But Ratchanon is not like most kids his age -- he's already a history-making amateur golfer competing against some of the game's best professionals.In April -- five weeks on from his 15th birthday -- he made international headlines when he became the youngest male player to win on a major Tour, claiming the $750,000 Trust Golf Asian Mixed Cup in his native Thailand.
Hide Caption 1 of 8 Photos: Golf's greatest-ever prodigiesFollowing a series of wins in Canadian amateur events, Brooke Henderson became the youngest-ever winner of the KPMG Women's PGA Championship when she won her first major aged 18 in 2016. Henderson has since racked up eight wins on the LPGA Tour, her most recent coming at the LA Open in April 2021.
Hide Caption 2 of 8 Photos: Golf's greatest-ever prodigiesAfter becoming the youngest player to win the British Amateur Championship in 2009 and make the cut at The Masters as a 16-year-old the following year, Italy's Matteo Manassero burst onto the pro scene, becoming the first teenager to win three times on the European Tour.
Hide Caption 7 of 8 Photos: Golf's greatest-ever prodigiesOne of the most famed golf prodigies in recent history, a 10-year-old Michelle Wie became the youngest player to qualify for a USGA amateur Championship in 2000. Aged 14 in 2004, she bested many of the world's top men's players' and major winners at the Sony Open despite narrowly missing the cut.
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