Jeeno Thitikul completes dominant LPGA season with tour championship win

Jeeno Thitikul won the LPGA’s season-ending championship for the second year in a row on Sunday, and the 22-year-old broke a long-standing tour record in the process.

The phenom won the CME Group Tour Championship by four shots for her seventh career victory and third this year.

“I mean, I love this golf course,” Thitikul said of Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Fla. “To be honest, playing here at CME, our last tournament of the year, gives me a really good energy.”

Thitikul dominated on tour in 2025 — only Miyu Yamashita also won twice, with 27 players each winning one tournament. With this victory, Thitikul surpassed Annika Sorenstam’s single-season scoring average record, which the 10-time major champion set in 2002 (68.697). Thitikul now holds the record at 68.68. She shot 67-63-64-68 to edge by Sorenstam, coming in at 26-under-par for the tournament. Pajaree Anannarukarn claimed second place at 22-under, and Nelly Korda was third at 20-under.

Thitikul will take home a $4 million prize for her win on Sunday. She’s now earned $17.3 million in four full seasons on the LPGA, moving into the top 10 on the Official Career Money List. Thailand’s star has come along at a good time — the LPGA’s purses increased by record margins in 2025, and in 2026, all of the tour’s North American events will be broadcast live — no tape-delays — for the first time.

Thitikul came into the championship with a sore left wrist and took off an entire day of practice to let it rest. But she came out firing on Thursday, putting together an effortless four rounds to not only claim the title, but the LPGA’s points-based Player of the Year award. Thitikul made three bogeys all week in Naples.

“Last week in Dallas I was worry a lot that I might not be able to play this week, but I think maybe that one is the point that I’m not thinking too much. I’m not expecting things,” she said.

Thitikul is only the second player to win back-to-back at the CME Group Tour Championship, joining Jin Young Ko (2020, 2021). It was first contested in 2011.

This article originally appeared in The Athletic.

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