The only surprise was that it took so long. Jeeno Thitikul won the Buick LPGA Shanghai Sunday, coming from four shots behind with five holes remaining to force a playoff with Minami Katsu. With that win, Thitikul became the first player to win multiple tournaments, ending a run of 26 distinct winners. Jeeno was one of six players to win multiple times last season and despite just the one win and a disappointing record in the majors, she has been one of the best players on Tour all season.

Jeeno Thitikul leads the LPGA Tour in several categories, including Total Strokes Gained, Putts Per GIR Average, Scoring Average, Birdie Percentage, Bogey Avoidance, Par 3 Scoring and Par 4 Scoring. With five tournaments left in the Season, Thitikul has all but sown up the Race to CME Globe, Rolex Player of the Year and Aon Risk Reward Challenge. Even so, there is still plenty to play for down the stretch, and plenty of statistics Jeeno doesn’t lead in. So, let’s take one last look at some notable statistics around the LPGA Tour ahead of the last two months of the season.

16 - Top-25 Finishes for Minjee Lee

Lee is actually still leading the LPGA in Official Money despite now trailing Jeeno Thitkul by one win. Lee is tied for fourth in Top-10 Finishes and tied for fifth in cuts made, but of those 18 made cuts in 19 events, she has failed to finishe top-25 just twice. I wrote above that Jeeno Thitikul basically has Player of the Year won, but if Minjee Lee picks up another win, she will at least make it close.

8 - Top-10 Finishes Without a Win for Nelly Korda

With 26 different winners on the LPGA Tour this season, you might think everyone who is anyone has picked up a win, but that isn’t the case. The top seven in Top-10 Finishes Without a Win features three Hall-of-Famers, and you have to scroll past the top 15 before you find players who aren’t household names even among casual fans. Women’s golf has never been this strong worldwide, and it shows. Even with 26 different winners, a lot of really good players haven’t found the winners’ circle. We need one more distinct winner to break the record set in 1995 and matched in 2018 and 2022. With such a star-studded leaderboard of players who still haven’t won this season, I’ll be shocked if we don’t get there.

By anyone else’s standards, Nelly Korda has had a fine season. She is third on Tour in top-10s, Total Strokes Gained, Rounds in the 60s, Par 4 Scoring average and Scoring Average Per Round. Korda is second in Birdie or Better Percentage, first in Par 5 Scoring Average sixth in CME Points. In any discussion of the best player in the world, she ranks no lower than second. And yet, on the heels of her historic 2024 season in which she won seven times, this season has to be considered a disappointment. Korda ranks 57th in Round 4 Scoring Average, which accounts for some of her near misses. Korda had 15 wins from 2021 to 2025, and she will almost certainly start racking up wins again in 2026, if not sooner.

24 - Cuts made by Mao Saigo

Saigo leads the Tour in Cuts Made, but her 29 total starts is nearly as impressive. Saigo is tied for second with Chanettee Wannasaen in total starts, trailing only Jasmine Suwannapura’s 30 starts this season. Saigo isn’t just squeaking in under the cutline, earning six top-10s, including a win at the Chevron Championship. Saigo was the Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year in 2024 thanks to seven top-10s and 24 top-40s, and in 2025 she basically repeated that performance and added a major win. It can be easy to overlook Saigo among all the emerging young talent on the LPGA, especially coming from Japan, but she is fourth in the Player of the Year standings and it won’t surprise me if she wins one sooner than later.

6 - Wins by LPGA Rookies this season

After no rookies won in 2024, the rookie class announced its presence with authority in 2025. Twins Chisato Iwai and Akie Iwai were two of the rookies from Japan to win, along with Miyu Yamashita and Rio Takeda. Yamashita is second on Tour with 10 top-10 finishes. She has a top-10 in 50 percent of her starts, which is good for third. And she might not even be the most impressive rookie this season.

Lottie Woad won on the European Tour as an amateur before winning her professional debut at the ISPS HANDA Women’s Scottish Open. She had two top-10s at Majors this season and finished in the top 10 in 60 percent of her starts, second only to Jeeno Thitikul. I picked Woad to be the first multi-time winner on the Tour this season and while that was incorrect, I like her chances to win at least twice next season.

76.56% - Greens in Regulation Percentage of Rio Takeda

Takeda is a rookie this season but she is actually the defending champion at the upcoming TOTO Japan Classic, which she won last year as a non-Tour member and finished T8 in 2023. Takeda is a prototypical outstanding ballstriker who struggles on the greens. Takeda ranks 139 in strokes gained putting this season. She is just 22 years old and if she ever figures out her putter, she could start ripping off a bunch of wins.

28.57 - Average Putts Per Round for Minami Katsu

Katsu couldn’t hold off Jeeno Thitkul Sunday to keep the unique winners streak alive, but that doesn’t do much to diminish a very solid season. Exactly half of Katsu’s 1.04 Total Strokes Gained comes with her putter, where she ranks 28th. Katsu has six top-10s this season, more than her first two LPGA seasons combined. I think Katsu needs to improve her ballstriking if she is going to start contending in majors, but I expect she’ll continue to do well in weaker fields.

67.13 - Scrambling Percentage of Hyo Joo Kim

I tend to think of scrambling percentage in particular, and around-the-green stats in general, as not very predictive. Often if you get up-and-down consistently within a round or a tournament you will have very good results, but trying to predict that from week-to-week can be a fool’s errand. I may have to rethink that based on Hyo Joo Kim’s results. She has ranked in the top-10 in Strokes Gained Around the Green in four consecutive seasons, finishing in the top two in three of those. She is an average driver and ranks 116th in Green Hit percentage from the fairway, but her touch around the greens is unmatched. Kim is capable of having a good week every time out, but I will be especially interested to play her for fantasy on courses featuring small greens. If a lot of people are missing the greens, that plays right into her hands.