The Asian Golf Tour is the principal men's professional golf tour in Asia except for Japan, which has a separate tour. Golfer teeing off at the start of a hole Golf is an outdoor game where individual players or teams play a small ball into a hole using various clubs. ... World map showing location of Asia A satellite composite image of Asia Asia is the central and eastern part of the continent of Eurasia, defined by subtracting the European peninsula from Eurasia. ... The Japan Golf Tour is a prominent golf 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. Official events on the tour count for World Golf Ranking points. The International Federation of PGA Tours is the trade body for the six leading regional mens professional golf tours. ... The Official World Golf Rankings are a system for rating the performance level of male professional golfers. ...

Most of the leading players on the tour are Asian, but players from other parts of the world 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. In 2005 the total prize fund is 20.215 million U.S. dollars (all purses are fixed in dollars), compared to $12.3 million in 2004. However nine of the ten purses of one million dollars or above 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 $200,000 to $830,000, with the exception of the Singapore Open, which has a $2,000,000 purse. World map showing location of Asia A satellite composite image of Asia Asia is the central and eastern part of the continent of Eurasia, defined by subtracting the European peninsula from Eurasia. ... The PGA European Tour is a top-level professional mens golf tour, headquartered in Virginia Water, Surrey, United Kingdom, that is the primary golf tour in Europe. ...

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

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External link

• - Asian Tour offical English language site (http://www.asiantour.com)