Patty Tavatanakit

Paphangkorn Tavatanakit started playing golf in 2008 at age eight after watching Tiger Woods on television. She attended Keerapat International School in Bangkok despite not having a golf team.
In 2014, captured the title at the Callaway Junior World Golf Championship, breaking the tournament's 54-hole record. She also won the 2015 Los Angeles Junior Open and was the runner-up at the 2015 IMG Junior World Golf Championships. She was named the 2015-16 Thailand Amateur Ladies Golf Association Player of the Year and the Thailand Junior Golf Federation Player of the Year in 2014 and 2015.
Tavatanakit was named the AJGA Rolex Junior Player of the Year and the Rolex Junior First Team All-American in 2016. She also captured titles at the 2016 Rolex Tournament of Champions and the 2016 Ping Invitational and reached the round of 16 at the 2016 U.S. Girls' Junior Championship and the 2016 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship.
In the summer before her freshman season, Tavatanakit competed in three of the LPGA's five majors (ANA Inspiration, U.S. Women's Open, Evian Championship). She reached the Round of 16 at the 2017 U.S. Girls' Junior Championship, won all three of her team and individual matches at the 2017 Wyndham Cup, and finished third at the 2017 Rolex Girls Junior Championship.
She made an impact as a member of the UCLA women's golf team, capturing four individual wins and helping to lead the team to a Pac-12 conference title. She defeated her junior teammate, Lilia Vu, in a playoff to take home an individual Pac-12 title. Tavatanakit is the sixth Bruin in program history to earn an individual conference title. She was named to the Pac-12 All-Conference First Team. She also captured a win at the NCAA San Francisco Regional to help the Bruins advance to the NCAA Championships.
2018 Notes: As a freshman at UCLA, she won four times and was a first-team All-American. She was the national Freshman of the Year and the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year. She won the Pac-12 Championship, the NCAA San Francisco Regional, and was a co-medalist at the Stanford Intercollegiate and the Silverado Showdown. She was a member of the International Palmer Cup team. Played in the U.S. Women's Open and finished T-5th. She shot a final round 71 and held onto low amateur honors. She played in the LPGA Q Series as an amateur but finished T-84th and did not get her card. She said later that her heart wasn't in it as she didn't want to turn pro and leave school.
2019 Notes: She was a sophomore at UCLA and won the Annika Intercollegiate in the fall of 2018 for her fifth collegiate victory. She decided to play in the ANA Inspiration instead of at Augusta and finished T-26th. She played in the NCAA Golf Championship and was T-43rd.
She played two years of college golf for UCLA and was a two-time first-team All-American. She turned pro after her sophomore year in college in June 2019. Her first start as a professional, she was T-34th at the U.S. Women's Open. She got one more start for the year and finished T-15th at the Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic, including a final round 61. Even though it was half over, she decided to play full-time on the Symetra Tour. She could play in 11 events and won three times, finished runner-up once, and T-5th once. She finished 2nd on the money list with $111,518 in earnings and was the Rookie of the Year. With her high finish, she got her LPGA Tour card for 2020.
2020 Notes: Played in 14 LPGA Tour events, making 7 cuts with one top-ten finish. She was 92nd on the money list with $84,923 in earnings and was 91st on the CME points list. She got off to a slow start, missing the cut in her three events before COVID-19 shut the LPGA down. During the break, to stay competitive, she played in mini-tour events in Florida and on England's Best Golf Tour, came in 2nd at the Providence Golf Club, and won twice at the Eaglebrook Country Club and Debary Golf & Country Club. In her second event back from the break, she was T-9th at the Marathon Classic.
2021 Notes: Played in 19 LPGA Tour events, making 18 cuts with ten top-ten finishes. She was 4th on the CME Points list and 7th on the money list, earning $1,393,437. The season got off on a good foot as she finished T-5th at the Gainbridge LPGA. Patty went into the final run just a shot out of the lead but shot 74 to finish six shots back of the winner, Nelly Korda, who shot 69 in the final round. After missing the cut at the KIA Classic, she played at the ANA Inspiration the next week and found her game. She shot 66 in the first round and never looked back as she led wire-to-wire. She led by five shots going into the final round, and if not for Lydia Ko, who shot 62, it would have been a runaway. She beat Ko by two shots, and the four players in third place were seven shots back. On the Asian Tour, she was T-3rd at both the HSBC Women's Champions and Honda LPGA Thailand. In the one in Thailand, Patty shot 64-64 to start and led each of the first three days. But Ariya Jutanugarn ruined Patty's homecoming by shooting 63 in the final round and was two better than Tavatanakit. In the Bank of Hope LPGA Match-Play, she lost in the quarterfinals to Sophia Popov, 3 and 2. She was T-5th at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship and finished 11 back of Nelly Korda. She was T-23rd at the Tokyo Olympics as a member of Thailand's women's golf team. At the AIG Women's Open, it was T-7th, and T-5th at the Cambia Portland Open. Finished the season 6th at the Shoprite Classic, T-6th at the Pelican Women's Championship, and T-35th at the CME Group Tour Championship. Was the LPGA Louise Suggs Rookie of the Year and won the Rolex Annika Major Award with the best overall record in the majors in 2021.
2022 Notes: Played in 21 LPGA Tour events, making 12 cuts with two top-ten finishes. She was 60th on the money list with $429,664 in earnings and was 61st in CME points. Shot a final round 67 to finish T-4th at the LPGA Drive on Championship, Crown Colony. In defense of her Chevron Championship title, she finished T-4th, four shots back of the winner Jennifer Kupcho. She was T-3rd in the Aramco Team Series-Bangkok on the LET Tour in her home country of Thailand. She ended her season with a CME Group Tour Championship,
2023 Notes: Played in 23 LPGA Tour events, making 18 cuts with two top-ten finishes. She was 57th on the money list with $497,303 in earnings and was 54th in CME points. She finished T-3rd at the DIO Implant LA Open, three shots back of the winner, Ruoning Yin. She helped Thailand win the Hanwha Lifeplus International Crown, going 4-1 in the matches, including a 4-and-3 win over Hannah Green of Australia in the finals. She finished T-6th at the Freed Group Women's Scottish Open, five shots back of the winner Celine Boutier. She ended her year by finishing T-27th at the CME Group Tour Championship.
2024 Notes: Played in 18 LPGA Tour events, making 15 cuts with four top-ten finishes. She was 21st on the money list with $1,231,694 in earnings and was 20th in CME points. Won the Aramco Saudi Ladies on the LET by seven shots over Esther Heneleit, Tavatanakit shot a final round 65. She won a week later at the Honda LPGA Thailand, beating Albane Valenzuela by a shot to claim a title in her home country. Was T-8th at the HSBC Women's Champions and T-7th at the Mizuho Americas Open. Shot a final round 63 to finish 3rd at the Amundi Evian Championship, two shots back of the winner Ayaka Furue. She played at the Paris Olympics as a member of Thailand's women's golf team, finishing T-29th. She ended her season finishing 60th at the CME Group Tour Championship.
2025 Notes: She shot 65-65 on the weekend to finish T-4th at the Honda LPGA Thailand.