Thai star Atthaya Thitikul has earned the LPGA Tour's 2022 Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year award with two events remaining. 

With two victories this season, Thitikul clinched the honor after finishing in a tie for 10th at last week’s Toto Japan Classic. The 19-year-old has earned 1,537 points and holds an insurmountable 250-point lead over Hye-Jin Choi, who withdrew from this week's Pelican Women’s Championship.

Thitikul will receive the award at the 2022 Rolex LPGA Awards ceremony on November 17 at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort in Naples, Florida, during the week of the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship. She is the second consecutive player from Thailand to earn Rookie of the Year honors and third overall, joining Patty Tavatanakit (2021) and Moriya Jutanugarn (2013).

“It is such an honor to win the Rookie of the Year award, especially being the second consecutive player from Thailand to win this honor,” said Thitikul. “I’m happy to have made my home country proud. My rookie year has been really fun and memorable, but we still have a long way to go.”

Thitikul first earned LPGA Tour membership after she finished third at LPGA Q-Series in 2021. In March, Thitikul became a Rolex First-Time Winner at the JTBC Classic when she defeated Nanna Koerstz Madsen in a playoff. She earned her second LPGA title in September, beating Danielle Kang with a birdie on the second playoff hole to win the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship.

Along with her two victories, Thitikul has 13 additional top-10 finishes this season, including a solo fourth at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, a tie for eighth at the Amundi Evian Championship and a tie for seventh at the AIG Women’s Open.

Thitikul ascended to No. 1 in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings on October 31, becoming just the second Thai player to ever do so alongside Ariya Jutanugarn. With two events left, she is currently second in the Race to CME Globe standings (2,690.127 points), third in scoring average (69.435) and tied for third in the Rolex Player of the Year standings (130 points), 20 points behind leader Lydia Ko.

Thitikul turned professional in 2020 after a stellar amateur career that saw her become the youngest person ever to win a professional tournament at the 2017 Ladies European Thailand Championship at 14 years, 4 months and 19 days. She also won the 2019 Ladies European Thailand Championship as an amateur.

Prior to joining the LPGA Tour, Thitikul won the Race to Costa del Sol, Rookie of the Year and Player of the Year honors in 2021 on the Ladies European Tour.