Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand capped off her greatest yr with the largest money prize in ladies’s golf.
She held off an early problem from Pajaree Anannarukarn and closed with a four-under 68 to win the CME Group Tour Championship.
That noticed her declare the $4m pay-off that comes with profitable this title as soon as once more.
The victory additionally assured her of profitable the LPGA player-of-the-year award and the Vare Trophy for the bottom scoring common, the 2 largest awards in ladies’s golf.
Thitikul gained for the third time this yr on the LPGA Tour, and one final birdie on the ultimate gap at Tiburon Golf Membership gave her the bottom scoring common in tour historical past.
This was by no means actually doubtful when Thitikul began with a six-shot lead over Nelly Korda, the American she changed at No 1 within the ladies’s world rating this yr.
Anannarukarn made it a recreation, nevertheless, with 5 birdies in seven holes to tug inside two pictures going to the again 9.
Thitikul birdied the tenth and thirteenth holes, whereas her fellow Thai dropped a shot on the par-three twelfth to return the result in 5 pictures.
Thitikul picked up the richest money prize in ladies’s golf on the CME Group Tour Championship
From there, it was attending to the end line for a celebration on the 18th inexperienced. She joins Jin Younger Ko as the one back-to-back winners of the CME Group Tour Championship.
Thitikul completed at 26-under 262 for a four-shot victory.
Korda turns into the primary participant since Tiger Woods in 2010 to go from a seven-win season to not profitable the next yr.
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