Ariya Jutanugarn said it, and she felt it, but she didn’t fully mean it.
“I’m done. I’m done. I want to stop playing.”
Jutanugarn said on Sunday in Thailand that those were her thoughts last year as she struggled through another winless season on the LPGA Tour, one which was discombobulated and one in which she barely contended.
But Sunday at the Honda LPGA Thailand, Jutanugarn, 25, was again a winner. For the first time in 1,015 days, she held a trophy, making it all the more special that she did so in her homeland, that same place where she blew a two-shot lead on the 72nd hole in 2013.