time ago that she should not be considered for selection for the GB&I team as she was turning professional to compete on the US Futures Tour as soon as she had completed her four years at UNM, which will be BEFORE the Curtis Cup match.

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