Alexis Thompson

• 2009 Junior PGA Championship
• 2009 South Atlantic Ladies Amateur
• 2008 U.S. Girls Junior Amateur Championship
• 2007 Junior PGA Championship

By 2009 - by age 14 - Thompson had already made it into three consecutive U.S. Women's Open, and had posted a Top 25 finish in another LPGA major.

Thompson was born in Florida into a family that loves golf. One older brother is a successful junior golfer. And another older brother - Nicholas, who is 12 years Alexis' senior - is a PGA Tour member who has won on the Nationwide Tour.

Thompson, tomboyish as a youngster and tall for her age, grew up in that competitive golf environment. And that competitiveness tranferred into competition and into full bloom in 2007. That year, Lexi survived a USGA qualifier to earn a spot in the field at the 2007 U.S. Women's Open. She was only 12 years, four months and one day old when she qualified, becoming the youngest-ever qualifier - beating a record previously held by Morgan Pressel.

Also in 2007, Thompson won the Aldila Junior Classic, an American Junior Golf Association tournament, becoming the second-youngest AJGA winner ever. And she won the Junior PGA Championship, becoming that event's youngest-ever winner.

In 2008, Thompson played in her second U.S. Women's Open (missing the cut, as she did in 2007), and won her first USGA championship, the U.S. Girls Junior Amateur. She is the second-youngest winner of that tournament, too (only Aree Song was younger).

In 2009, Thompson won the prestigious South Atlantic Ladies Amateur (a k a, the "Sally"). She finished 21st, tied for low amateur, at the LPGA major Kraft Nabisco Championship, after receiving a special invitation to play. And she made the cut for the first time at the U.S. Women's Open, finishing 34th.

In most ways, Alexis Thompson is just a typical teen, one whose hobbies include dancing, baking and crafts. In other ways, she's way ahead of her years - the biggest golf phenom since Michelle Wie's earliest days in the spotlight.