After Teeing Up with a 7MO Pregnant Belly, Lindsey Weaver-Wright Opens About Her Future as a Tour Pro Mama

The life of a traveling LPGA Pro is not easy. A busy on-the-course schedule gives way to an equally busy off-the-course routine. You’ve to relax your body, and if you have an early tee-off time the next day, set the alarm for early morning. Now, imagine doing all that while being pregnant or being a mother of a newborn. The alarm surely sets off a lot early.

Despite that, many LPGA Tour players have appeared on greens while carrying a child. Now, speaking to media, during the Ascendant LPGA Tournament, Lindsey Weaver-Wright shares what it’s like to be a pregnant golfer on the course. She admits that it’s “tough” but she feels she is lucky to be playing this far into the pregnancy.

Lindsey Weaver-Wright shares her experience as a would-be mother

American golfer Lindsey Weaver-Wright sensed it in early June. Confirming to Instagram after Meijer LPGA Classic, the 30-year-old golfer announced, that she and her husband, Zach Wright, are expecting their first born. Although, she is expected to deliver in December 2023; she has not stopped playing.

In these crucial times, she has found support from her husband. “He was out here for my front nine.” said Weaver-Wright during a press conference. Zach Wright, is also a professional golfer, who has teed off at the Korn Ferry Tour. Being a professional golfer himself, he understands the importance of golf in his wife’s life.

With her pregnancy also came the question of what happens after the baby is born. Will she be able to play as a golfer while caring for her baby? Weaver-Wright reveals she has taken advice from her colleagues. “Overall everyone has had a pretty positive experience in being out here with daycare and all the resources we have now.”

LPGA has brought in a new maternity policy in 2019 that allows tour players to decide when they want to take a break to care for their baby. Moreover, the new policy also gives liberty to the players to freeze their playing status for two years. LPGA has also taken care of the golfer mothers by providing free daycare facilities — The LPGA Child Development Center.

However, the maternity leave is unpaid. So, many players keep playing as long as they can. Lindsey Weaver-Wright has learnt from other golfers who have played while being expectant.

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Golfers who marched forward while carrying a child

Weaver-Wright is not the only would-be mom to tee off this year, either. In June, when she announced her pregnancy, Amy Olson turned up at the US Open 30 weeks pregnant. Before that, in 2019, the eight-time LPGA Tour winner, Brittany Lincicome and Australian golfer Sarah Jane Smith have also played while being pregnant.

Laura Diaz, Karen Stupples, and Juli Inkster have also played while expecting during various points of their career. Diaz was six months pregnant, when she teed off Crooked Stick Golf Club, representing the United States in the 2005 Solheim Cup. Iben Timing, too, played in the same tournament while being sixteen weeks pregnant, albeit on the rival team.

If Lindsey Weaver-Wright can win this tournament, she’ll be the first woman to do this since Nancy Lopez won the Sara Lee Classic, in 1991.

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