Thailand’s Jeeno Thitikul came close to securing her maiden Major title at the 2025 Amundi Evian Championship losing out in a playoff.
The former world number one was beaten by Australia’s Grace Kim in a two-hole playoff at Evian Resort Golf Club.
However, the five-time LET winner has a good record at this golf course with a solo fifth place in 2021, T8 in 2022, T9 in 2023 and her runner-up finish in 2025.
“It’s always nice to be back here again,” said Thitikul. “Evian is one of my favourite courses and one of my favourite Majors for sure. Having a really great year finishing last year, I know I came up short but if you looked up to it, you’re really grateful for that because you have a chance to get in contention.
“Even when I came back here, it’s always going to be in my mind what happened last year, but I feel like I had good and bad stuff and then you can’t let it go. You can’t be like I’m just going to let it go and I don’t want to think about what’s happening.
“Because if you really don’t and then tell yourself not to, it’s always going to be stuck in your mind. I feel like what has happened in the last couple of years in this tournament, it’s made me who I am today, so I will just stick to the positives.”
It’s been a long stretch of Majors for the Thai star, who has been preparing as best as she can with the differing conditions.
However, during the tournament she wants to keep everything the same and just do her normal routines in search of her first Major title.
She continued: “I knew I had a lot of preparations in these two months with four majors coming, but obviously I’m just trying to do my routine the same, and the preparations. I always stick on my chipping to get it better and better. For AIG everyone knows we’ll be playing some low shots into the wind and with the wind.”
During this year’s Amundi Evian Championship, for every birdie made Amundi will make a donation to the Thailand Golf Foundation – an organisation dedicated to help underprivileged Thai children access golf from primary school age.
Thitikul, who won her first LET title at the age of 14 on the LET, was delighted to hear about the activation.
She added: “It’s great. I think everyone really want to give it back anyway. Everyone on the Tour, all the players and then to be able to get our job in a week and then be a part of little things that we can help to give back to the communities is great. It’s just like double, double. You do your job and then you can help lots of people. I’m really honoured and really grateful that our job can be a part of helping people.”
Thitikul will tee it up in the first round of the Amundi Evian Championship at 12.36 pm (local time) alongside England’s Charley Hull and New Zealand’s Lydia Ko.
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