Previous world No. 1 nursing aching thumb however anticipates to rejoin trip in Arizona
RELEASED: 27 Feb 2024 at 16:46
Atthaya Thitikul, out all season due to a thumb injury, wishes to go back to action late next month in Arizona, her representative has actually informed Golfweek.
The 21-year-old Thai star was noticeable by her lack from last weekend’s Honda LPGA Thailand 2024 competition in Chon Buri, which was won by compatriot Patty Tavatanakit.
The success assisted Patty go up to 27th location from 43rd in the most recent Rolex Rankings of the world’s leading females golf players.
Atthaya ended up being the world’s top-ranked gamer for a stretch in 2022 en path to winning LPGA Trip Novice of the Year honours. In 2015, she won the Vare Prize that goes to the gamer with the most affordable scoring average on trip. She closed the 2023 LPGA season with 4 top-4 surfaces in her last 5 starts. She is still ranked 11th on the planet regardless of not having actually seen any action yet this season.
Atthaya’s representative informed Golfweek that her left thumb tendon injury has a healing window of 6 to 8 weeks. That might lead to her signing up with the trip at the Ford Champion, set up for March 28-31 in Gilbert, Arizona.
Atthaya owns 2 wins on trip, both in 2022: the JTBC Classic and Walmart NW Arkansas Champion. She caught both in playoffs. In 2023, she ended up being the only gamer in the 70-year history of the Vare Prize to make the award without winning a competition.
” I had no concept I was going to win the Vare Prize, to be truthful,” she stated after concluding the honour at the CME Group Trip Champion in Florida last November.
” In the middle of the season, I played actually bad. I indicate, I missed out on 2 cuts in the significant occasions and after that likewise was not playing rather excellent in the middle of the year. So, I believe it’s actually (significant) for me when I had the ability to recuperate from actually (being) unpleasant when I didn’t have any self-confidence.
“( I’m) actually delighted that I overcame it, surpassed it, conquered it.”
Atthaya initially completed in the Honda LPGA Thailand 3 days after her 14th birthday and ended up 37th. She ended up second to Ariya Jutanugarn in 2021 before ending up being a member of the LPGA. In 2015 she positioned 3rd in case, won by Lilia Vu of the United States, the existing world No. 1.
