Family and Education
Thompson's two brothers also are golfers: Nicholas Thompson, plays professionally on the PGA Tour and Curtis Thompson attends Louisiana State University. Alexis was home-schooled and told an interviewer in September 2012 that she had "graduated a few months ago."
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