{"id":27993,"date":"2025-11-19T06:04:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=27993"},"modified":"2025-11-19T06:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:04:26","slug":"jeeno-seeks-repeat-win-at-lpga-tour-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=27993","title":{"rendered":"Jeeno seeks repeat win at LPGA Tour Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"
Top-ranked defending champion Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand seeks her third title of the season and the richest payday in women’s golf at this week’s season-ending LPGA Tour Championship.<\/p>\n

The $11 million showdown of 60 top players for a $4 million top prize at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida, features the 22-year-old Asian star, who has a triumph among six top-10 finishes in her past seven starts.<\/p>\n

Jeeno won the Mizuho Americas Open in May and last month’s LPGA Shanghai event, but has been a runner-up four times this season, including in a fight for her first major title at July’s Evian Championship in France.<\/p>\n

“I’m super excited,” Jeeno said. “It has still been really like amazing ride this year. Definitely ups and downs. Definitely had a lot of close ones but couldn’t finish it. Cried a lot for sure on second runner-up (Evian).<\/p>\n

“But how often you fall, how fast you know how to stand up, so I think that’s a really good life learning experience for me.”<\/p>\n

Jeeno, never outside the top-10 at the Tour Championship, is also in the hunt for the season money crown, the Vare Trophy for low season scoring average and the LPGA Player of the Year award.<\/p>\n

“I think if that trophy belong to someone else, you need to give that to the person who deserve it,” Jeeno said. “So I have nothing to do more than just 100% out there.”<\/p>\n

World number four Minjee Lee of Australia leads the season prize money list with $3,822,388 while Jeeno sits $244,058 behind.<\/p>\n

Lee, who switched to a broomstick putter at the start of the campaign, won her third career major title at the Women’s PGA Championship in June and her eight top-10 efforts this year included sharing third at Evian.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t really have big expectations, so I was just trying to work through my processes and just see where it took me,” Lee said. “I’ve had quite a lot of success with it this year and hopefully continue to do that.”<\/p>\n

Jeeno leads in scoring average for the season on 68.88 strokes with world number two Nelly Korda of the United States second on 69.58.<\/p>\n

Korda has one final chance to take a victory this year after capturing seven titles in 2024.<\/p>\n

Jeeno leads in the Player of the Year chase by 16 points over Japan’s third-ranked Miyu Yamashita, who has already clinched the LPGA Rookie of the Year award.<\/p>\n

She will play in her first Tour Championship after the taking the Women’s British Open and winning again last month in Malaysia.<\/p>\n

The 10 top players will receive points with the winner taking 30.<\/p>\n

Yamashita could become only the second player to win LPGA Rookie of the Year and Player of the Year awards in the same season after American Nancy Lopez in 1978.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Top-ranked defending champion Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand seeks her third title of the season and the richest payday in women’s golf at this week’s season-ending LPGA Tour Championship. The $11 million showdown of 60 top players for a $4 million top prize at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida, features the 22-year-old Asian star, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}