This week’s tournament marks the end of Swedish player Maria McBride’s full-time golf career, which McBride says has been a “really, really amazing experience.” Over the course of her career, McBride boasts 57 Career Top-10s, including 5 LPGA Tour victories, and career earnings over $6 million. McBride also competed in 5 Solheim Cups and served as Vice Captain for the European team in 2015.
Having started golf at age five and a 1998 rookie year, golf meant everything to McBride. “Golf is great in the way you travel around the world and you get to see places, and you get to go to places where you would probably never go otherwise. And just the experience of being out here and making a living, which is amazing that you can,” says McBride.
McBride doesn’t want to say she’s retiring and looks forward to playing on the Legends Tour in coming years. After this week, McBride will prepare for an upcoming mud run and plans to enjoy more time at home and with her daughter.
When asked how the LPGA Tour has changed during her career, McBride says the biggest thing is that everybody is younger now and “the competitive part has grown incredibly and the players are getting better, the scores are getting lower.”
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