University of North Carolina Athletics
2025-26 Women's Golf Roster
Thanchanok (Ing) Iadpluem
- Height:
- 5-5
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Surat Thani, Thailand
- High School:
- St. Peters' Golf Academy (Cambridge, New Zealand)
Best Finish: 2, 2024-25 Yale Invitational West; T2 2024-25 Chattanooga Classic
Low Round: 65, 2nd round, 2024-25 Cavalier Regional Preview
Low Round to Par: -6, 2nd round, 2024-25 Cavalier Regional Preview
Low 54 Holes (strokes): 205, 2024-25 Yale Invitational West
Low 54 Holes (to par): -11, 2024-25 Yale Invitational West
Career: Has the fourth-best scoring average (73.38) by a Tar Heel • Set several all-time UNC records in the 2026 NCAA Championship at Omni La Costa in Carlsbad, Calif. • Played 91 rounds over 31 tournaments • Shot par or better 38 times with 13 rounds in the 60s • Career-low 6-under 65 in the second round of the Cavalier Regional Preview as a sophomore, which Carolina won and set the school scoring record for fewest strokes • Has five top-five finishes, including three in a row as a sophomore • Runner-up in consecutive starts that season in the Yale Invitational West (which UNC won) and the Chattanooga Classic.
2025-26: Averaged 72.48 in 33 rounds • Shot below par in seven of the 10 post-season rounds (ACC Championship, NCAA Chapel Hill Regional and NCAA Championship) and posted three of her five rounds in the 60s in those three events • Shot 77-71-71-71 for 2-over 290 to lead UNC and tie for 30th in the NCAA Championship • Became the first Tar Heel ever to shoot three rounds under par in one NCAA Championship • Both 290 and 2-over par are all-time bests by a Tar Heel in NCAA Championship play • Shot 69 in the final round to tie for 21st in the ACC Championship at 2-under 214 • Shot 69-69 over the first 36 holes in the NCAA Chapel Hill Regional, becoming the first Tar Heel to shoot consecutive rounds in the 60s in an NCAA regional since Meaghan Francella in 2004 • Best finish was a tie for ninth in the Florida Gators Invitational • Second on the team with 104 birdies.
2024-25: Second on the team in scoring average (72.60 in 30 rounds), the fourth-lowest in UNC single-season history • Started all 10 tournaments and had Carolina’s best finish four times, the most on the team • Shot par or better 15 times (which tied for the team lead) with five rounds in the 60s • Career-best 65 in Charlottesville, which equaled the second-lowest round in UNC history • Averaged 0.90 strokes above par • Finished second twice (Yale West and Chattanooga), fourth at Moon Golf and fifth in Charlottesville • Shot 71-65-75 for 2-under 211 at Virginia, 73-71-69 for 3-under 213 at Moon Golf, 67-67-71 for 11-under 211 at Yale West and 70-76-73 for 3-over 219 at Chattanooga • Carded a 69 in the first round of the ACC Championship • No. 59 in the final NCAA rankings • Academic All-ACC honoree and member of the ACC Honor Roll.
2023-24: Averaged 75.29 in 28 rounds over 10 tournaments • Started in two of UNC’s team titles in the St Andrews Links Collegiate and UCF Challenge • Shot a pair of 68s at St Andrews in Scotland and another 68 in the final round of the Gators Invitational in Gainesville, Fla. • Tied for fourth in stroke play at 4-over 148, which included a second-round 68 at the Jubilee Course • That 68 included seven birdies and set the course record • Won her medal match against Vanderbilt’s Charlene Chung with a 4-under 68 on The Old Course, the lowest round of the day among the four teams in the St Andrews Links Collegiate • Went 4-1 in match play • Shot 72-70-73 for a 1-under 215 as UNC won the UCF Challenge • Shot even par in the first round of the ACC Championship • Started in the NCAA regional and NCAA Championship • Earned Academic All-ACC honors and was a member of the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
Amateur/Prep: Played for Coach Simon Thomas at St. Peter’s Cambridge School in Cambridge, New Zealand • Won the 2018 Optimist International Junior Championship in Palm Beach, Fla. • Best rounds were 6 under at the 2017 Optimist International Junior Championship at PGA West in Palm Beach, Fla., and the 2019 New Zealand U-19 Championship at Millbrook Golf Course in Arrowtown, New Zealand • Twice finished fourth in the U19 New Zealand Nationals and was fourth in the 2022 Cambridge Classic • Eighth in the U-19 Nationals in 2022 and is a two-time Kaimai Girls champion • In 2017 she finished fourth in the IMG Academy Junior World Championship.
Personal: Born August 24, 2004, in Surat Thani, Thailand • Daughter of Sittichai Iadpluem (father) and Twanhathai Ketkaeo (mother) • Her father played soccer at Kasetsart University in Thailand and mother played inter-provincial basketball • Favorite course is The Old Course in St Andrews • Favorite golfer is Nelly Korda • Go-to club under pressure is her driver • Would like to play a round with Korda, Tiger Woods and Lydia Ko.
