Stacy Lewis was born on February 16, 1985, in Toledo, Ohio, and grew up in The Woodlands, Texas, a suburb north of Houston. At age 11 she was diagnosed with scoliosis, and while at The Woodlands High School she underwent spinal fusion surgery to correct her curved spine, a procedure that forced her to miss part of a junior golf season and left her wearing a back brace for much of her adolescence. She graduated from The Woodlands High School in 2003 and enrolled at the University of Arkansas, where she redshirted her freshman year in 2004 while recovering from the surgery.

Lewis’s college career at Arkansas turned into one of the most decorated in NCAA history. As a redshirt freshman in 2005 she won the SEC Tournament and was named SEC Freshman Golfer of the Year. In 2007 she captured the NCAA Division I Individual Championship and received the Golf Digest Amateur of the Year award, and as part of the 2008 U.S. Curtis Cup team she became the first player to go 5-0 in a single Curtis Cup. She closed out her senior season in 2008 by winning the SEC Tournament again and being named SEC Golfer of the Year, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting — a background that would later inform how she managed her own career earnings and endorsement deals.

Lewis turned professional in 2008 and earned her LPGA Tour card through Qualifying School, joining the tour full-time in 2009. Her breakthrough came in 2011, when she won the Kraft Nabisco Championship (now the Chevron Championship) for her first major title, defeating defending champion Yani Tseng by three strokes. She backed that up in 2013 by winning the Women’s British Open at St Andrews, finishing two strokes ahead of Na Yeon Choi and Hee Young Park. Those two major wins, paired with a string of top finishes and season-long consistency, established Lewis as one of the leading players in women’s golf heading into the middle of her career.

Lewis went on to win 13 times on the LPGA Tour, including her two majors, and reached World No. 1 for the first time on March 17, 2013, after winning the RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup. She held the top ranking for roughly 25 weeks across 2013 and 2014, briefly ceding it to Inbee Park before reclaiming it in 2014. She was named LPGA Player of the Year in both 2012 and 2014 — the first American to win the award twice since Beth Daniel in 1994 — and won the Vare Trophy for low scoring average in both of those seasons as well. She represented the United States at the 2016 Rio Olympics, finishing tied for fourth.

Lewis played on four U.S. Solheim Cup teams (2011, 2013, 2015, 2017), then moved into leadership roles: assistant captain in 2021, and captain of Team USA in both 2023 (a 14-14 tie that retained the cup for Europe) and 2024 (a 15.5-12.5 U.S. win). In 2025 the LPGA membership voted to give her the Founders Award, given annually to the player whose conduct best reflects the tour’s founding values. She announced her retirement in September 2025 at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship, then extended her farewell into the 2026 season, playing what was billed as her final competitive start at the Chevron Championship in her hometown of Houston in April 2026 — notably while pregnant with her second child, with husband Gerrod Chadwell caddying for her. By the time she stepped away, she ranked among the top 10 players on the LPGA’s all-time career money list, with total official earnings above $14.6 million.

Lewis’s biggest individual seasons on the course came during her early-career peak. She led the LPGA money list in 2012 with earnings of roughly $1.8 million, and topped it again in 2014 with just under $2.5 million, the two seasons in which she also won LPGA Player of the Year. Her income leveled off in the years that followed as she balanced competing with starting a family and, later, with Solheim Cup captaincy duties, but she remained a regular top-50 money list finisher for most of the following decade. Prize money is only part of the picture: annual income from her equipment, apparel, and corporate sponsorship deals ran alongside her competitive earnings for most of her career, though those figures are not publicly broken out by year.

As an individual athlete rather than a team-sport player, Lewis’s “contracts” are best represented by tournament purses and multi-year sponsorship agreements rather than a single playing contract. Her LPGA Tour prize money is a matter of public record: she finished her career with more than $14.6 million in official earnings, ranking her among the top American money winners in LPGA history. Individual payday highlights include her 2011 and 2013 major championship purses and her 2017 win at the Cambia Portland Classic, when she donated her $150,000 winner’s check to relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Harvey flooding in her home city of Houston. On the sponsorship side, her longest-running equipment relationship has been with Mizuno, which signed her to an initial multi-year club contract early in her career and re-signed her to further multi-year deals in 2015 and again later in the 2010s after a brief period playing other equipment.

Lewis built one of the more durable endorsement portfolios in women’s golf. KPMG signed her to a global sponsorship agreement in 2012, making her the face of the firm’s golf-related marketing and putting its logo on her bag and apparel for tournament appearances — a partnership that has continued in various forms alongside KPMG’s broader sponsorship of the LPGA and the Women’s PGA Championship. Mizuno has supplied her clubs for most of her professional career, including a multi-year deal announced when she rejoined the brand. Apparel and equipment partners have also included Fila Golf earlier in her career, and more recently Antigua Apparel, with FootJoy for footwear and Titleist for golf balls. Additional partnerships over the years included Tyson Foods and Stephens Inc., the Arkansas-based investment firm, reflecting her continued ties to the state where she went to college. None of her sponsors have disclosed the dollar value of these agreements, and, consistent with most individual-sport endorsement deals, exact annual figures are not publicly available.

Unlike some retired athletes, Lewis has not publicly disclosed any outside business ventures, startup investments, or ownership stakes. Her finance and accounting degree from Arkansas has been noted by golf media as informing how she approached contract negotiations and career planning, but there is no public record of her running or co-founding a company. Since retiring from full-time competition, her public-facing activities have centered on her long-standing sponsor relationships (KPMG in particular has featured her in leadership and mentorship-oriented programming), her family life alongside husband Gerrod Chadwell’s college coaching career, and occasional appearances tied to LPGA institutional events. Any expansion into broadcasting, coaching, or other business roles following her 2026 retirement had not been formally announced as of this writing.

Lewis has not publicly disclosed details of any real estate holdings, and no property records for a residence owned by her are verifiable from public reporting. She grew up in The Woodlands, Texas, and has described Houston as her hometown throughout her farewell tour in 2025 and 2026. Her husband, Gerrod Chadwell, has coached college golf in Texas for most of their marriage — at the University of Houston through 2021 and at Texas A&M in College Station since — and various profiles have placed the family in the Houston-to-College Station corridor, though no specific address or property has been confirmed. In the absence of verified records, this profile does not speculate on the value or nature of any specific property she may own.