Nathan Charnes, PGA of America Secretary

PGA of America Secretary
WingHaven Country Club
O’Fallon, Missouri

PGA of America Secretary Nathan Charnes, PGA is the General Manager and Director of Golf of WingHaven Country Club in O’Fallon, Missouri, and a member of the Gateway PGA Section. From 2004-11, he served as the club’s PGA Head Professional.

For the past 20 years, he has been involved extensively with the PGA of America,
both locally and nationally. At the local level, he served as the Education Chairman
for the Gateway PGA Section, which led to him being elected to the Gateway PGA
Board of Directors from 2011-’18. 

His national involvement grew when then-PGA of America President Allen Wronowski asked Charnes to join the National PGA Membership Committee, one of five national committees on which he has served. He was later elected to the PGA Board of Directors as District 7 Director (Gateway, Midwest and South Central PGA Sections), serving a term from 2019-’21.

Charnes was elected national PGA Secretary at the 2022 PGA Annual Meeting in Phoenix.

He is a seven-time Gateway PGA Section Award recipient, including the Section’s
2012 & 2022 PGA Golf Professional of the Year. Recently, Charnes was selected to serve as a
Life Trustee for PGA REACH Gateway.

Charnes previously served as an Assistant Golf Professional at Novadell in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He began his career as an Assistant Golf Professional/Golf Shop Attendant at Oak Meadow Golf Club in Evansville, Indiana.

A 2001 graduate of the University of Evansville, Charnes played on the school’s golf team. 

Charnes and his wife, Eva, reside in Lake St. Louis, Missouri. They have three children—Lilly, Nathan and Grace.