Stacy Lewis gives birth to baby girl
Former University of Arkansas All-American golfer and LPGA Tour star Stacy Lewis gave birth to her first child, a baby girl, on Thursday.
Lewis, a 12-time winner on the LPGA Tour which includes two major championships, shared news of the arrival of Chesnee Lynn Chadwell on her Twitter account Sunday, with a photo of her daughter wrapped in a blanket and a bow-tied, baby head wrap. Lewis and her husband, Gerrod Chadwell, reside in Houston, where Chadwell is the women’s golf coach at the University of Houston.
Lewis, 33, has been on LPGA maternity leave since July 16, the day after finishing up the Marathon Classic, her last tour start of the year.
Lewis told GolfChannel.com late in the summer that she was planning to return to the LPGA for the 2019 season opener at the Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions on Jan. 17-20 at Lake Buena Vista, Fla. She’s hoping to make her return with her daughter accompanying her.
“Assuming everything goes OK, we will use that event as a test run, to kind of see how things go,” Lewis said in late August. “I would like to play, just to get that travel thing down, and get into a routine with the baby and then kind of figure out things as we go.
“I don’t know what to expect. I don’t know how it’s going to be. People have told me how it’s going to be, but, until you go through it, you don’t really know.”
Lewis, the former world No. 1 and two-time Rolex Player of the Year, left for maternity leave saying she was eager to win again as a mother.
“I just want to show people and kind of prove to myself that you can have a family, have a career, be successful out here, and you can travel, sometimes travel all over the world,” Lewis said.