Chapchai Nirat ( th, ชัพชัย นิราช; born 5 June 1983) is a Thai professional

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...

er. Chapchai is the son of a Thai national team golfer, and turned professional in 1998 as a fifteen-year-old. He won for the first time as a pro at the 2004 Genting Masters in Malaysia. He joined the

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. Official money events on the tour count for Wo ...

in 2005, and had a second-place finish in his rookie season. In 2007 he won the

TCL Classic The TCL Classic was a men's professional golf tournament which was played on a course designed by American Robert Trent Jones, Jr. at Yalong Bay Golf Club in Sanya on Hainan Island, People's Republic of China four times between 2002 and 2007. ...

, which is co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour and the

European Tour The European Tour (currently known as the DP World Tour for sponsorship reasons), legally the PGA European Tour is the leading men's professional golf tour in Europe. The organisation also operates the European Senior Tour (for players aged fi ...

and the Hana Bank Vietnam Masters. He was the third Thai to win a European Tour event. In March 2009, Nirat shot 32-under-par over 72 holes to claim the

SAIL Open The SAIL-SBI Open was a golf tournament on the Asian Tour, played in India between 2008 and 2014. It was co-sanctioned by the Professional Golf Tour of India. The title sponsors were Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and State Bank of India ...

, setting a new Asian Tour record for the best 72-hole score.

Professional wins (11)

European Tour wins (1)

¹Co-sanctioned by the

Asian Tour wins (4)

¹Co-sanctioned by the

Asian Tour playoff record (1–1)

Asian Development Tour wins (1)

¹Co-sanctioned by the All Thailand Golf Tour

All Thailand Golf Tour wins (4)

* 2007 Singha Pattaya Open *

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Singha Championship, Singha Chiang Mai Open¹ *

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Thongchai Jaidee Foundation² ¹Co-sanctioned by the ASEAN PGA Tour
²Co-sanctioned by the Asian Development Tour

Thailand PGA Tour wins (1)

TrustGolf Tour wins (1)

''*Note: The 2021 Thailand Mixed #2 was shortened to 54 holes due to COVID-19 restrictions.''

Other wins (1)

*2004 Genting Masters (Malaysia)

Results in World Golf Championships

"T" = Tied
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

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