{"id":88817,"date":"2025-11-26T19:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/thitikul-sets-record-in-lpga-final-seeks-title-and-million-dollar-prize\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T19:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:30:23","slug":"thitikul-sets-record-in-lpga-final-seeks-title-and-million-dollar-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/thitikul-sets-record-in-lpga-final-seeks-title-and-million-dollar-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Thitikul Sets Record in LPGA Final: Seeks Title and Million-Dollar Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Jeeno Thitikul Shows His Dominance at the CME Group Tour Championship<\/h2>\nThai golfer Jeeno Thitikul, with a masterful performance, leads the CME Group Tour Championship with a three-stroke lead, heading towards another $4 million prize and the LPGA Player of the Year title.\nThitikul signed a card of 63 strokes, nine under par, showing impeccable play with <em>birdies<\/em> on each hole.\nNelly Korda, who was displaced by Thitikul in the world ranking at the beginning of the year, achieved a 64 that placed her at the top of the ranking until Thitikul entered the action.\nThitikul, the defending champion, is at 14 under par, with a performance that included four consecutive <em>birdies<\/em> and six in eight holes.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Better than yesterday, for sure. I still have no complaints with a game without <em>bogeys<\/em> and nine <em>birdies<\/em>. I&#8217;ll take it.<\/p><cite>Jeeno Thitikul<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nSomi Lee, with a 70, and Nasa Hataoka, with a 67, are four strokes behind the leader.\nSei Young Kim, who played alongside Thitikul, achieved a 66, highlighting the impressive performance of the Thai player.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In nine holes, Jeeno is five strokes ahead. I try to make a lot of <em>birdies<\/em>, especially in the second half. She is amazing.<\/p><cite>Sei Young Kim<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThitikul leads the ranking for the LPGA Player of the Year award. Miyuu Yamashita of Japan, with a 69, is nine strokes away.\nKorda, who hasn&#8217;t won this year yet, performed well in the second round, but is five strokes behind Thitikul.\nThitikul started her <em>birdie<\/em> streak with two 10-foot putts on the eighth and ninth holes.\nSeven players, including Brooke Henderson and Minjee Lee, are five strokes behind Thitikul, in a competition for the $4 million prize.\nThitikul is aware of the need to maintain her <em>birdies<\/em> pace.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>As I always say, all the winners here, the score is over 20, which is very low. We need to do more and more.<\/p><cite>Jeeno Thitikul<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeeno Thitikul Shows His Dominance at the CME Group Tour Championship Thai golfer Jeeno Thitikul, with a masterful performance, leads the CME Group Tour Championship with a three-stroke lead, heading towards another $4 million prize and the LPGA Player of the Year title. Thitikul signed a card of 63 strokes, nine under par, showing impeccable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1345,163,1341,1515],"class_list":{"0":"post-88817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-birdies","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-jeeno-thitikul","11":"tag-lpga"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}