Jeeno Thitikul Highlights | 2026 Lotte Championship Round 2

This is the fifth, back up the hill. Just creeps in on that right hand side. Just an awkward hole, playing the most difficult the last couple of days. It's a difficult tee shot. And it's just an awkward second shot with just the way that the green kind of slopes and tilts. That water's very much in play, but again, another stellar shot there from Gino. Each one a different color that coordinates with the club that she's hitting. She had the 7-iron out as well, but decided to go with this 8. Does that so her parents can know what club she's hitting? That's helpful for the on-course commentator. Gino at 9. This to shoot a 31 on the front 9. She does, and her power is a lot of fun to watch. She averaged 282 yards on the driver yesterday, and that's with soft fairways. Yeah, and she played when the rain was at its heaviest, right? Yeah, yesterday morning. That time was 11 under. She was minus 9, and then at 10, another beauty. It was, and look at the hold-off finish. Just trying to draw one in there. Perfect spin control, perfect. Breaking putt is for her fifth birdie today. No one's won on the LPGA Tour more than Gino in the last couple of seasons. He's done great work on the KLPGA, sponsoring a tournament for almost 20 years, and now here since 2012. Gino at the 11th. Grant with her length and these conditions easily could carry that bunker on the right. Thought Gino might give it a rip to get there in two, but instead opting to lay up, playing well to the left to have a better angle in to a hole that's more towards the back of the green today. Dominates at every level she plays. And now it's a surprise when she doesn't play well. It doesn't happen very often. Well, I think she's had three wins this year. I mean, we should be talking about her a bit more, but we're waiting for her to win a major. To get it to 11 under par on the 11th. You said it. If you looked at the Korean contingent as a whole, Gino at 12. She's got a 7 iron in her hand and has pulled that some. To decide what it does at the end. I always felt on putts like this. My first instinct was usually right. Well, I mean, you said it yesterday, Kay. You just hit it at the flag and then you just hit it in the hole. It's as easy as that, isn't it? Nothing much to it. Exactly. We as humans want to overcome. Going with 3 wood off the tee. Pretty wide open fairway. Just want to avoid the bunker on the left. With a gap wedge in her hand. Thinking about nothing but dropping this in on top of the flagstick. That's gotta get up. She just watched Hyoju miss a putt from a similar line. Hyoju's trailed off to the right a little. Didn't do much of anything. I think probably a little peeved at herself to not hit a gap wedge in tighter than what she did. Yeah, I couldn't agree more for her standards. That was not. A couple of holes in this back 9 where you have to be a lot more accurate. Gino trading in length for accuracy using her 3 wood. I want to avoid the four bunkers on the right and one on the left. And it narrows down in the landing area. From the center of the fairway ball. Still a little bit above her feet. Just smooth little 9 iron. She's pushed that. Yeah, you can see that straightaway. She kind of span out of that very quickly. Just darted out right on her. That is a poor shot there. Hyoju have short-sighted themselves in this deep bunker. Good thump to it. She stays nice and steady over this. Ogi free for the week still. Is her 52-3. I suppose that's her sound, but it's not. I think she's going to have to get all of this if she's not careful. She's got to pitch it past the hole for it to spin back. Oh, look at this. Thought it might come back, actually. Yeah, I bet she did. She has knocked on the door a lot with major championships. But you're right. I mean, we don't really speak loudly as we probably should do. Because we feel like, you know, for her to be in the category that she deserves to be in, she has to win a major. But I do think it is a matter of time. That was just ripped. Can't imagine that had much movement on it. It looked dead straight. A high rocket. A lot of players kind of have that within them, and it's exactly what she's doing right now. That's a nice flighted gap wedge. Lovely shots. That's a couple of nice gap wedges that she's hit now. She hit a couple loose ones there. She was playing for that to possibly move to the right, and it just held up that line on that left edge. I think it was a good stroke. It was straighter than she thought it would be. 245 covers the bunkers on the left. That shouldn't be a problem for Gino. She took that down the center of the fairway. But this time last year, no one hit. To keep hitting it in tight. Lost that right. It's in between kind of the tongue of the bunker. She's really done a good job tipping her shoulders to mimic the slope of the land. Didn't hit any coins. Didn't look like. This is a putt the distance she probably was thinking she should be having for birdie, but just to say par. And that right there shows you why she's number two in the world. Do you know what? I wish you could have told me all this advice about 10 years ago. My life would have been very different. Yeah, you know it's so funny when, and I'm sure you'll feel the same way now that you're in TV and you're reflecting back and looking and watching these players like Mel Grotti like Mac. These players outside the top 100 with some big weeks. Gino second at 18. You know, even with her length, not able to get it there, but she's going to chase something down as close as you can. Modern players now just want to be as close as you can to have just a little flip wedge in. How about that? 36 hole run for Gino bogey free and the lead outright.