2017 was not an easy year for Lexi Thompson. She lost a chance to win her second major title at the ANA Inspiration (the Chevron Championship) in April after being assessed a four-shot penalty mid-round for an infringement she had committed a day before. And a couple of months later, her mother, Judy Thompson, was diagnosed with uterine cancer. 

It was more than tough for a 22-year-old to watch her mother go through such pain. However, the determination of Judy Thompson to not let her children give up their career path due to her illness helped the golfer to play again. 

“I want all my children to continue with what their dreams are,” the LPGA player’s mother said while attending her daughter’s event at the US Women’s Open in July, a month after her operation. “Life can’t stop,” she added. 

When another LPGA Tour became the guardian angel of the mother of Lexi Thompson

It was not the first time Judy Thompson was diagnosed with cancer. She had breast cancer 11 years before she got uterine cancer. The medical process would have made 1-time major champion’s mother wait another couple months after the diagnosis before getting treatment. 

However, with the help of another LPGA player, Morgan Pressel, she got the treatment and could remove the cancer in only a week. Notably, Pressel lost her mother to breast cancer when she was only 15 and had started a foundation to raise awareness and money to fight it. 

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Although she was battling a chronic disease, Judy Thomspon didn’t want Thompson and her siblings to not focus on their careers. 

How many siblings does the LPGA player have? 

Lexi Thompson, the 11-time LPGA Tour champion, is the youngest among the three children of Judy and Scott Thompson. She has two brothers, Nicholas and Curtis Thompson, all of them professional golfers. 

Nicholas Thompson, being the eldest, turned professional first, in 2005, among the siblings. He joined the PGA Tour in 2006 and subsequently joined the Korn Ferry Tour a year after. Moreover, he won once on the Korn Ferry Tour at the 2007 HSBC New Zealand PGA Championship. 

Meanwhile, Curtis Thompson turned professional in 2014 and has been playing on the Korn Ferry Tour since 2015. After finishing the 2020-2021 combined season no. 23 on the Tour’s Points List, he earned a ticket to play on the PGA Tour in 2022. 

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Battling cancer and caring about her children… Only a mother can do both things successfully. Now it is clear from where Lexi Thompson got her determination to stay focused in difficult times.