JUTANUGARN WINS KINGSMILL CHAMPIONSHIP

In The Winner’s Circle with ARIYA JUTANUGARN

Kingsmill Championship presented by GEICO

Kingsmill Resort - River Course

Williamsburg, Virginia

May 20, 2018

Hometown/Resides: Bangkok, Thailand/Orlando, Fla.

Birthdate: Nov. 23, 1995; currently 22 years, 5 months, 27 days

Qualified for LPGA Tour: Tied for third at the 2014 LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament

Turned Professional/Rookie Year: 2012/2015       

              

VICTORIES

LPGA: Eighth career victory and first of 2018

PREVIOUS LPGA WINS: 2016 Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic, 2016 Kingsmill Championship presented by JTBC, 2016 LPGA Volvik Championship, 2016 Ricoh Women’s British Open, 2016 Canadian Pacific Women’s Open, 2017 Manulife LPGA Classic, 2017 CME Group Tour Championship

RACE TO CME GLOBE

Jutanugarn earns 500 points and is projected to move to first in the Race to CME Globe with 1,735 points

MONEY

Jutanugarn earns $195,000; she ranks first on the Official Money List this season with $771,390 and has earned $5,354,722 in her career

PREVIOUS KINGSMILL CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS

2017 – T18; 2016 – WIN; 2015 – CUT; 2013 – T3

2018 IN A NUTSHELL ON THE LPGA

12 events played, 12 cuts made, $771,390, one victory (Tour-leading seven additional top-10 finishes)

OF NOTE

• Jutanugarn is the 12th different winner of the 2018 season and the second winner from Thailand
• Jutanugarn and Brooke Henderson are the only two players with wins in 2016, 2017 and 2018
• Jutanugarn is the only player on Tour to have started and made the cut in all 12 tournaments this season
• Jutanugarn (2016, 2018) joins Cristie Kerr (2005, 2009, 2013) as the only players to win the Kingsmill Championship multiple times
• Moriya and Ariya Jutanugarn are just the second set of sisters to win on the LPGA Tour, joining Annika (72 wins) and Charlotta Sorenstam (one win) who also won in the same season in 2000
• Jutanugarn, the 2016 Rolex Player of the Year and Race to CME Globe winner, became the first player from Thailand to win on the LPGA Tour and the first-ever major champion (male or female) from Thailand