DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Even after a record 10 golfers from Thailand advanced into the recent LPGA final qualifying tournament, their coach back home attempted to cushion their expectations.

Virada Nirapathpongporn, a former LPGA Tour member and NCAA champion, suggested that all of the young professionals have backup plans for next year should they not earn LPGA status.

But that caution fell on deaf ears. By the conclusion of the 90-hole tournament, eight Thai players had earned LPGA membership.

“We worked four years for these five days,” said Benyapa Niphatsophon, 18, who played three extra holes in a three-way playoff for one of the last two full-season LPGA cards.

Budsabakorn Sukapan, 18, a two-time Asian tour winner, tied for second at the LPGA Q-School at 11-under-par 349 for five rounds.

“I have improved my game, so it’s time to do something bigger,” she said.

That larger aspiration merged into the current fabric of diversity in women’s professional golf.

When the 2016 season begins, the young Thai pros will join a long list of Asian players who have made a significant impact on women’s golf. Jackie Pung, a native Hawaiian, was a five-time LPGA winner from 1953 to 1958. Hall of Famer Chako Higuchi became the first Japanese player to win an LPGA major with her victory at the 1977 LPGA Championship. Other top Japanese players followed, including Ayako Okamoto and Ai Miyazato.

Se Ri Pak changed the women’s game forever with four wins, including two major championships, in 1998 that inspired a generation of South Korean women like Inbee Park, a seven-time major winner.

In recent years, top players from Taiwan (Yani Tseng) and China (Shanshan Feng) emerged as leading women professionals.

Buoyed by the performance of male pro golfers Thongchai Jaidee and Kiradech Aphibarnrat, ranked No. 29 and 37, Thailand has begun producing more golfers who could contend on the professional tours.

Six Thai players held LPGA membership in 2015, with Pornanong Phatlum (ranked No. 43) and Ariya Jutanugarn (63) cracking the top 100. Sherman Santiwiwatthanaphong won on the Symetra Tour this year, and Thai players finished second and fourth in the Ladies European Tour’s recent Omega Dubai Ladies Masters.

Thailand led all of Asia in numbers at this year’s final LPGA Q-School, tying Canada at 10, for the highest number of international contestants in the event.

But Nirapathpongporn, the 2002 NCAA champion at Duke and the 2003 U.S. Women’s Amateur champion, was not sure what to expect at this year’s tournament. Based in Bangkok, she serves as coach in the Thailand Ladies Golf Association and has worked with several of the Thai players who competed at the Q-School.

“I am pleasantly surprised that the girls were so successful this year at Q-School,” Nirapathpongporn said in an email. “They just seem to be so single-minded in this mission, which worked out.”

Joining Sukapan and Niphatsophon with full tour status were Nontaya Srisawang, 27, and Pannarat Thanapolboonyaras, 17.