Asian Development Tour

The Asian Development Tour, founded in 2010, is a professional golf tour. It is the development tour for the Asian Tour, with a relationship analogous to the Web.com Tour to the PGA Tour and the Challenge Tour to the European Tour. Players who fail to earn Asian Tour cards through qualifying school may play on the tour. The top five players on the Order of Merit (money list) at the end of the year will earn an Asian Tour card for the following season.[1] Beginning in 2013, tournaments carry Official World Golf Ranking points, with a minimum of six points to the winner and points to the top six plus ties.[2][3] Most of the tournaments are in Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, and Indonesia. Several of the tournaments are co-sanctioned with the Professional Golf of Malaysia Tour and the All Thailand Golf Tour.[4]

Asian Development Tour
Current season, competition or edition:
2019 Asian Development Tour
SportGolf
Founded2010
CountriesBased in Southeast Asia
Official websitehttp://asiandevelopmenttour.com/

The ADT has a 36-hole cut of fifty plus ties.

For the 2014 ADT season, the ADT changed its policy to award Asian Tour cards to the top five players on the ADT Order of Merit, up from three in previous seasons. Should an ADT player finish within the top 63 on the Asian Tour's Order of Merit, the next ADT golfer is promoted.

2019 Schedule

Schedule by year

The table below summarises the development of the tour. For some tournaments, the official purse is in local currency instead of United States dollars. The Order of Merit is calculated in U.S. dollars.

YearTournamentsTotal purse (US$)
2018221,561,000
2017201,540,471
2016241,795,100
2015282,159,650
2014211,620,000
2013161,050,000
201213930,000
20118648,332
20105441,000

Order of Merit winners

YearWinnerCountryWinnings (US$)
2019Naoki Sekito Japan50,942
2018Miguel Ángel Carballo Argentina43,378
2017Pannakorn Uthaipas Thailand55,859
2016Johannes Veerman United States58,662
2015Casey O'Toole United States55,286
2014Pavit Tangkamolprasert Thailand68,975
2013Nicholas Fung Malaysia43,998
2012Jay Bayron Philippines34,310
2011Jonathan Moore United States29,580
2010S. Siva Chandhran Malaysia27,969

Source:[5]

References

  1. "About Us – Asian Development Tour". Archived from the original on 23 August 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  2. "How The System Works". Official World Golf Ranking. Archived from the original on 24 February 2013. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
  3. "World Ranking Status For Asian Development Tour From 2013". Asian Tour. 27 July 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
  4. "Calendar of Events 2013". Professional Golf of Malaysia. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  5. "Order of Merit". Asian Development Tour. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
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