{"id":858025,"date":"2026-08-17T03:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T03:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/858025\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T03:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T03:50:13","slug":"world-no-2-jeeno-thitikul-leads-thai-charge-to-lpga-title-in-portland-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/858025\/","title":{"rendered":"World No.2, Jeeno Thitikul, leads Thai charge to LPGA title in Portland \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeeno Thitikul has run off five straight birdies early and closed with an eight-under 64 for a one-shot victory in Portland and her third LPGA Tour title of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thitikul led an all-Thailand finish, with Arpichaya Yubol (67) and Chanettee Wannasaen (63) tying for second at Columbia Edgewater Country Club on Sunday (Monday AEST).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/world-no-2-leads-thai-charge-to-lpga-title-in-portland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World No.2, Jeeno Thitikul, leads Thai charge to LPGA title in Portland<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">American Sophia Schubert, the 54-hole leader, had to settle for a 71 and fourth place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 23-year-old Thitikul won for the 10th time in her LPGA career, making her the eighth player to reach 10 wins or more before turning 24. She also joined Nelly Korda as three-time winners this year on the tour.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786938613_870_.jpeg\" alt=\"Jeeno Thitikul.\"\/>[Photo: AP PHOTO] Jeeno Thitikul had eight birdies and an eagle in her impressive final round. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s mean a lot. I would say every win it\u2019s mean a lot to the sacrifice that we put in, the work that we put \u200cin,\u201d Thitikul said after the victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2026 (I\u2019ve) had a time that I have a doubt, like, \u2018What is going on in my games?,\u2019 and then when you get it you\u2019re just like, \u2018Wow, this is what you\u2019re waiting for.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world No.2 finished at 22-under 266 and won $US300,000 ($A425,000), moving her closer to $US20 million ($A28 million) in career earnings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">France\u2019s Celine Boutier (66), Pajaree Anannarukarn (67) and South Korea\u2019s Narin An (69) tied for \u200bfifth at 16 under, while American Rose Zhang (68) \u2060shared eighth at 15 under with another Thai Suvichaya Vinijchaitham (66).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robyn Choi (71) was the best of the Australians at nine under, while Grace Kim (77) finished two under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thitikul, who added the Portland title to victories earlier this season \u200bat Honda LPGA Thailand and the Mizuho Americas Open, took pride in the growing presence of Thai players near the top of LPGA leaderboards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYeah, like we have a lot, \u2060a lot of talented players and then I definitely believe that we can be \u200con the top \u200bof the leaderboard,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt just matter of the time, and I \u200bjust really want \u200cto inspire the next generation of Thai as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeeno Thitikul has run off five straight birdies early and closed with an eight-under 64 for a one-shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[126996,64,63,755,121700,21225,428455,301647,428456,85,12632],"class_list":["post-858025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-arpichaya-yubol","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-jeeno-thitikul","tag-nelly-korda","tag-portland-lpga","tag-robyn-choi","tag-sophia-schubert","tag-sports","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}