CPKC WOMEN'S OPEN

August 20, 2025

Jeeno Thitikul

Mississaugua Golf & Country Club

Press Conference

THE MODERATOR: All right welcome to the media center at the 2025 CPKC Women's Open. I'm joined by Rolex Ranking No. 1 Jeeno Thitikul.

This is your first event since being named No. 1. Talk about what it meant. Your caddie will wear green bib. Probably see a couple more things you haven't seen. What does that mean.

JEENO THITIKUL: I think it will definitely means a lot to us, not just me, but also my team. My caddie have been a dream to wearing the green bibs for sure. Definitely he wear it in November '22 in Japan, and then I saw his smile. I saw his passionate and then I saw his, you know, happiness on him while wearing it.

I was just like, wow, that is just not for me, but I think for my caddie, my whole team it's mean a lot. And as athletes, once in a lifetime reaching No. 1 in the world, cannot describe how happy and how proud I have to myself.

So that's basically, you know, as I was young, I don't think I'm going reach No. 1 in the world for sure. I think just be able to win a tournament in LPGA is really good enough for me. But like ranking No. 1 in the world, it's more than I can describe.

Q. I'm just you've you have you've won already this year and have been very consistent as well. There has been a different winner every single week on the LPGA so far. What do you make of how hard it is to compete and win on the LPGA Tour?

JEENO THITIKUL: I would say so hard, especially this year. All the win, it's different faces. I don't think any players got multiple win yet on this year, which is mean like it's just not -- I think a group of people that's had talented and potential be win it's more bigger and bigger, which mean new faces, rookie -- I think three times are four times a year like new rookies have been winning on LPGA Tour.

Just I think the level of the competition, it's higher and higher. It's not an easy guys, I mean, winning on the LPGA, so you have to be real deal.

Q. What has been the key to your consistency? I think you've had 8 Top 10s so far this season including the win. What's been so important to your game?

JEENO THITIKUL: To be honest I love doing -- grinding on my week off. I think every week like after my week off, I feel so fresh and then I think like I found everything, fix being everything by lot, like just small things on the week off. That's why making me feels comfortable of playing after the weeks off pretty much.

So I don't know how I'm going to say what outstanding on my games but I think everything, it's going the right track. It doesn't shows any stat that is worse and that's like the best, but I think every stat that I have it's in the middle and in the good track.

Q. Given what you said about how important it is and how special for you and your team to be at world No. 1, how can you describe what you're going to do to try to keep that and kind of the competition you and Nelly are so close and she held it for so long, kind of that competition, if you will.

JEENO THITIKUL: If I answer to be honestly, I knew that definitely one day I going to hold it off. I don't think I'm going to stay No. 1 for like forever, until my retirement for sure. Definitely I'm going to fall off to No. 2, 5, 10, whatever it is.

I feel like every day that I've been out there -- me and Nelly trying to do our best in our job. That's pretty much we focusing on it. I don't think we are just like oh, I want to do this week the best to win it to be able to be No. 1 in the world, to be stuck on No. 1 in the world as long as possible. I don't think that's the strategy that we playing out there.

We playing out there for winning each tournaments that we able to and then improving ourself every week that we can. So that's pretty much all my perspective on that.

Q. And what are your thoughts on the young Japanese golfers who have all won on Tour this year? Kind of the new wave of young Japanese stars that have come on Tour.

JEENO THITIKUL: I think JLPGA has a lot of talented point players as well. I have played in Japan and Korea before, and those tournaments, the set up is pretty tough. Like make the players kind of strong. So I think maybe they saw example of Nasa, Ayaka, Shibuno doing it and start coming from JLPGA to LPGA.

It's kind of like all their country come fought soon, but like they come off and I know they know like they had a lot of players that got talented and I'm not surprised on how they do it. As I play on JLPGA everyone is talented and shoot like a really low under par on each day.

So they're just like so many talented player out there on the JLPGA side as well.

Q. Lastly, what do you attribute to having been such a consistent player on Tour since you came to the LPGA? What do owe your consistency to?

JEENO THITIKUL: I have no idea. (Smiling.) Maybe I just love practicing like I said. I just love being -- I'm not a fancy players which mean like hit bombs or having like really, really good short games like Lydia has or really good putter.

But I think I trying to keep everything on what number that I think I'm be able to be good at it on each tournaments so that's pretty much all I trying. But I have no idea what made me like being consistency like this.