In this biography
Quick facts
- Born
- 20 November 1992
- Birthplace
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Country
- Thailand
- Nationality
- Thai
- Known for
- Returning from back surgery to win the 2018 Marathon Classic, the inaugural 2019 Dow team event and the 2024 Walmart NW Arkansas Championship
- Also known as
- Thidapa “Jasmine” Suwannapura
- Sport
- Golf
- LPGA Tour wins
- 3, as of 3 October 2026
- First LPGA win
- 2018 Marathon Classic
- Best major finish
- Runner-up, 2020 AIG Women’s Open
- Career earnings
- About $4.6 million on the LPGA Tour, as of 3 October 2026
Why this life matters
Jasmine transformed a career-threatening 2016 injury into a three-win LPGA career, with victories in individual, team and playoff formats between 2018 and 2024.
Timeline
Key moments
Born in Bangkok
Born on 20 November in Thailand’s capital.
Entered the Honda LPGA Thailand as an amateur
Qualified for the home LPGA event at thirteen and returned as an amateur in 2008 and 2010.
Turned professional
Moved from a successful junior career into the professional game.
Won on the developmental tour
Captured the Vidalia Championship and finished fourth on the Symetra Tour money list to earn LPGA membership.
Won the Hero Women’s Indian Open
Added a Ladies European Tour title while establishing herself on the LPGA circuit.
Suffered a serious back injury
Broke her back during a practice swing at the Kingsmill Championship and spent six months away after surgery and rehabilitation.
Completed the comeback with a first LPGA win
Shot a closing 65 and defeated Brittany Lincicome with a birdie on the first extra hole at the Marathon Classic.
Won the inaugural Dow team event
Partnered Cydney Clanton to a six-stroke victory in the LPGA Tour’s new official team tournament.
Finished second at the AIG Women’s Open
Recorded the best major-championship finish of her career at Royal Troon.
Won a third LPGA title in Arkansas
Closed with a 61 and beat Lucy Li with an eagle on the second playoff hole at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship.
A Bangkok golfer known by two names
Jasmine Suwannapura was born in Bangkok on 20 November 1992. Earlier tournament records, including the results attached to her first two LPGA victories, identify her as Thidapa Suwannapura; the LPGA now lists her as Jasmine Suwannapura. The two names refer to the same golfer, and preserving that connection matters because much of the contemporary record of her early career remains indexed under Thidapa.
She started playing golf at five. Jasmine later told the LPGA that her father had been central to her game and that, after a coach she expected to work with died when she was sixteen, she largely learned to diagnose and repair her own swing. That feel-based education gave her an unusual degree of independence. Her path was not isolated from organised competition, however: she qualified for the Honda LPGA Thailand as an amateur in 2006, 2008 and 2010, placing her against international professionals while still a teenager.
Her junior results crossed several countries. The USGA’s player guide records victories at the 2008 Hong Kong Ladies Amateur, the 2009 Srixon Junior International in Australia and junior events in Malaysia and the Netherlands in 2010. She also studied at Ramkhamhaeng University. Together, those experiences joined a Thai base to the travel, changing courses and self-management that a professional career would require.
A developmental-tour route to the LPGA
Jasmine turned professional in 2011 rather than moving through the United States college system. In 2012 she won the Vidalia Championship on what was then the Symetra Tour and finished fourth on its official money list. That result earned LPGA membership for the following season. It was a structured route upward: a full year on the developmental circuit, a win and season-long ranking strong enough to secure promotion.
Her first sustained LPGA season came in 2013. The work was not confined to one tour. In November she won the Hero Women’s Indian Open by three strokes for a Ladies European Tour title. The combination showed how players outside the largest golf markets often build careers across overlapping circuits rather than through a single straight line. Jasmine was learning LPGA courses in the United States while continuing to compete and win in Asia.
The early years established her as a touring professional but did not produce an immediate LPGA breakthrough. She made cuts, retained access and accumulated experience without the attention attached to a major title or a high world ranking. That slower development became important when her career was interrupted by an injury more serious than an ordinary loss of form.
The practice swing that threatened her career
During the 2016 Kingsmill Championship, Jasmine felt her back fail while taking a practice swing. LPGA reporting later described the injury as a broken back. Surgery and rehabilitation kept her away for six months, and she had to rebuild a swing around what her body could safely do. At the time, the question was not simply whether she could win on tour; she did not know whether she would walk normally or play competitive golf again.
The injury changed the terms of her career. A golfer who had relied heavily on feel could not simply reproduce the movement she had used before surgery. Recovery required patience, physical work and technical adjustment, followed by the separate challenge of trusting the reconstructed motion under tournament pressure. When she later wrote about the experience for the LPGA, she framed it through persistence rather than inevitability: the outcome was earned through continuing when a return was uncertain.
