Thitikul takes Americas Open, first title of '25

JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand turned backmost a brace of challenges Sunday and played bogey-free implicit the last 27 holes astatine Liberty National, closing with a 3-under 69 for a four-shot triumph implicit Celine Boutier successful the Mizuho Americas Open.

Thitikul, who captured the Race to CME Globe and its $4 cardinal prize to extremity past season, won for the archetypal clip this twelvemonth and the 5th clip successful her LPGA Tour career.

Nelly Korda is inactive trying to triumph for the archetypal clip this year. She was wrong 1 changeable of Thitikul until driving into the hazard connected the par-4 ninth spread and taking bogey. It was a downward spiral from there, arsenic Korda played the backmost 9 with 2 bogeys and nary birdies and was ne'er a origin the remainder of the way.

The last situation came from Boutier, who was posed to drawback the Thai subordinate connected the 15th spread erstwhile she deed her attack to 10 feet. Thitikul faced a pugnacious par prevention from a bunker near of the green, with her ft up against the slope and having to wide different bunker to a backmost pin.

Thitikul pulled disconnected the changeable perfectly to 3 feet to prevention par. Boutier not lone missed her birdie chance, she missed the 30-inch comeback putt and made bogey. Instead of a two-shot plaything and a necktie for the lead, Boutier fell 3 backmost with 3 holes to play.

Jeeno Thitikul collects her 5th LPGA Tour rubric present astatine the Mizuho Americas Open 🏆 pic.twitter.com/llIbCjYn06

On the 16th, Boutier missed an 8-foot birdie putt and Thitikul made her par putt from 7 feet to enactment 3 shots behind. Thitikul each but ended the tourney with a 10-foot birdie putt connected the 17th hole, and she capped disconnected a cleanable par with a par prevention connected the 18th.

"I cognize that a batch of putts didn't driblet connected the beforehand nine, but I'm trying to bash my best," Thitikul said. "I was conscionable trying to archer myself, 'Be patient, it's coming, it's coming.' That's beauteous overmuch what I told myself today."

Thitikul finished astatine 17-under 271 and won $450,000, pushing her implicit $1 cardinal for the twelvemonth and reclaiming the pb successful the Race to CME Globe.

Boutier changeable 72 to decorativeness second, followed by Carlota Ciganda (70) and Andrea Lee (72).

Thitikul didn't marque galore putts connected the beforehand nine, but conscionable similar the backmost 9 connected Saturday, she stayed successful beforehand by not making immoderate bogeys. She made birdie connected the opening hole, and her champion enactment was a 6-iron to a backmost pin, utilizing the slope to provender the shot down to 5 feet.

It was 1 of lone 2 birdies for the round. That's wherever Korda fell back. The No. 1 subordinate successful women's play made 3 birdies connected the beforehand nine, the past 1 connected the par-5 eighth hole, to get wrong 1 shot. That was the past birdie for Korda the remainder of the round. She closed with a 73 to necktie for fifth.

The tournament, hosted by Michelle Wie West, pairs American Junior Golf Association players with the LPGA pros. Aphrodite Deng, who lives astir 20 minutes away, won the AJGA part that utilized the modified Stableford scoring.