Atthaya Thitikul

On 23 February, 3 days after her 14th birthday, Thitikul made her first appearance at the Honda LPGA Thailand on the LPGA Tour, where she finished 37th out of the 66 competitors.

She had earned her place in the field when she finished runner-up in the Thailand Amateur Open the previous August when she was just 13 years and 6 months old.

After competing in the LPGA event, she won the Taiwan Amateur Open in June.

Her emergence onto the international golf scene came with her victory at Ladies European Thailand Championship on the Ladies European Tour as an amateur on 9 July.

This win made her became the youngest person ever to win a professional golf tour event at age 14 years, 4 months and 19 days old.

In August, she won the back-to-back Smyth Salver, low amateur honour, at the Women's British Open after finishing in a tie for 29th place at Woburn.

At the ANA Inspiration in March, she finished in a tie for 30th place and earned low amateur honours.

In August, she was the only amateur to make the cut at the Woman's British Open and won the Smyth Salver, low amateur award.

On 15 September, she broke the course record at World Junior Girls Championship on Camelot Golf and Country Club in Ottawa with a score of 12-under-par 60 in the final round to win the title by 2 strokes.

She missed the cut at the British Open by a shot but made the cut at the Evian Championship, playing the final two rounds and finishing in 64th place.

Thitikul also competed at the Junior Dutch Open in July.

In the final round, she carded a course-record 8-under-par round to win the tournament by eight clear shots.

In August, she won an individual gold medal and was part of the Thailand team that won another gold in the team event at the Southeast Asian Games in Malaysia.

In February, Thitikul competed in the Women's Amateur Asia-Pacific Championship in Singapore, just as she turned 15.

She was part of a four-way tie in the final round but went onto to win the title.

Her victory earned her a place in the HSBC Women's Champions on the same course, plus entries into the ANA Inspiration at Mission Hills, California and for a place in the British Open, for a second year running.

Atthaya Thitikul (อาฒยา ฐิติกุล,, ; born 20 February 2003) is a Thai professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tour.

Thitikul was born on 20 February 2003 in Ban Pong, Ratchaburi to Montree Thitikul and Siriwan.

She first started playing golf at the age of 6 years old, when her father presented the opportunity to play golf or tennis.

She chose golf after watching pictures of both sports on YouTube.

She graduated from Sarasas Witaed Nakhonpathom School, a high school in Nakhon Pathom.

She is also known by her nickname, "Jeen" or "Jeeno".

The previous record belonged to Canadian Brooke Henderson who won the 2012 Canadian Women's Tour aged 14 years, 9 months, and 3 days.

Her amateur status meant that she could not claim the first prize of 45,000 euros for winning but it gave her the entries into both the Women's British Open and the Evian Championship in France.

At the HSBC event, she was the joint youngest starter of the championship at 15 years and 9 months, the exact same age at which Singapore's Amanda Tan competed in 2014.

She carded a bogey-free final round of six-under par 66 to finish tied for eighth.

She is the youngest golfer ever to win a professional golf tournament at aged 14 years, 4 months and 19 days after winning the Ladies European Thailand Championship as an amateur on 9 July 2017.

At the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Thitikul teamed with Vanchai Luangnitikul to win the mixed team gold medal for Thailand.

On 24 June, Thitikul won the Ladies European Thailand Championship for the second time in three years.

She finished with a five-under-par 67 to win by five shots from Esther Henseleit.

She was the number one ranked women's amateur golfer in the world for a total of 12 weeks, rising to the top on two occasions, the first time on 26 June 2019.

On 27 March 2022, Thitikul won for the first time on the LPGA Tour at the JTBC Classic.

While still age 19 in September 2022, Thitikul had two wins on the professional LPGA Tour and four wins on the Ladies European Tour.

On 31 October 2022, Thitikul became the number 1 ranked golfer in the Women's World Golf Rankings, and was considered to be the fastest rising star in golf.

On 10 November, she was named the 2022 LPGA Tour Rookie of the Year.

In 2023, Thitikul won the Vare Trophy for the lowest scoring average on the LPGA Tour.

Following her win, Thitikul was ranked 1st in the world on the women's World Amateur Golf Ranking on 26 June and then again from October 2019 until January 2020 before turning professional.

In December, she represented Thailand at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games.

She won a bronze medal in the women's team event.

Thitikul turned professional in January 2020 and played several events in Australia, including the Women’s NSW Open in which she finished fourth.