Tournament Information

• Tournament: International Series Thailand
• Date: October 24-27, 2024
• Venue: Thai Country Club, Chachoengsao, Thailand
• Par/Yards: Par-70 / 7,076 Yards
• Purse: US$2 million (First place US$360,000)
• Asian Tour leg: 16th event of 2024 season
• The International Series leg: Sixth
• Edition of tournament: Third
• Total number of players: 150
• Format: 72-hole stroke play with a cut made after two rounds. The leading 65 pros plus ties make the cut.
• Social Media Hashtags: #TimeToRise #InternationalSeries #ThisISEverything

A general view of the 18th hospitality facility at the International Series Thailand at Thai Country Club, Bangkok, Thailand. Picture by Paul Lakatos / Asian Tour.

Field Breakdown

• Order of Merit winners: Sihwan Kim (2022), Jazz Janewattananond (2019), Scott Hend (2016)
• Nationalities: 28
• Top contenders: John Catlin (USA), Ben Campbell (NZL), Michael Maguire (USA), Rattanon Wannasrichan (THA), Suteepat Prateeptienchai (THA)
• Highest ranked player on OWGR: John Catlin (USA) #114
• Highest ranked player on 2024 Asian Tour Order of Merit: John Catlin #1
• Highest ranked player on 2024 International Series Rankings: John Catlin #1
• of amateurs: 2
• of Thai players in the field: 38

 Thai Country Club’s clubhouse. Picture by Paul Lakatos / Asian Tour.

Tournament Notes

• Last week’s runner-up John Catlin has won at Thai Country Club before, clinching the 2019 Thailand Open in a play-off against Thailand’s Pavit Tangkamolprasert and Shiv Kapur from India. The American’s play has been superb this whole season with seven top 10s in nine Asian Tour events, and he leads both the Asian Tour Order of Merit and The International Series Rankings. The 33-year-old has posted two victories so far this season, the International Series Macau presented by Wynn and the Saudi Open presented by PIF, as well as three runners-up in last week’s Black Mountain Championship, the International Series Morocco and the Yeangder TPC. A tied third finish in the season opening Prima Malaysian Open secured him a spot in the 152nd Open Championship where he finished tied 16th for his best result in a Major. After last week’s tournament at Black Mountain, he extended his Asian Tour Order of Merit lead to 2,403.27 points over Spain’s David Puig who is in second place on 1,146.83. He also leads The International Series Ranking with 810.88 points against 526.83 for New Zealander Ben Campbell who sits in second. He has also subbed in for injured players on three different teams on the LIV Golf League this year and posted an impressive T7 in LIV Golf Nashville in June. Catlin has amassed US$1,304,225 in earnings on the Asian Tour so far this season, while his LIV Golf League total was US$1,629,367 in his 2024 campaign.
• New Zealander Ben Campbell is a two-time International Series winner after capturing this summer’s International Series Morocco in a play-off against John Catlin, and the 2023 Hong Kong Open. Currently second in The International Series Rankings, Campbell finished T4 in last week’s Black Mountain Championship, and other good results this season includes a T5 at the International Series Macau presented by Wynn and a T10 at the 103rd New Zealand Open presented by Sky Sport.
• American Michael Maguire was the winner in last week’s Black Mountain Championship after defeating John Catlin on the second play-off hole, and as a result he vaulted up to fourth place on the Asian Tour Order of Merit from 50^th the previous week. He also made a big move in The International Series Rankings and now sits in fifth place. Maguire also had a good result at the Mercuries Taiwan Masters three weeks ago where he finished T7.
• Suteepat Prateeptienchai from Thailand has been playing some great golf of late, winning last month’s Yeangder TPC by two shots over John Catlin. The win came 10 months after winning the Taiwan Glass Taifong Open for his first Asian Tour victory last December. He also finished T4 in Hua Hin last week, and posted a T6 in the Mandiri Indonesia Open in early September. Suteepat currently sits in fifth place on the Asian Tour Order of Merit.
• While Thailand’s Rattanon Wannasrichan missed the cut at Black Mountain Last week, he won the previous week’s SJM Macao Open wire-to- wire by two shots over compatriot Gunn Charoenkul and finished T4 at the Mercuries Taiwan Masters the week before the win in Macao. Rattanon is also a previous winner at Thai Country Club, having won the 2017 Thailand Open at the venue for his first Asian Tour title.
• Thai Country Club has hosted several Asian Tour events in the past, most recently the 2017, 2018 and 2019 Thailand Opens, won by Rattanon Wannasrichan, Panuphol Pittayarat and John Catlin The club was notably also the site of the 1997 Asian Honda Classic famously won by Tiger Woods.
• Other players to look out for this week are LIV Golf players Peter Uihlein, winner of this summer’s International Series England, Sam Horsfield, Branden Grace, Danny Lee, former Ryder Cup star Chris Wood, winner of the Thailand Open in 2012, plus influencers Luke Kwon and Mac Boucher.