One of the major storylines during a memorable week at Royal Lytham and St Annes was further evidence of a Thai wave that has been steadily building this season although Pornanong Phatlum failed to win the Women's British Open title last Sunday.
Georgia Hall thrilled her home fans with a remarkably composed, two-shot victory over Pornanong.
The Thai had to settle for second place after her impressive title bid effectively ended with a double bogey at the 17th, where she drove into a bunker.
Like Hall, Pornanong had been seeking a breakthrough victory on the LPGA Tour but the 28-year-old from Chaiyaphum could hold her head high after leading a quartet of Thai players who finished in the top 22 at Lytham.
Also Thailand's Atthaya Thitikul earned the Smyth Salver award as the low amateur.
Had Pornanong triumphed last Sunday, she would have become the third Thai player to win an LPGA Tour event in just three weeks, and the second player from her country to win a major title this year.
Thidapa Suwannapura won the Marathon Classic before Ariya Jutanugarn triumphed at the Ladies Scottish Open just before the Women's British Open, having also landed the US Women's Open in June.
Moriya Jutanugarn has also been in the winner's circle this season, doing so at the LA Open in April.
The Jutanugarn sisters have set the tone, and players such as Pornanong and Thidapa have eagerly followed their lead.
"Moriya and Ariya, they have inspired all the Thai golfers, so we know we can do it," said Pornanong, a nine-time winner on the Ladies Asian Golf Tour. "We can win tournaments."
Moriya watched the final holes of the Women's British Open on television with her sister Ariya, the world No.1, in the players' dining area and she paid tribute to the composed on-course demeanour shown by Pornanong throughout the week at Lytham.
"She is one of the good players on the LPGA Tour and she is always very calm," Moriya told www.lpga.com as she munched on the classic English dish of fish and chips.
"I think she did a pretty good job of handling all the pressure this week. "
Asked what she thought of being an inspirational figure for Thai players, along with her sister Ariya, Moriya replied: "On this tour, everybody has a chance every week and for us I feel really honoured when people say that they look up to us, they look to us to be a role model. I am pretty sure that it's going to be Pornanong's time one day and she has been working hard. She has got a lot of confidence from the past and she also has a lot of experience, so I think she will do really well."
World No.4 Ryu So-Yeon, who finished in third place at Lytham, knows all about the value of role models after benefiting from the likes of Pak Se-Ri and Shin Ji-Yai in her native Korea.
"Golf in Thailand could be really similar to what Se-Ri did for Korea, and the Jutanugarn sisters have really been inspiring all the Thai players," Ryu told lpga.com.
"But I have heard that the private sector has a really great golf programme to help out all the junior golfers and professional golfers in Thailand so this is proof of how important is to have the support from your home country.
"That's one of the reasons why Korean golf is really dominating on the LPGA Tour because Se-Ri was not the only role model for us. After her, we had other great role models like Shin Ji-Yai, Choi Na-Yeon, Pak In-Bee and now you see Pak Sung-Hyun playing really well since she shifted from the KLPGA to the LPGA. So it's definitely very fortunate when you have a lot of great role models, and hopefully we can have more junior golfers coming through."
The biggest influence in Thailand has been the 22-year-old Ariya, who is back for her second stint as the world No.1 player and has already triumphed 10 times on the LPGA Tour, including two major championships -- the 2016 Women's British Open and this year's US Women's Open.
"When the LPGA started going to Thailand over a decade ago, you didn't really see women playing golf -- and certainly not at a high professional level," said LPGA commissioner Mike Whan.
"And probably 70 percent of our fans at our tournament in Thailand were men. You jump forward to today, not only do you see a lot of women playing golf but you have around 220 players on the LPGA Tour and I think Thailand was the No.2 country represented at last year's Q-School.
"So not only are there players who have made it to the top of the mountain but the pipeline coming behind them is pretty deep. And if you went to our event in Thailand, you'd probably see 50-50, if not 60-40, women to men. And what's really cool is the number of girls under the age of 15 you'd see around those tee boxes watching the Jutanugarn sisters, and any other number of Thai players teeing off there.
"I remember watching the Jutanugarns when Ariya was probably 12 or 13 in Thailand and she was an interesting media story but there wasn't a huge gallery out there following her. Today, you can't get anywhere near her tee box when she's teeing off -- there are so many young girls watching her tee off. You can talk about the rise of Thai golfers over the last 10 years and that's been amazing. What's probably more amazing is what the next 10 years is going to look like." lpga.com