Shenzhen: Jazz Janewattananond has reached many momentous milestones during his illustrious career and ahead of this week's US$1.5 million Volvo China Open at Hidden Grace Golf Club, he enthusiastically revealed the next one: marriage.
The Thai star will tie the knot with girlfriend and fellow professional golfer Sarina Schmidt this month in Thailand, completing a romance which on occasion has seen her caddie for him -- most noticeably when he won last year's International Series Morocco.
"The big day is on November 22nd!" said the 27-year-old. "It's good, it's the next chapter of my life. I have been growing up, finding myself on the golf course and now I am trying to grow up off the golf course, which is good, everyone has to grow up sometimes."
The exciting news is just the lift the 27-year-old needs after a torrid second half to the season which has seen him miss 12 successive cuts, the majority of which came on the DP World Tour.
It meant he lost his playing rights on the DP World Tour but as he now turns his attention to playing full-time on the Asian Tour it is with renewed hope and optimism, especially after opting to ditch a swing change.
Jazz is a seven-time winner on the Asian Tour -- the first of which came at the Bangladesh Open in 2017 -- and he also won the Order of Merit in 2019, the year he roared to victory on four occasions.
And after winning in Morocco last November, which was his first success on the Asian Tour in three years, his game appeared to be back on track.
The good form continued this year until his struggles with his swing really became serious in May.
"I struggled a little bit in the middle of the year, but I'm on the right track. I am just try to get my good game back and to try to move it into the final rounds," he said.
Three out of his seven wins on the Asian Tour have been national Opens. He also won the Singapore and Korea Opens in 2019, so he will have his eye on another when he tees off today.
"I am looking forward to it. I was here in 2019 at the same golf course. I had a good result so I would like to ignite some good memories and play some good golf," Jazz said.
The China Open returns as part of the International Series and features a stellar line-up that includes American Andy Ogletree, who leads both the Asian Tour and International Series Order of Merits, Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell, and Asian Games champion Taichi Kho from Hong Kong.