Chawalit Plaphol is a Thai

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

 golf

Golf

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He took up golf at the age of twelve and won team and individual gold medals for Thailand at the 1995 South East Asian Games. He turned professional in 1996 and has been a regular competitor on the Asian Tour

Asian Tour

The Asian Tour is the principal men's professional golf tour in Asia except for Japan, which has its own Japan Golf Tour, which is also a full member of the International Federation of PGA Tours. The Asian Tour is administered from offices in Singapore...

 since that year. He has won two Asian Tour events and in 2005 he achieved a career best order of merit placing of seventh. He also plays on the Japan Golf Tour

Japan Golf Tour

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, on which he was victorious in the 2004 ANA Open

ANA Open

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. He represented Thailand in the 2000 WGC-World Cup

WGC-World Cup

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 alongside his cousin Thammanoon Srirot

Thammanoon Srirot

Thammanoon Srirot is a Thai professional golfer who plays on the Asian Tour. He has five Asian Tour wins and was one of the first ten men to reach one million dollars in Asian Tour career earnings...

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Asian Tour wins (3)

• 1998 Orient Masters
• 2006
  2006 Asian Tour
  The 2006 Asian Tour was the 12th season of the modern Asian Tour, the main men's professional golf tour in Asia excluding Japan, since it was established in 1995...
  
   Bangkok Airways Open
  Bangkok Airways Open
  The Bangkok Airways Open was an Asian Tour golf tournament played in Thailand from 2005 to 2008. In 2008 the prize fund was US$300,000, which is one of the smaller purses on the tour.-Winners:-External links:*...
  
  
• 2011
  2011 Asian Tour
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   Queen's Cup
  Queen's Cup (golf)
  The Queen's Cup is a golf tournament on the Asian Tour and is played in Thailand. The inaugural tournament was held in 2009 at the Santiburi Samui Country Club and the prize fund was US$300,000. Chinnarat Phadungsil won the tournament and won $47,550....
  
  

Other wins (2)

• 1998 Hugo Boss Foursomes (China; with Jim Rutledge
  Jim Rutledge
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• 2010 ICTSI Mt. Malarayat Championship (Mercedes-Benz Tour, Philippines)

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