NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Jeeno Thitikul capped off her best year with the biggest payoff in women’s golf, along with her place in the LPGA record book with the lowest scoring average in the tour’s 75-year history.

As easy as she made it look Sunday with a four-shot victory in the CME Group Tour Championship, she has memories of the road not always being so smooth.

There was that four-putt finish to lose the Kroger Queen City Championship two months ago.

“I have the ice pack put in my eyes because I cried so bad,” she said.

Then came a wrist injury last week from the firm turf at home in Dallas that left her uncertain if she could get through four rounds at Tiburon Golf Club in the season finale, much less win. She curtailed practice sessions to help.

“I think earlier in the week I just say

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