Charles Wang

Exempt status

• Korn Ferry Tour: Additional Qualifying Tournament Finalist (thru 2023)

JOINED TOUR

• Korn Ferry Tour: 2016
• PGA TOUR Canada: 2018

Personal

• Would like to open a sport agency if he were not a professional golfer.
• Earliest golf memory is making a hole-in-one in a junior tournament.
• Has a head cover of a snow leopard.
• Best sporting event he attended was the 2008 Summer Olympics' opening ceremony in Beijing.
• Not many people know he likes to bungee jump.
• After earning his Korn Ferry Tour card at the Qualifying Tournament, he celebrated by going sky-diving.
• He is an accomplished violinist who served as his school's orchestral concertmaster in 2012-13 and performed as a volunteer violinist with the Venice Symphony from 2011-13.
• Skipped a grade in high school and enrolled at Northwestern University as a 17-year-old.
• Enjoys playing music in his sister's band.

Special Interests

Career Highlights

2022 Season

Played in nine PGA TOUR Canada events, making four cuts. Finished the year No. 117 on the Fortinet Cup standings.

• Sotheby's International Realty Canada Ontario Open: Made his 10th career hole-in-one and fifth in competition when he aced in the third round the par-3 16th using a 9-iron from 157 yards at Woodington Lake GC.
• PGA TOUR Canada Q-School USA East 2: Was 14-under through 54 holes at Mission Inn Resort and Club in Central Florida in mid-March then closed with an even-par 72 to finish alone in third to earn PGA TOUR Canada status for the third time in his career. Will be exempt through the first half of the season.

2021 Season

• Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada Q-School-USA East 2: Started with a 2-over 74 but was 8-under the rest of the way at Mission Inn Club and Resort’s El Campeon Course in Central Florida in early March. Finished alone in ninth and will be conditionally exempt for the Mackenzie Tour season.

2019 Season

• Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada Q-School-USA EAST 1: Despite a final-round 73, was still able to earn full status for the first half of the season with his seventh-place finish at Mission Inn Club and Resort.

2018 Season

Played in 11 PGA TOUR Canada tournaments, making four cuts. Had one top-10 that led to a 72nd-place finish on the Order of Merit.

• Osprey Valley Open: Made two eagles on his back nine during the opening round to shoot 63, his lowest career Mackenzie Tour round. Battled back from a 1-over score Friday with a 7-under combined finish to place T10.

2017 Season

Played his first season on the Korn Ferry Tour, with conditional status. Made six appearances, with two made cuts. Finished 190th on the money list. Appeared in two Korn Ferry Tour tournaments, missing the cut in both.

Amateur Highlights

• Played collegiately at the Northwestern University in Illinois. Was teammates with Mackenzie Tour member Dylan Wu and PGA TOUR China-Series member Matthew Negri.

Q SCHOOL GRADUATE

• Korn Ferry Tour: 2015
• PGA TOUR Canada: 2018
• PGA TOUR Canada: 2019
• PGA TOUR Canada: 2022
• Korn Ferry Tour: 2022