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19-856: In 2017, the Indonesian Masters became the Asian Tour 's flagship event, replacing the Thailand Golf Championship which had been the flagship event up to 2015. Having not been held in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the tournament returned to the Asian Tour schedule in 2022 as part of the International Series . 6°16′17″S 106°54′06″E  /  6.2713°S 106.9016°E  / -6.2713; 106.9016 This article on

38-527: A golf tournament is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Asian Tour The Asian Tour is the principal men's professional golf tour in Asia except for Japan (which has its own Japan Golf Tour ). It is also a full member of the International Federation of PGA Tours . Official money events on the tour count for Official World Golf Ranking points. The Asian Tour

57-567: Is administered from Singapore. It is controlled by a board with a majority of professional golfers, and a Tournament Players Committee of its player members, supported by an executive team. The chairman of the board is the Indonesian businessman Jimmy Masrin. The Asian PGA was formed in July 1994 at a meeting in Hong Kong attended by PGA representatives from eight countries. The first season of

76-611: Is co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour and the earnings were counted towards the money list for its first three years before it became a World Golf Championships event in 2009. From 2009 to present, the earnings are not counted towards the Asian Tour Order of Merit. Another limited-field event in Malaysia, the CIMB Classic , was launched in 2010 with a $ 6 million purse. The first Asian Tour event to be co-sanctioned by

95-718: The European Tour , with these events offering higher prize funds than most of the other tournaments on the tour as a result. While most of these tournaments have been in Asia, the Omega European Masters in Switzerland has been co-sanctioned from 2009 to 2017. In addition, the two tours sometimes tri-sanction events with the Sunshine Tour or PGA Tour of Australasia in those tours' respective regions. The Asian Tour also co-sanctions tournaments with

114-663: The Japan Golf Tour . Since 2008, 50 percent of players' earnings from the US Open and The Open Championship have counted towards the Asian Tour's Order of Merit. The two Opens were singled out from the other majors because they have open qualifying which Asian Tour members may enter. Asia's richest event, the HSBC Champions , was first played in November 2005 with a prize fund of $ 5 million. The tournament

133-623: The South African Open , are co-sanctioned with the European Tour to attract stronger fields. The 2015 season included 27 official money events. The co-sanctioned events had purses ranging from € 1,000,000 to US$ 6,500,000, while the other 21 events had purses designated in South African Rand and ranging from 650,000 rand to 4.5 million rand. There was at least one tournament every month of the year except July, but

152-532: The 2001 Western Cape Classic and 2009 Highveld Classic ; Zimbabwe's Tongoona Charamba at the 2006 SAA Pro-Am Invitational and 2008 MTC Namibia PGA Championship ; Zambia's Madalitso Muthiya at the 2016 Vodacom Origins of Golf (Wild Coast); and South Africa's Toto Thimba Jr. at the 2019 KCB Karen Masters . In 2016, the Sunshine Tour announced an affiliation with the MENA Golf Tour , allowing

171-651: The APGA Omega Tour , as it was known for sponsorship reasons, was played in 1995 and within a few years it had supplanted the existing tour in the region, the Asia Golf Circuit that was run by the Asia Pacific Golf Confederation, as the leading golf tour in Asia outside of Japan. In 1998 the Asian Tour became the sixth member of the International Federation of PGA Tours . Under a new sponsorship deal, between 1999 and 2003

190-700: The US-based PGA Tour began as an unofficial event on that tour, but it started to offer official money and FedEx Cup points in 2013. In 2016, the tour's richest sole-sanctioned event was the Venetian Macao Open , with a prize fund of $ 1.1 million. Starting in 2022, the Saudi International became its signature event and became its richest sole-sanctioned event. That same year, the International Series

209-526: The leading players on the tour are Asian, but players from other parts of the world also participate (as of 2007 the country with most representatives profiled on the tour's official site is Australia). In 2006 the Asian Tour became the most prestigious men's tour on which a woman has made the half-way cut in recent times when Michelle Wie did so at the SK Telecom Open in South Korea. Among

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228-486: The main events took place in the South African summer from November to February. In accordance with the apartheid policy of the governments of Southern Africa, the tour was only open to White players for its first 20 years. The tour has been open to non-White players since 1991. Five black golfers have won events: South Africa's John Mashego at the 1991 Bushveld Classic; South Africa's Lindani Ndwandwe at

247-462: The membership of the International Federation of PGA Tours , but it offers much less prize money than some of the leading tours, and leading Southern African golfers traditionally prefer to play on the PGA Tour or the European Tour if they can qualify to do so, typically returning to play in Sunshine Tour events a couple of times a year. Most of the tour's leading official money events, including

266-454: The top five MENA Tour players Sunshine Tour cards and those 6th-15th into the final stage of Q School. A number of events would also be co-sanctioned among the Sunshine Tour, MENA Tour, and developmental Big Easy Tour . In May 2022, it was announced that the Order of Merit would be reformatted for the 2022–23 season . It was sponsored by Luno, a cryptocurrency platform. The rankings changed to

285-524: The tour was known as the Davidoff Tour , before adopting its current name in 2004. In 2002, the tour moved its office from Hong Kong to Malaysia and in 2004 the tour was taken over by a new organisation established by the players, who had been in dispute with the previous management. In 2007 it moved to new headquarters on the resort island of Sentosa in Singapore, which is also the home to what

304-542: The ways to obtain an Asian Tour card is to be among the top 35 (including ties) at the Tour's qualifying school, finishing in the top 5 of the Asian Development Tour Order of Merit, and placing in the top 60 of the previous season's Order of Merit. The winner of the Asian Tour Order of Merit also receives entry into The Open Championship . Each year the Asian Tour co-sanctions a number of events with

323-628: Was at that time the tour's richest sole sanctioned tournament, the Singapore Open . In 2009 a rival tour, the OneAsia Tour , was established. Relations between the two tours are hostile. In 2010, the Asian Tour launched the Asian Development Tour (ADT) as a developmental circuit. Five events were played the first year. By 2015 the tour had expanded to holding 28 tournaments with US$ 2.2 million of prize money. Most of

342-667: Was known either as the Southern Africa Tour or Sunshine Circuit ; through sponsorship deals, it has also been known as the FNB Tour and the Vodacom Tour . For the 2000–01 season the tour rebranded itself as the Sunshine Tour in an attempt to broaden its appeal. A large majority of the tour events are still staged in South Africa. The tour is one of the six leading men's tours which before 2009 made up

361-546: Was launched, with the Order of Merit winner earning a spot in the LIV Golf League. The table below shows the leading money winners on the Asian Tour as of 16 October 2016. The official site has a top 100 list which also shows each player's winnings for 1995 to 2016. Sunshine Tour The Sunshine Tour is a men's professional golf tour based in Southern and East Africa . For much of its early history it

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