{"id":62417,"date":"2025-08-06T10:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/62417\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T10:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:47:17","slug":"this-carrollton-resident-is-now-the-no-1-womens-golfer-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/62417\/","title":{"rendered":"This Carrollton resident is now the No. 1 women\u2019s golfer in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">North Texas is home to some world-class athletes, and that includes elite golfers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">On Monday, Carrollton resident Jeeno Thitikul reached No. 1 in the Rolex Women\u2019s World Golf Rankings for the second time in her career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Thitikul overtook LPGA sensation Nelly Korda, who had held the top spot since March 25, 2024. The rise in the rankings comes after a solid showing in the AIG Women\u2019s Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Thitikul is a 22-year-old LPGA rising star and native of Thailand. She finished in a tie for fourth at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/golf\/2025\/06\/22\/minjee-lee-conquers-friscos-fields-ranch-east-at-womens-pga-championship-for-third-major\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/golf\/2025\/06\/22\/minjee-lee-conquers-friscos-fields-ranch-east-at-womens-pga-championship-for-third-major\/\">the PGA Women\u2019s Championship this year at Field Ranch East in Frisco<\/a> and has five wins in her LPGA career thus far.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Roundup<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-cta-social-module__zWZy- mb-4\">Get the latest D-FW sports news, analysis and opinion delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, Kevin Sherrington&#8217;s A La Carte.<\/p>\n<p>Related:<a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-related-story-module__82BFj\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/golf\/2025\/06\/22\/minjee-lee-conquers-friscos-fields-ranch-east-at-womens-pga-championship-for-third-major\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">After Minjee Lee\u2019s Women\u2019s PGA Championship win, PGA Frisco\u2019s gaze quickly turns to 2027<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Bryson DeChambeau was one of the more prominent golfers to own a home in Carrollton before recently selling. Minjee Lee, Celine Boutier, and Angela Stanford are other LPGA golfers who reside in the Dallas area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/golf\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more golf coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Texas is home to some world-class athletes, and that includes elite golfers. On Monday, Carrollton resident Jeeno&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,33055,99],"class_list":["post-62417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-lpga","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}