World primary Jeeno Thitikul defended her title on the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship by holding off fellow Thai Pajaree Anannarukarn by 4 photographs.
The 22-year-old fired a four-under-par 68 to complete on 26 underneath in Florida and safe the $4m (£3.1m) winner’s prize, together with the LPGA participant of the yr award and Vare Trophy for season low-scoring common.
Together with her victory at Tiburon Golf Membership, Thitikul grew to become solely the second participant to win back-to-back LPGA Tour Championship titles – matching South Korea’s Ko Jin-young, who triumphed in 2020 and 2021.
“I like this golf course,” stated Thitikul, who recovered from a wrist damage to play within the season finale.
“Enjoying right here within the final event of the yr offers me actually good power.
“Final week in Dallas, I used to be anxious if I might be capable of play this week. However I feel that was the purpose, that I am not pondering an excessive amount of anticipating issues.
“I used to be similar to ‘I am going to be capable of play’. That is actually ok.”
