LPGA Rookie of the Year Winners List, Atthaya Thitikul wins 2022 award, History Since 1962.
With two victories in hand this LPGA season, Atthaya Thitikul, the Thai teenager who climbed to the top of the women's world glf rankings in October, has clinched the 2022 LPGA Rookie of the Year award.
– By winning at the JTBC Classic presented and the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship – has clinched the honor after finishing in a tie for 10th at last week’s TOTO Japan Classic.
Thitikul has earned 1,537 points and holds an insurmountable 250-point lead over Hye-Jin Choi, who withdrew from the Pelican Women’s Championship, with two events remaining in the 2022 season.
Thitikul 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).
The LPGA's rookie of the year award was first handed out in 1962. Today, its official title is Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year. Not surprisingly, the list of winners belows includes some very big names — including a double-digit number of LPGA rookies of the year who went on to earn Hall of Fame membership.
More: Full List of LPGA Player of the Year Award winners from 1966-2022.
Full List of LPGA Rookie of the Year winners from 1962-2022.
Here is the list of winners, from most-recent back to the very first:
2022 — Atthaya Thitikul
2021 — Patty Tavatanakit
2020 — not awarded
2019 — Jeongeun Lee6
2018 — Jin Young Ko
2017 — Sung Hyun Park
2016 — In Gee Chun
2015 — Sei Young Kim
2014 — Lydia Ko
2013 — Moriya Jutanugarn
2012 — So Yeon Ryu
2011 — Hee Kyung Seo
2010 — Azahara Munoz
2009 — Jiyai Shin
2008 — Yani Tseng
2007 — Angela Park
2006 — Seon-Hwa Lee
2005 — Paula Creamer
2004 — Shi-Hyun Ahn
2003 — Lorena Ochoa
2002 — Beth Bauer
2001 — Hee-Won Han
2000 — Dorothy Delasin
1999 — Mi Hyun Kim
1998 — Se Ri Pak
1997 — Lisa Hackney
1996 — Karrie Webb
1995 — Pat Hurst
1994 — Annika Sorenstam
1993 — Suzanne Strudwick
1992 — Helen Alfredsson
1991 — Brandie Burton
1990 — Hiromi Kobayashi
1989 — Pamela Wright
1988 — Liselotte Neumann
1987 — Tammie Green
1986 — Jody Rosenthal (Anschutz)
1985 — Penny Hammel
1984 — Juli Inkster
1983 — Stephanie Farwig
1982 — Patti Rizzo
1981 — Patty Sheehan
1980 — Myra Van Hoose (Blackwelder
) 1979 — Beth Daniel
1978 — Nancy Lopez
1977 — Debbie Massey
1976 — Bonnie Lauer
1975 — Amy Alcott
1974 — Jan Stephenson
1973 — Laura Baugh
1972 — Jocelyne Bourassa
1971 — Sally Little
1970 — JoAnne Carner
1969 — Jane Blalock
1968 — Sandra Post
1967 — Sharron Moran
1966 — Jan Ferraris
1965 — Margie Masters
1964 — Susie Maxwell (Berning)
1963 — Clifford Ann Creed
1962 — Mary Mills
LPGA Rookie of the Year Winners Who Became Hall-of-Famers
Since its inception in 1962, 12 Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year winners have become members of either the LPGA Hall of Fame or World Golf Hall of Fame:
Susie Maxwell Berning (1964),
Joanne Carner (1970),
Jan Stephenson (1974),
Amy Alcott (1975),
Nancy Lopez (1978),
Beth Daniel (1979),
Patty Sheehan (1981),
Juli Inkster (1984),
Annika Sorenstam (1994),
Karrie Webb (1996),
Se Ri Pak (1998) and
Lorena Ochoa (2003).
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