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Gunn Charoenkul
Gunn Charoenkul
Personal information
Born	10 April 1992 (age 32); Bangkok, Thailand
Height	181 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	83 kg (183 lb)
Sporting nationality	Thailand
Career
Turned professional	2011
Current tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour; Asian Tour; All Thailand Golf Tour
Former tour(s)	China Tour; ASEAN PGA Tour
Professional wins	12
Best results in major championships;
Masters Tournament	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP
U.S. Open	CUT: 2023
The Open Championship	CUT: 2019
Achievements and awards
ASEAN PGA Tour; Order of Merit winner
ASEAN PGA Tour; Order of Merit winner	2014, 2016

Gunn Charoenkul (Thai: กัญจน์ เจริญกุล; 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 (12)

China Tour wins (3)

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	Zhang Xinjun
2	11 Sep 2016	Chongqing Jiangnan NewTown KingRun Open	−21 (65-68-68-66=267)	6 strokes	Shun Yat Hak
3	17 Sep 2017	Beijing Classic	−16 (67-72-64-69=272)	1 stroke	Deyen Lawson

All Thailand Golf Tour wins (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	19 Aug 2012	Singha E-San Open¹	−14 (64-67-70-73=274)	Playoff	Nicholas Fung
2	23 Mar 2014	Singha E-San Open¹ (2)	−14 (68-71-69-66=274)	2 strokes	Grant Jackson, Teerawat Poipong
3	20 Jul 2014	Singha Panasonic Hua Hin Open¹	−15 (69-66-70-68=273)	1 stroke	Chapchai Nirat
4	31 Jul 2022	Singha Championship	−10 (68-70-64-68=270)	1 stroke	Denwit Boriboonsub

¹Co-sanctioned by the ASEAN PGA Tour

ASEAN PGA Tour wins (5)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	19 Aug 2012	Singha E-San Open¹	−14 (64-67-70-73=274)	Playoff	Nicholas Fung
2	23 Mar 2014	Singha E-San Open¹ (2)	−14 (68-71-69-66=274)	2 strokes	Grant Jackson, Teerawat Poipong
3	31 May 2014	Melaka Championship²	−7 (67-74-70-70=281)	3 strokes	Iylia Jamil
4	20 Jul 2014	Singha Panasonic Hua Hin Open¹	−15 (69-66-70-68=273)	1 stroke	Chapchai Nirat
5	23 Jul 2016	Jimei Korea Kulim Championship²	−20 (66-69-70-63=268)	4 strokes	Ben Leong, Poom Saksansin

¹Co-sanctioned by the All Thailand Golf Tour
²Co-sanctioned by the Professional Golf of Malaysia Tour

Philippine Golf Tour wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	13 May 2017	ICTSI Orchard Championship	−7 (75-68-67-71=281)	1 stroke	Clyde Mondilla

Thailand PGA Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	19 Jul 2020	Singha-SAT Hua Hin Championship	−19 (68-62-64=194)	6 strokes	Prom Meesawat
2	2 Aug 2020	Singha-SAT Nakhon Nayok Classic	−12 (67-64-70=201)	Playoff	Nirun Sae-ueng