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Most of the leading players on the tour are Australian , with a smaller domestic contingent from New Zealand , but players from many other countries all over the world also participate. The very best Australasian players devote most of their time to the PGA Tour or the European Tour , typically returning home for two or three events each year or even not at all. Therefore Australasian Tour is a feeder for the larger tours. Some of the leading events are co-sanctioned by the European Tour in order to encourage higher Ranked players to enter and to attract more sponsorship. Players with a background on the tour who have reached the World Top 20 since the turn of the Millennium include Steve Elkington and Adam Scott . The leading tournaments on the tour include the Australian Open , the Australian PGA Championship , the Australian Masters and the New Zealand Open . The PGA Tour of Australasia's development tour is the Von Nida Tour which features around ten events with purses of around one hundred thousand Australian Dollar s each. The main tour events take place in the Southern Hemisphere summer, that is late in the calendar year and early in the next one, while the Von Nida Tour events mainly take place in the local spring and autumn. However the money list is calculated for calendar years. In November 2005 it was reported by the BBC that the tour was going through difficult times, with the schedule for the 2005/06 summer season reduced to six events, three of them co-sponsored by other tours. The Heineken Classic , which was the richest event in Australasia in 2005, has been cancelled in 2006 due to the withdrawal of the sponsor. One factor in the tour's problems is the rise of the nearby Asian Tour . The tour chairman Wayne Grady , and player Mark Hensby both complained that Australia's biggest golf icon Greg Norman , who is a U.S. resident, doesn't do enough to support the tour. Norman dismissed their comments. {Link without Title} ORDER OF MERIT WINNERS This list is incomplete
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