In this biography
Quick facts
- Born
- 16 April 2004
- Birthplace
- Chiang Mai, Thailand
- Country
- Thailand
- Nationality
- Thai
- Known for
- Winning the 2023 Portland Classic as a Monday qualifier and the 2024 Dana Open
- Pronunciation
- Chuh-net-tee Wanna-say-on
- Nickname
- Proud
- Sport
- Golf
- Turned professional
- 2021
- LPGA rookie season
- 2023
- LPGA Tour wins
- 2, as of 3 October 2026
- Best major finish
- Tied 2nd, 2025 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship
- Career earnings
- About $3.5 million on the LPGA Tour, as of 3 October 2026
Why this life matters
Chanettee became only the third Monday qualifier to win an LPGA event and backed the breakthrough with a second title and a 2025 KPMG Women’s PGA runner-up finish.
Timeline
Key moments
Born in Chiang Mai
Born on 16 April in northern Thailand.
Won the Thailand Amateur Match Play
Captured a national amateur title before beginning her professional career.
Turned professional
Entered professional golf at seventeen and began building status across Thai and international tours.
Won on Thai and European developmental circuits
Claimed two Thai LPGA titles and the LET Access Series Trust Golf Links event at Ramside Hall.
Finished tied sixth at LPGA Q-Series
Earned LPGA Tour membership for the 2023 season through the eight-round qualifying event.
Began her LPGA rookie season
Entered the tour at eighteen and made her first full-season starts against international fields.
Won the Portland Classic after Monday qualifying
Ended nine consecutive missed cuts with a closing 63, a tournament-record 262 and a four-stroke victory.
Added the Dana Open
Held off Haeran Ryu by one stroke to win in consecutive LPGA seasons and pass $1 million in career earnings.
Finished runner-up in a major
Closed with 68 and tied for second at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, three strokes behind Minjee Lee.
Shared second in Arkansas
Finished in a three-way tie for runner-up at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship in September.
From Chiang Mai amateur golf to a professional start
Chanettee Wannasaen was born in Chiang Mai on 16 April 2004. The official LPGA record lists northern Thailand as both her hometown and residence, distinguishing her route from the Bangkok-based junior systems that produced several earlier Thai tour winners. She built her first public competitive record in Thailand and won the 2019 Singha Thailand Amateur Match Play Championship while still fifteen.
She turned professional in 2021 at seventeen. The move placed her in a network of regional tours rather than immediately on the LPGA. That pathway matters: professional status created opportunities to earn money and tournament experience, but the fields, purses and access categories remained separate from the main United States circuit. Chanettee needed results in Thailand, Europe and qualifying school to connect them.
The 2022 season supplied those results. She won the Singha Pattaya Ladies Open and the SAT-NSDF 5th Thai LPGA Championship, then captured the Trust Golf Links Series event at Ramside Hall on the LET Access Series. The three victories demonstrated that her success travelled beyond one domestic course or field and prepared her for the longer qualifying test at the end of the year.
Q-Series opens the LPGA door
Chanettee finished tied for sixth at the 2022 LPGA Q-Series, earning membership for the 2023 season. The event required eight rounds over two weeks, so the result measured endurance as well as a low tournament score. It placed an eighteen-year-old from Chiang Mai inside the highest qualifying group and gave her access to a rookie schedule on the world’s deepest women’s tour.
Tour membership did not make the transition smooth. LPGA travel added unfamiliar courses, deeper fields and weekly pressure to retain status. Chanettee made some early cuts but then missed nine in succession. By late August, the season that had begun with a strong qualifying result had become a struggle to reach weekend play, and she did not hold a place in the Portland Classic field.
Her remaining route into the tournament was Monday qualifying, a short competition for a very small number of starting places. Chanettee earned one of them. That achievement only admitted her to Thursday’s first round; it did not change her recent missed-cut record or guarantee status beyond the week. What followed made the qualifier itself the first stage of one of the season’s most unlikely wins.
A Monday qualifier wins Portland
Chanettee opened the 2023 Portland Classic with 68 and followed with 66 and 65. Those rounds kept her near the lead while also ending the immediate danger of another missed cut. In the final round she played bogey-free, made nine birdies and shot 63. Her total of 262, twenty-six under par, set a seventy-two-hole tournament scoring record and left Xiyu Lin four strokes behind.
The victory made Chanettee only the third Monday qualifier to win an LPGA Tour event, following Laurel Kean in 2000 and Brooke Henderson in 2015. She was nineteen years, four months and eighteen days old. The status change was immediate: instead of fighting week by week for starts and a tour card, she became a full LPGA winner with membership security and entry into events reserved for champions.
