Patty Tavatanakit had a great start to the 2024 season winning two titles in the first two months of the year.
The Thai star won the Aramco Saudi Ladies International presented by PIF in Riyadh and followed that with victory at the Honda LPGA Thailand one week later.
Her triumph in Saudi Arabia ended a near three-year period with no titles and Tavatanakit believes she learned a lot from those wins.
“It’s been a good year so far,” she said. “I feel like my game is heading in the right direction. The first two wins to start the season boosted my confidence a lot.
“People say when you win you don’t really learn from it, but I did learn a lot from it. I learnt what worked and what I was working on leading up to that too.
“That’s my template so I have a good sense of what’s good for me, what’s not good for me and what works me for what doesn’t work for me. I’m just moving forward. It’s just making things a little bit simpler.”
This week sees the Aramco Team Series presented by PIF – London taking place at Centurion Club from July 3-5 where two competitions will be played simultaneously.
The Team competition will be played over 36-holes over the first two days with the best two scores counting, while the Individual is a 54-hole stroke play competition with the last round just having the top-60 professionals and ties competing.
It will be Tavatanakit’s second appearance in the format, having made her debut in 2022 when an event was held in Bangkok.
The 24-year-old has good memories of playing in that event as an introduction to playing on the Ladies European Tour (LET).
She continued: “That was one of my very first times playing in an LET team event without a co-sanctioned event. That was a good way to start my time playing LET because it’s a team format.
“You get to meet people and you’re kind of like forced into a situation where you can be friends with them. It was a very memorable experience. Overall, it was just a fun event. To have a three-day event you can just kind of relax and just play with freedom.”
Team Tavatanakit will consist of the Thai star alongside England’s Gemma Clews, Korea’s Jo-Eun Kim and amateur Nellie Ong with the quartet teeing it up at 1.03 pm (local time).
Centurion Club is playing host to the Aramco Team Series – London for the fourth year in a row, but it is the LET winner’s first time here and she is looking forward to the English weather.
She added: “I just walked off the course and I feel like this will be a fun course for the format as well. I think we have six par-fives. I just want to have fun and enjoy being in the UK.
“I like this weather even though a lot of people don’t like it but just not being too hot gets me going well and keeps my mood a little bit calmer. I just want to have fun and looking forward to meeting new people as well.”
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