Nineteen-year-old Atthaya Thitikul has won the 2022 Louise Suggs Rookie of the Year award after winning LPGA Tour titles and rising to world No 1 in her first year as a professional golfer.

Two things: first, many thanks to the estimable vegetable Eric Bahrt, The Nation’s conscience and arbiter of sober good taste, for his warm words of understanding on Saturday. It’s always comforting to know that there are people out there who, like me, offer calm, balanced and conciliatory gestures.