Lexi Thompson shot a bogey-free 66 on April 25, 2026, and moved to 6 under par and inside the top ten after the third round of the Chevron Championship at Memorial Park Golf Course in Houston. She has one round left at the only major she has ever won.
The round was Thompson’s first flawless major scorecard since the final round of the same tournament in 2022, and it came in just her second LPGA start of 2026. Her husband, Max Provost, watched from the gallery with Leo, the dog Thompson brought along, along with her parents and family friends. After years in which her major results often seemed to turn on one bad stretch, this was the kind of clean Saturday she has not had often enough.
Thompson won the Dinah Shore Trophy in 2014 at age 19, and that remains her only major title. Since then, her record has been marked by sharp swings: the 2017 ANA Inspiration, where she had led by three shots before being hit with a four-stroke penalty after a TV viewer emailed the LPGA about a ball-placement mistake from her third round, and the 2021 U.S. Women’s Open, where she led by five shots after 54 holes before shooting 41 on the back nine in the final round. The clean card in Houston briefly put all of that into the background.
Thompson has been competing on a selective schedule after leaving the full-time LPGA schedule after 2024, and she missed the cut in her 2026 season opener at the Ford Championship. At her retirement press conference at the 2024 U.S. Women’s Open, she said being out there “can be a lot,” that “it can be lonely,” and that she had struggled with it. She added that she did not think there was somebody out there who had not, and that the real issue was how well players hide it.
For Thompson, the significance of the day was not just the number on the card. It was the return of a major round that looked simple from the outside, and it came at the course where she has already completed the biggest win of her career. Angela Stanford has said Thompson’s record of seven Solheim Cup appearances justifies continued consideration for the team, but in Houston the immediate question is narrower: whether this round can carry her through one more day at the championship that has defined both her best and most difficult Sundays.
