Ochoa: It Was The Right Time...

Lorena Ochoa is going to play one more tournament before she retires.

The 28-year-old said Friday in Mexico City she will compete in the Tres Marias Championships next week in her home country town of Morelia. She also said she plans to play in the LPGA's Lorena Ochoa Invitational each November in Guadalajara.

Remember, she confirmed on her website Tuesday she is leaving the game. She got married in December and has talked about wanting to start a family. She said while retirement was a difficult decision, she was "full of happiness."

Ochoa's announcement comes three years to the day she achieved the Number 1 ranking in the world, replacing Annika Sorenstam. She currently has 27 tour victories, two of them major titles ((a Dinah Shore and a British)), and nearly $15 million in earnings.

LPGA Commissioner Mike Whan talks about what the tour will be missing as Ochoa retires, thanks to the LPGA their own selves...

Lorena Ochoa Retires

Lorena Ochoa announced today on her website that she's retiring at the age of 28 but did not give any reason for the sudden decision- sudden, at least in our eyes, anyway...

She says she'll announce why at a news conference on Friday. Ochoa has spent the last three of her six years on the LPGA Tour at No. 1 in the world rankings.

"Personally, it's more important the things that I do outside the golf course," Ochoa said last year before a tournament she hosts in her hometown of Guadalajara. "And that's been my main focus right now."

The Mexican newspaper Reforma first reported Ochoa's retirement and said she wanted to concentrate on her family and charities. She was married in December to Andres Conesa, the chief executive of Aeromexico airline.

She currently has 27 LPGA wins- 2 of them majors... one below...

Here's the dive that always accompanies the win at the Dinah Shore...
((HT: LPGA/CBS))