Lorena Ochoa, 28, announced Tuesday that she was stepping away from competitive golf, ending her reign as the LPGA's top player and, arguably, the most dominant female athlete on the planet.
Ochoa's list of accomplishments includes 27 career victories, two major championship triumphs and the last four LPGA player of the year awards.For all of Ochoa's lofty accomplishments, she became a cross-cultural icon because of her humanitarian works and because all of her success never changed her shy, sweet nature. Ochoa's spectacular talent and starpower will be sorely missed by the LPGA, but her retirement will not end her public life. She means too much to too many.
"I love golf, I love competing, I love winning," Ochoa told me in 2008. "I have worked very hard to get to this point and I am definitely enjoying it. But there will be a time to stop, to concentrate on other things that matter. I look forward to that. I look forward to a life that is a little more simple. I like that word. Yes, simple. That is what I look forward to."
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