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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. In 1998 the Asian Tour became the sixth member of the 2007. which is also the home of the tour's richest sole sanctioned tournament, the Singapore Open . Official money events on the tour count for World Golf Ranking points. Most of the leading players on the tour are Asia n, 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). Each year the Asian Tour co-sanctions a number of events with the European Tour , and these events offer higher prize funds than most of the other tournaments on the tour. In 2005 the total prize fund was 20.215 million U.S. dollars (all purses are fixed in dollars apart from that of the Johnnie Walker Classic , which is fixed in British Pounds), compared to $12.3 million in 2004. However most of the tournaments with seven figure U.S. dollar purses are in events co-sanctioned by the European Tour, and European Tour players tend to collect most of the winnings in those tournaments. Prize funds in the Asian Tour's sole-sanctioned events range from $300,000 to $1,000,000, with the exception of the Singapore Open, which has a $4,000,000 purse. Asia's richest event, the $5 million HSBC Champions tournament, which was first played in November 2005, is co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour but does not count towards the money list as any high placings by Asian Tour players would distort the money list. In 2006 prize money exceeded $24 million. The tour's schedule remains quite unstable, with several in-season cancellations, reschedulings and prize fund alterations in 2007. As of 17 August 2007, the 2007 season has 27 official money events with $27.33 million in prize money. 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. South Korea's Se Ri Pak did so on the Korean PGA Tour in 2003, but that tour is a feeder for the Asian Tour and does not offer World Ranking points. Babe Zaharias made a cut on the PGA Tour in 1945 when many male golfers were in the armed forces. SCHEDULE The table below shows the 2007 schedule. It includes one special event which does not count towards the money list (the HSBC Champions ). Prize funds shown in brackets do not count towards the money list. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Asian Tour events he had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Asian Tour members. Source: {Link without Title} LEADING MONEY WINNERS BY YEAR LEADING CAREER MONEY WINNERS The table below shows the leading money winners on the Asian Tour from 1995 to 17 December 2006. The official site has a top 100 list which also shows each player's winnings for the last six years. {Link without Title} REFERENCES SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINK |
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