Gunn Charoenkul

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Gunn Charoenkul
Personal information
Born (1992-04-10) 10 April 1992 (age 29)
Bangkok, Thailand
Height181 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight83 kg (183 lb)
Sporting nationality Thailand
Career
Turned professional2011
Current tour(s)Asian Tour (joined 2012)
Japan Golf Tour (joined 2018)
Former tour(s)PGA Tour China
All Thailand Golf Tour
Professional wins9
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentDNP
PGA ChampionshipDNP
U.S. OpenDNP
The Open ChampionshipCUT: 2019

Gunn Charoenkul (born 10 April 1992) is a Thai professional golfer who plays on both the Asian Tour and Japan Golf Tour.[1]

Professional career[]

Gunn was born in Bangkok, Thailand and turned professional in 2011. He won three tournaments on the All Thailand Golf Tour and played on the Asian Tour 2012–2014, where his best finish was T6 at the 2013 Solaire Open at the Wack Wack Golf and Country Club in the Philippines.[2]

He played on the PGA Tour China 2015–2016, where he won two tournaments, the 2014 Yunnan Open and the 2016 Chongqing Jiangnan NewTown KingRun Open.[3]

Back on the Asian Tour, he was runner-up at the 2016 Queen's Cup in his native Thailand and the 2019 BNI Indonesian Masters, and third at the 2020 Hong Kong Open behind Wade Ormsby and Shane Lowry.[4]

In 2018, he joined the Japan Golf Tour, where he posted 10 top-10s in 2019.[5] He qualified for the 2019 Open Championship by finishing T3 at the Mizuno Open, but missed the cut.

In early 2020, he reached a career high of 126th on the Official World Golf Ranking, and in 2021 he qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo together with Jazz Janewattananond.[6]

Professional wins (9)[]

PGA Tour China wins (2)[]

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 10 Aug 2014 Yulongwan Yunnan Open −21 (61-70-66-66=263) 3 strokes China Zhang Xinjun
2 11 Sep 2016 −21 (65-68-68-66=267) 6 strokes Hong Kong

All Thailand Golf Tour wins (3)[]

  • 2012 (1) Singha E-San Open
  • 2014 (2) Singha E-San Open, Singha Panasonic Hua Hin Open

Thailand PGA Tour wins (2)[]

  • 2020 (2) Singha-SAT Hua Hin Championship, Singha-SAT Nakhon Nayok Classic.

Source:[4]

Other wins (2)[]

  • 2014 PGA Melaka Championship
  • 2016 Jimei Korea Kulim Championship

Source:[1]

Results in major championships[]

Tournament 2019
Masters Tournament
PGA Championship
U.S. Open
The Open Championship CUT
  Did not play

CUT = missed the halfway cut

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Gunn Charoenkul Bio". PGA Tour China. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Lin is the last action hero at the Solaire Open". 14 April 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
  3. ^ "Strong finish leaves Hak in three-way tie for second in Chongqing". The Standard. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Gunn Charoenkul". Asian Tour. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Gunn Charoenkul Career Record". Japan Golf Tour. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Gunn relishing Olympic opportunity". Asian Tour. Retrieved 30 July 2021.

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