Helen Alfredson Retiring After Evian

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Another great character from the LPGA Tour is hanging up her spikes this week.

Beth Ann Baldry with Helen Alfredsson's story.

One of the LPGA’s all-time characters, Alfredsson, who happens to share a birthday with Seve Ballesteros and Hugh Hefner, will retire after this week’s Evian Championship. It’s fitting for the 48-year-old beauty to hang it up at the base of the French Alps, for she’s a three-time winner of the event. Last week Alfredsson said goodbye to a home crowd at the Helsingborg Open in Sweden. She made her professional debut there in 1989.

“I don’t like traveling,” said Alfredsson. “I think it’s time to get a real job maybe and do something good.”