Pattaya: Teen phenom Atthaya Thitikul became the youngest known winner of a professional golf tour event with victory at the inaugural Ladies European Thailand Championship yesterday. Ko held the LET record, having won the 2013 New Zealand Open aged 15 years, nine months and 17 days. Atthaya had previously demonstrated her enormous potential when she finished tied for 37th in the recent Honda LPGA Thailand event, which she played in just a few days after her 14th birthday, on Feb 20. "My family do not play golf. Earlier in June, she won the Taiwan Amateur Open after previously being second in the Queen Sirikit Cup in China.

Source: Bangkok Post July 09, 2017 23:26 UTC