They mainly were for her father, Dale, who caddied for her on the 18th hole at Memorial Par on Friday, one last father-daughter walk up the fairway and into retirement.
"I probably shouldn't have looked at my dad," Lewis said after rounds of 79-77.
"I guess my emotions are probably a lot different than theirs. They're probably a little bit more sad, where I'm just ready. I'm ready for the next chapter and ready to stop grinding over eight-footers."
Lewis, who has a seven-year-old daughter, played her final LPGA event while pregnant with her second child. She was exempt to The Chevron as a past champion. She won her first title 15 years ago at this major when it was the Kraft Nabisco at Mission Hills in California.
Her other major came on the Old Course at St Andrews. That was the signature moment during a stretch when she became the first American in nearly 20 years to be LPGA player of the year in 2012, and early in 2013 rose to No.1 in the women's world ranking for the first time.
She thought it was only fitting that she close out her career in her hometown.
"I just think back to the kid in high school wearing a back brace and being told I have to have surgery, to 25-plus years later to still be playing golf, to be doing it at this level, to have accomplished what I did," she said. "I mean, it's really kind of a fairytale. I don't think anyone would have predicted any of this."
Just reaching the LPGA was somewhat of a miracle.
Lewis was diagnosed with scoliosis when she was 11, so severe that she wore a back brace for 18 hours every day from age 11 until she got out of high school, and then had to have surgery when that didn't correct the curvature in her spine.
Her orthopedic surgeon in Houston, Gary Brock, had planned to insert two rods in her back. But in the months leading to the surgery, Brock went to a charity event, bought a raffle ticket and won a series of lessons with a golf pro who had worked with Lewis.
That's when the doctor realised Lewis was more that a recreational player. So he suggested a single rod for the surgery to allow her more flexibility and rotation. Because of that raffle ticket, Lewis went on to play at Arkansas, win an NCAA title and enjoy a distinguished LPGA career.
Her last win was in 2020 at the Ladies Scottish Open, and Lewis went on to be Solheim Cup captain twice and playing on four US teams.
And then the final act for Lewis, 41, was a day with family and friends, and a walk with her father.
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