As Stacy Lewis bids farewell at home in Texas, her life becomes a whole new ball game

HOUSTON — Stacy Lewis is coming out of retirement for one last glorious start at the Chevron Championship in her home state of Texas. Whether or not she makes the cut in the LPGA Tour’s first major of the season, she’s got another sporting milestone lined up on Saturday. MORE: 15 players to watch in the Chevron Championship Lewis and 11-time baseball all-star Roger Clemens were in Houston for a recent golf media day, and the Astros Foundation learned she’d never thrown out the first pitch before one of their games.

“We were throwing golf balls, and he was giving me tips on that,” Lewis. Golf balls are certainly different from baseballs, but it was all fun. MORE: A past champion's outlook changed his view of Poppie's Pond tradition Lewis will be center stage on the mound at Daikin Park to throw out the ceremonial first pitch as the Astros take on the New York Yankees this weekend.

She once threw out the first pitch at a Chicago White Sox game and it impressed her husband, Texas A&M's women's head golf coach Gerrod Chadwell, who will be on her bag this week. The 41-year-old Lewis has done countless outings and community events like this over the years to bring publicity to the tour, and she’ll leave quite a legacy for players, well beyond her 13 wins “I hope a lot of them have seen what I've done behind the scenes to help the tour, and the little things that I do,” Lewis said this week at the Memorial Park Golf Course. “I've tried to instill that in the players, especially those Solheim [Cup] players, just tried to get them to see how they can help outside of just playing golf.

I try to lead by example and do the right thing and try to get other people to follow. I care a lot. I care too much probably, at times.