Asian Tour

The Asian Tour is a series of tournaments in professional golf, which organizes the corresponding events in Asia (except for Japan, where the Japan Golf Tour is in charge ). It is one of the top six tournament series of the International Federation of PGA Tours, based on which the golf world ranking is calculated.

The first season in the currently valid format was played in 1995, it had been carried out earlier attempts to organize an Asian tournament series. The Asian PGA was founded in 1994 and constituted in Hong Kong at a meeting with PGA representatives from eight different countries in July 1994. In 1998, the Asian Tour, the sixth member of the International Federation of PGA Tours. 2004, the tour was taken over by a newly formed organization of players who did not agree with the previous management.

Most participants at the Asian Tour Asians are naturally, but it also play many Australians and professional golfers from other nations. Since some tournaments are conducted jointly with the European Tour and included in their summary, these also many top European golfers are at the start. These events have significantly higher prize money than the rest of the tournaments on the Asian Tour. In the 2008 season, the total prize money amounted to over $ 43 million.

For tournaments with prize money of $ 2 million is jointly organized with the European Tour, which are mostly dominated by their members. In the remaining tournaments the payout moved from 300,000 to 1.25 Mio dollars. Asia's highly doped tournament with $ 7 million WGC - HSBC Champions tournament, which only partially flows into the money ladder rank the Asian Tour since it would distort them too much.

Winner of the money list since 2000

  • 2012 Thaworn Wiratchant Thailand Thailand
  • Juvic Pagunsan 2011 Philippines Philippines
  • 2010 Noh Seung- yul of Korea South Korea
  • 2009 Thongchai Jaidee Thailand Thailand
  • 2008 Jeev Milkha Singh | India India
  • 2007 Liang Wen- Chong of China People's Republic of China
  • 2006 Jeev Milkha Singh India India
  • 2005 Thaworn Wiratchant Thailand Thailand
  • 2004 Thongchai Jaidee Thailand Thailand
  • Arjun Atwal India 2003 India
  • 2002 Jyoti Randhawa India India
  • 2001 Thongchai Jaidee Thailand Thailand
  • 2000 Simon Dyson England England
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