Fourteen-year-old amateur Atthaya Thitikul has become the youngest winner of a professional golf tour event with her first place at the Ladies European Thailand Championship. She bettered the record set by Canadian Brooke Henderson who won at 14 years 9 months; and previously the NZ/South Korean Lydia Ko who triumphed over adult competitors when she was just 15 years old.
Atthaya Thitikul, 20 Feb 2003, is a Sun Pisces conjunct Uranus; with a ferociously determined Mars Pluto in Sagittarius opposition Saturn.
Brooke Henderson, 10 September 1997, is a Sun Virgo on one leg of a Yod in sextile to Mars in Scorpio inconjunct Saturn in Aries; with Mercury square Pluto – so a very challenging and stressed chart.
Lydia Ko, 24 April 1997, also has a chart riddled with quincunxes. She’s a Sun, Mercury, Venus in Taurus with her Sun Mercury inconjunct Pluto; and a Yod of Saturn in Aries sextile Jupiter inconjunct Mars in Virgo.
Yods do set the individual apart from their environment, making them feel they don’t fit in; until they find their direction and then they become very single-focussed. The Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps has a Yod of Jupiter sextile Uranus inconjunct Mars in Cancer and he was ADHD until he found swimming and he never looked back.
But it does just go to show that even the most challenging of charts can be put to good use.