Patty Tavatanakit

Paphangkorn "Patty" Tavatanakit is a Thai professional golfer born on October 11, 1999, in Bangkok, Thailand. She competes on the LPGA Tour. Her headline achievement came in April 2021 when she won the ANA Inspiration, one of the five women's major championships, finishing two strokes clear of Lydia Ko at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California.

Tavatanakit developed her game at Keerapat International School in Bangkok before moving to the United States to play collegiate golf at UCLA. With the Bruins from 2017 to 2019, she won seven tournaments and earned back-to-back WGCA First Team All-American honours, as well as the WGCA Freshman of the Year award in her first season. She also recorded low-amateur honours at the 2018 U.S. Women's Open. After turning professional, she won three events on the Symetra Tour and was named that tour's Rookie of the Year. Her breakout 2021 LPGA season brought the major title and the Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year award. In February 2024 she won in back-to-back weeks, claiming the Aramco Saudi Ladies International on the Ladies European Tour and then the Honda LPGA Thailand on home soil.

Tavatanakit is known for generating exceptional power through an unusually wide swing arc. She keeps her trail arm extended through the backswing to create a fuller shoulder turn, producing a combination of distance and consistency that few players in the women's game can match. In 2026 that form carried her to the final round of the Chevron Championship at Memorial Park Golf Course in Houston, where she shared runner-up honours with Ruoning Yin behind Nelly Korda.

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