The circumstances explain why Portland is more than a first title. Chanettee did not arrive on a run of form or with a sponsor invitation that insulated her from qualifying. She entered after nine missed cuts, survived the Monday gateway and then recorded four rounds in the sixties. The week transformed failure and uncertainty into a measurable demonstration that the level required for a win had remained present even when recent results obscured it.
The Dana Open confirms the breakthrough
A first victory can be treated as an exception until a player repeats it. Chanettee entered the 2024 Dana Open with a season that already included top-ten finishes at the Mizuho Americas Open and Dow Championship. She shot 66, 65 and 66 to reach twenty-under pace and built a five-stroke lead before the final round at Highland Meadows.
Haeran Ryu reduced that advantage with a closing 65. Chanettee responded with 67, including birdies on the final two holes, and finished at twenty under par, one stroke ahead. The win gave her two LPGA titles in consecutive seasons, crossed the $1 million mark in official career earnings and made her the youngest LPGA winner of the 2024 season at twenty years, three months and five days.
The scoring details showed continuity between her victories. She needed 105 putts across four rounds in Portland and only 102 at the Dana Open, her two lowest totals in seventy-two-hole LPGA events at the time. Yet the final-day situations were different: Portland required chasing with 63, while Ohio required protecting a large lead as a rival closed. Winning both showed that the rookie breakthrough had become repeatable under opposite pressures.
A Sunday charge in a major championship
Chanettee’s major record took a large step forward at the 2025 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at Fields Ranch East. She began with 75, followed with consecutive 72s and entered Sunday outside the leading group. On a demanding course where only three players ultimately finished under par, she made three front-nine birdies and drove the 235-yard par-four fifteenth green before converting an eagle.
Her closing 68 tied the round of the day and lifted her into a share of second with Auston Kim at one under par. Minjee Lee won by three. Chanettee’s previous best major finish had been a tie for seventeenth at the 2024 Evian Championship, so the runner-up result was not a small incremental improvement. It placed her within one group of the championship lead and produced her largest official payday to that point.
The performance also changed how her career could be read. Portland demonstrated a dramatic breakthrough and the Dana Open proved she could win again. The KPMG result showed she could contend when scoring was difficult and the title did not depend on reaching twenty under par. A final-round charge at a major added course management and resilience to the power and putting already visible in her wins.
A young career with two wins and room to grow
Chanettee continued to produce high finishes without adding a third title by the review date. In September 2026 she shared second at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship with Aki Iwai and In Gee Chun. The result followed two missed cuts and showed the same capacity to reverse short-term form that had defined Portland three years earlier.
As of 3 October 2026, the LPGA listed her with two career victories, twelve top-ten finishes, twenty-five top-25 finishes and about $3.5 million in official career earnings. She had also represented Thailand at the 2025 International Crown, moving from individual tour survival into a national team selected from the country’s deep professional pool.
Her significance should therefore remain proportionate to a career still in progress. Chanettee is not yet defined by a decade of wins or a world No. 1 ranking. She is the golfer who joined the LPGA at eighteen, endured nine consecutive missed cuts, became a champion through Monday qualifying, repeated the next season and contended in a major at twenty-one. Those achievements already make her an essential part of Thailand’s expanding LPGA history while leaving the later shape of the career open.
Quick answers
Frequently asked questions about Chanettee Wannasaen
- Who is Chanettee Wannasaen?
- Chanettee Wannasaen is a two-time LPGA Tour winner. Chanettee became only the third Monday qualifier to win an LPGA event and backed the breakthrough with a second title and a 2025 KPMG Women’s PGA runner-up finish.
- What is Chanettee Wannasaen best known for?
- Chanettee Wannasaen is best known for winning the 2023 Portland Classic as a Monday qualifier and the 2024 Dana Open.
- When and where was Chanettee Wannasaen born?
- Chanettee Wannasaen was born on 16 April 2004 in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Sources and further reading
How this biography was checked
Core dates and offices are checked against the sources below. This profile was last reviewed on 3 October 2026.
- LPGAChanettee Wannasaen career overview
- LPGAChanettee Wannasaen 2026 results
- LPGAChanettee wins the 2023 Portland Classic after Monday qualifying
- LPGA2024 Portland Classic pre-tournament notes and defending-champion record
- LPGAChanettee wins the 2024 Dana Open
- LPGAIn the Winner’s Circle — 2024 Dana Open
- LPGA2024 LPGA Tour storylines and Dana Open summary
- PGA of AmericaChanettee Wannasaen KPMG Women’s PGA player profile
- PGA of AmericaChanettee’s 2025 KPMG Women’s PGA runner-up finish
- LPGAFinal tournament summary — 2025 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship
- LPGAThailand team — 2025 International Crown
- LPGAChanettee shares second at the 2026 Walmart NW Arkansas Championship