By 2018 she was again able to compete through full schedules. The comeback should not be read backward from the victories that followed. Rehabilitation did not guarantee a title; it restored the possibility of pursuing one. Converting that possibility required winning a playoff against a multiple major champion.
A closing 65 and the first LPGA victory
At the Marathon Classic in July 2018, Jasmine entered the final day behind the lead and shot a six-under-par 65. The round carried her into a playoff with Brittany Lincicome. On the first extra hole, Jasmine made birdie to secure her first LPGA title. The win came five years after her first full season and roughly two years after the back injury that had placed the continuation of her career in doubt.
The victory also widened Thailand’s LPGA story. Ariya Jutanugarn had become the country’s first tour winner in 2016 and Moriya Jutanugarn won earlier in 2018. Jasmine now joined them as another Thai champion whose route was distinct: neither a major-winning surge nor a celebrated sister partnership, but a long tour apprenticeship followed by injury, reconstruction and a playoff breakthrough.
Her ranking rose sharply after the title, yet the most durable consequence was membership and confidence. She had proved that her rebuilt swing could withstand a Sunday charge and sudden death. That experience became part of the foundation for a second victory in a format the LPGA had not previously staged as an official event.
A team title and a major runner-up finish
In July 2019 Jasmine partnered Cydney Clanton in the inaugural Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational. The event alternated between foursomes and four-ball, turning communication, role definition and complementary scoring into competitive requirements. They closed with a better-ball 59 and finished twenty-seven under par, six strokes ahead. The result gave both players a two-year membership extension and made Jasmine a two-time LPGA winner.
The partnership mattered because it demonstrated a different kind of adaptability. Her first win had required an individual closing charge and playoff; the second required four rounds of shared decisions. Clanton and Jasmine returned as defending champions when the event was next played, evidence that the pairing was more than a convenient entry in a new tournament.
Jasmine produced her best major finish at the 2020 AIG Women’s Open at Royal Troon. In severe links conditions, she finished alone in second behind Sophia Popov. The runner-up result did not add to her win total, but it placed her recovery and tour victories in a deeper competitive context. She had moved from uncertainty about walking after surgery to contending through four rounds at one of women’s golf’s five majors.
A third title won with 61 and playoff eagle
Five years passed between Jasmine’s second and third LPGA victories. At the 2024 Walmart NW Arkansas Championship, she opened with 63, followed with 72 and began the final day outside the leading group. Her closing 61 contained the scoring needed to catch Lucy Li, who shot 60. Jasmine made eagle on the regulation eighteenth hole to force a playoff at seventeen under par, then won by making another eagle on the second extra hole.
The 61 tied the second-lowest final round by a winner in LPGA history at the time. More importantly for the shape of her career, the playoff joined two distant breakthroughs: the birdie that secured her first title in 2018 and the eagle that delivered her third in 2024. Both required immediate execution after seventy-two or fifty-four holes had failed to separate the leaders.
As of 3 October 2026, the LPGA listed Jasmine with three career victories, seventeen top-ten finishes, fifty-eight top-25 finishes and about $4.6 million in official career earnings. She also represented Thailand at the 2025 International Crown and remained active on tour in 2026. Her importance to Thai golf lies in that duration as much as any single result. Jasmine’s career connects the country’s early LPGA expansion to a later generation of major champions and world No. 1 players, while showing that international sporting impact can also be built through recovery, partnership and the ability to win again after a long interval.
Quick answers
Frequently asked questions about Jasmine Suwannapura
- Who is Jasmine Suwannapura?
- Jasmine Suwannapura is a three-time LPGA Tour winner. Jasmine transformed a career-threatening 2016 injury into a three-win LPGA career, with victories in individual, team and playoff formats between 2018 and 2024.
- What is Jasmine Suwannapura best known for?
- Jasmine Suwannapura is best known for returning from back surgery to win the 2018 Marathon Classic, the inaugural 2019 Dow team event and the 2024 Walmart NW Arkansas Championship.
- When and where was Jasmine Suwannapura born?
- Jasmine Suwannapura was born on 20 November 1992 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Sources and further reading
How this biography was checked
Core dates and offices are checked against the sources below. This profile was last reviewed on 3 October 2026.
- LPGAJasmine Suwannapura career overview
- LPGAJasmine Suwannapura 2026 results
- United States Golf Association2019 U.S. Women’s Open player guide
- LPGAIn the Winner’s Circle — 2018 Marathon Classic
- LPGAJasmine Suwannapura: Fighters Keep Fighting
- LPGAClanton and Suwannapura win the inaugural Dow team event
- United States Golf Association2021 U.S. Women’s Open player profile
- LPGASuwannapura wins the 2024 Walmart NW Arkansas Championship
- LPGAFinal-round notes — 2024 Walmart NW Arkansas Championship
- LPGA2025 International Crown teams
- Wikimedia CommonsJasmine Suwannapura photograph and CC BY-SA 3.0 licence
