Column: Lexi Thompson misses out on year of LPGA dominance

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Lexi Thompson doesn't have two long months to ponder how her season ended.

She gets two weeks.

Thompson will be the lone woman among the 12 two-player teams for the QBE Shootout. It will be played Dec. 8-10 at Tiburon Golf Club, where she went 34 consecutive holes last weekend without a mistake until missing a 2-foot par putt on the last hole that cost her a shot at being LPGA player of the year and No. 1 in the world.

It's bad enough that her next tournament is at Tiburon. The QBE Shootout host is none other than Greg Norman.

Is there another player who can appreciate what might have been?

Norman will never get as much credit for all he did right because of powerful memories from the ones that got away.