A $4 million first-place prize goes a great distance towards profitable a cash title.
Jeeno Thitikul delivered a knock-out punch Sunday on the 2024 CME Group Tour Championship, going eagle-birdie on Nos. 17 and 18 to win the LPGA’s season finale by a shot.
Within the course of, she banked a cool $4 million, the most important prize on the circuit.
Going into the week, whoever gained the CME was seemingly going to be the season-long cash champ, based mostly on that vast payday.
Thitikul’s win left the LPGA’s seven-time winner in 2024 in second place in cash, however Nelly Korda nonetheless banked greater than $4 million this season.
Of word: everybody who completed within the high 10 surpassed the $2 million mark.
Right here’s a more in-depth have a look at the highest 10 in 2024. You possibly can see your complete LPGA listing right here.
Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand reacts on the fifteenth gap in the course of the ultimate spherical of the CME Group Tour Championship 2024 at Tiburon Golf Membership. (Michael Reaves/Getty Photographs)
Nelly Korda of the US performs her shot from the seventh tee in the course of the ultimate spherical of The ANNIKA pushed by Gainbridge at Pelican 2024 at Pelican Golf Membership on November 17, 2024 in Belleair, Florida. (Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Photographs)
Lydia Ko of New Zealand smiles as she walks off the 18th inexperienced in the course of the third spherical of the Hilton Grand Holidays Event of Champions at Lake Nona Golf & Nation Membership on January 20, 2024, in Orlando, Florida. (Photograph by Julio Aguilar/Getty Photographs)
Yuka Saso watches her tee shot from gap 1 in the course of the ultimate spherical of the 2024 U.S. Girls’s Open. (John Jones-Imagn Photographs)
Haeran Ryu poses with the trophy after profitable the 2024 FM Championship at TPC Boston. (Raj Mehta/Getty Photographs)
Ayaka Furue of Japan poses with the trophy after wining the Amundi Evian Championship on the 18th gap in the course of the ultimate spherical of the Amundi Evian Championship at Evian Resort Golf Membership on July 14, 2024, in Evian-les-Bains, France. (Photograph by Valerio Pennicino/Getty Photographs)
China’s Yin Ruoning celebrates with the trophy after profitable the LPGA Maybank Championship golf match on the Kuala Lumpur Golf and Nation Membership in Kuala Lumpur on October 27, 2024. (Photograph by Mohd RASFAN / AFP) (Photograph by MOHD RASFAN/AFP through Getty Photographs)
Lilia Vu of the US appears on from the third gap throughout a follow spherical previous to the CME Group Tour Championship 2024 at Tiburon Golf Membership on November 20, 2024, in Naples, Florida. (Photograph by Michael Reaves/Getty Photographs)
Hannah Inexperienced of Australia poses with the champion’s trophy after her victory on the finish of the 2024 BMW Girls Championship golf match at Seowon Valley Nation Membership. (Jung Yeon-Je/ AFP through Getty Photographs)
Lauren Coughlin is all smiles after profitable the 2024 CPKC Girls’s Open. (Sergei Belski-Imagn Photographs)
