On the latest edition of the Fore-All Podcast, my co-host Jesse Morrison and I compared the LPGA Tour Player of the Year to predicting the Major League Baseball MVPs. You could be intentionally controversial, and pick against Aaron Judge or Shohei Ohtani, but why go against the evidence.
Jeeno Thitikul isn’t just the best player in the world of women’s golf, she is so clearly the person with the highest floor on the LPGA Tour. Barring injury, it is impossible to draw up a scenario where Thitikul isn’t top five in the Player of the Year standings come the end of the year.
Thitikul won three times on the LPGA Tour, which led the Tour, and made 19/20 cuts. More incredibly though, Thitikul had 14 top-10 finishes. In 20 starts. Think about that. Is that stat not impressive enough for you? She finished top five 12 times, she finished top two seven times. Her last time finishing lower than seventh on the LPGA Tour was in a tournament that started in July.
Thitikul is the definition of a player with no apparent weakness. She finished in the top 20 of strokes gained off the tee, approach, around the green and putting. She finished the season gaining 3.04 strokes over the field, the most in a full season since these stats started being tracked in 2022.
Thitikul led in par 3 scoring average and par 4 scoring average in 2025. She really struggled on par 5s though, ranking third on the tour in scoring on those holes.
Thitikul led the Tour in scoring average for the third year in a row. She also led in money for the second year in a row after winning her second CME Group Tour Championship in a row.
If there was one concern, it is finishing major championships. Time and again she has put herself in good position to win, with nine top-10 finishes in majors since 2021, but a combination of bad luck, incredible play from others, and sometimes bad play from Thitikul, has led to a zero in that column up to this point. Don’t expect that to continue for long.
There’s really no argument here for anyone else, Thitikul is simply the best player in the world, and at only 22-years-old, probably will be for a long time.
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