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Asian Tour
The Asian Golf Tour is the principal men's professional golf tour in Asia except for Japan, which has a separate tour.
The first season in the current lineage was played in 1995, although there had been earlier attempts to create an Asian Tour. The Asian PGA was formed in July 1994 at a meeting in Hong Kong attended by PGA representatives from eight countries - Hong Kong, India, Korea, Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, and Singapore. In 1998 the Asian Tour became the sixth member of the International Federation of PGA Tours. 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 that year the official prize fund on the Asian Tour exceeded $7 million. Official events on the tour count for World Golf Ranking points.
Most of the leading players on the tour are Asian, but players from many other countries also participate. Each year the Asian Tour co-sanctions a number of events with the PGA European Tour, and these events offer higher prize funds than most of the other tournaments on the tour.
Leading money winners on the Asian Tour
- 2004 Thongchai Jaidee Thailand - $381,930
- 2003 Arjun Atwal India -
- 2002 Jyoti Randhawa India - $266,263
- 2001 Thongchai Jaidee Thailand - $353,060
- 2000 Simon Dyson England - $282, 370
- 1999 Kyi Hla Han Myanmar - $204,210
- 1998 Kang Wook-soon South Korea - $150,772
- 1997 Mike Cunning United States - $170,619
- 1996 Kang Wook-soon South Korea - $ 183,737
- 1995 Lin Keng-chi Taiwan - $177,856
The amounts are in U.S. Dollars.
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