KLPGA winner Na Rin An wins LPGA Q School with Thailand’s Atthaya Thitikul  taking 3rd spot

After eight exhausting rounds of play, the 2021 LPGA Q-Series has come to an end.

In all, 46 players finished at -4 or better to secure Tour status for 2022.

KLPGA winner Na Rin An posted a blazing 6-under 66 for the lowest score of the final round to earn medalist honors at -33 in her first appearance in an LPGA Q-Series.

An beat out runner-up and Stage II medalist Pauline Roussin-Bouchard by one stroke.

“I think I'm very happy to have won the Q-Series,” said An, who carded seven birdies and one bogey in her eighth round. “The past two weeks have been physically straining, but I'm happy to have finished on a high note.”

2022 LPGA Tour rookies

An is one of 29 players to become 2022 LPGA Tour rookies from their finish at Q-Series.

Ladies European Tour Player of the Year Atthaya Thitikul from Thailand rounded out the top three at -26 after a final-round 69.

After a seventh-round 79, major champion Hinako Shibuno secured her Tour card on Sunday with a final 69 to finish T20 at -10.

Other notables to earn their LPGA Tour for 2022 include two-time Solheim Cup Team Europe member Emily Kristine Pedersen (T14) and two-time LET winner Stephanie Kyriacou (T16).

Four amateurs earned status should they turn professional and accept Membership – Vivian Hou (T20), Brooke Matthews (T30), Yu-Sang Hou (T30) and Gina Kim (T35).

Players that finished outside the top 20 and ties also received 2022 Symetra Tour status.

Kim, who medaled at Stage I, is proud to see her hard work pay off after beginning her qualifying journey in August.

2022 LPGA TOUR ROOKIES

The following players, should they choose to accept LPGA Tour status, would become 2022 LPGA Tour rookies:

2021 SYMETRA TOUR GRADUATES (5)

Casey Danielson (United States), Sophia Schubert (United States), Amanda Doherty (United States), Allison Emrey (United States), Morgane Metraux (Switzerland)

LPGA Q-SERIES TOP-45 AND TIES (29)

Julie Amie (France), Na Rin An (Republic of Korea), Hye-Jin Choi (Republic of Korea), Allisen Corpuz (United States), Olivia Cowan (Germany), Karis Davidson (Australia), Ayaka Furue (Japan), Linn Grant (Sweden), Haylee Harford (United States), Lauren Hartlage (United States), Yaeeun Hong (Republic of Korea), Yu-Chiang Hou (Chinese Taipei), Yu-Sang Hou (Chinese Taipei), Gina Kim (United States), Stephanie Kyriacou (Australia), Agathe Laisne (France), Brooke Matthews (United States), Sanna Nuutinen (Finland), Kaitlyn Papp (United States), Jessica Peng (Chinese Taipei), Pauline Roussin-Bouchard (France), Hinako Shibuno (Japan), Maddie Szeryk (Canada), Atthaya Thitikul (Thailand), Savannah Vilaubi (United States), Dewi Weber (Netherlands), Ruoning Yin (China), Katie Yoo (United States), Weiwei Zhang (China).

Atthaya Thitikul (3rd , -26)

Thitikul, 18, is from Ratchaburi, Thailand

Her career-best finish on the LPGA Tour is second, at the 2021 Honda LPGA Thailand and the 2021 Trust Golf Women’s Scottish Open

Thitikul also earned two additional top-five finishes on Tour in 2021, at the Amundi Evian Championship (5th) and the ISPS Handa World Invitational (4th)

She has made 14 of 15 cuts since 2017 on Tour

In 2021 on the Ladies European Tour, Thitikul won twice and earned an additional 12 top-10 finishes; she’s won four times on the LET in her career

She earned Rookie of the Year and Player of the Year honors, and finished first in the Race to Costa Del Sol (Order of Merit)

In 2017, Thitikul won the Ladies European Thailand Championship as an amateur, making her the youngest person ever to win a professional golf tour event at 14 years, four months and 19 days old

As an amateur, her wins include the 2016 Singha Thailand Junior World Championship, the 2017 Taiwan Amateur Championship, the 2018 Women’s Amateur Asia Pacific, the 2018 & 2019 World Junior Girls Championship and the 2019 Thailand Ladies Amateur Open