2008 Asian Tour
The 2008 Asian Tour was the 14th season of the modern Asian Tour, the main men's professional golf tour in Asia excluding Japan, since it was established in 1995. Prize money for the season exceeded US$43 million and Jeev Milkha Singh topped the Order of Merit for the second time with a record US$1,452,702.
Tournament results
The table below shows the 2008 schedule.
The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Asian Tour events he had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Asian Tour members.
Only 50% of the prize money from major championships and World Golf Championships are counted towards the Order of Merit, but are not shown below.
| Dates | Tournament | Country | Prize fund (US$) |
Winner | OWGR pts |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 7-10 | Emaar-MGF Indian Masters | India | 2,500,000 |  |
26 | New tournament, co-sanctioned by the European Tour |
| Feb 14-17 | Enjoy Jakarta Astro Indonesia Open | Indonesia | 1,200,000 |  |
20 | Co-sanctioned by the European Tour |
| Feb 20-23 | SAIL Open Golf Championship at Jaypee Greens | India | 400,000 |  |
14 | New tournament |
| Feb 28- Mar 4 | Johnnie Walker Classic | India | 2,500,000 | |
38 | Co-sanctioned by the European and Australasian tours |
| Mar 6-9 | Maybank Malaysian Open | Malaysia | 2,000,000 | |
24 | Co-sanctioned by the European Tour |
| Mar 13-16 | Ballantine's Championship | South Korea | 2,900,000 |  |
28 | New tournament, co-sanctioned by the European Tour |
| Mar 20-23 | Asian Tour International | Thailand | 300,000 |  |
14 | New tournament |
| Apr 3-6 | Philippine Open | The Philippines | 300,000 |  |
14 | |
| Apr 17-20 | Volvo China Open | China | 2,000,000 | |
20 | Co-sanctioned by the European Tour |
| Apr 24-27 | BMW Asian Open | China | 2,300,000 | |
32 | Co-sanctioned by the European Tour |
| May 1-4 | GS Caltex Maekyung Open | South Korea | 600,000 |  |
14 | |
| May 8-11 | Pine Valley Beijing Open | China | 1,000,000 |  |
16 | Co-sanctioned by the Japan Golf Tour |
| June 5-8 | Bangkok Airways Open | Thailand | 300,000 |  |
14 | |
| June 26-29 | Singha Thailand PGA Championship | Thailand | 500,000 | |
14 | New tournament |
| Aug 6-9 | Worldwide Selangor Masters | Malaysia | 310,000 |  |
14 | New tournament |
| Aug 21-24 | Brunei Open | Brunei | 300,000 | .svg.png){kind=small} |
14 | |
| Aug 28-31 | Pertamina Indonesia President Invitational | Indonesia | 350,000 | |
14 | |
| Sep 18-21 | Mercuries Taiwan Masters | Taiwan | 500,000 | |
14 | |
| Sep 25-28 | Asia-Pacific Panasonic Open | Japan | 1,850,000 | |
20 | New tournament, co-sanctioned by the Japan Golf Tour |
| Oct 2-5 | Kolon-Hana Bank Korea Open | South Korea | 1,000,000 | |
18 | |
| Oct 9-12 | Hero Honda Indian Open | India | 1,000,000 |  |
14 | |
| Oct 16-19 | Midea China Classic | China | 500,000 | |
14 | |
| Oct 23-26 | Macau Open | Macau | 500,000 | |
14 | |
| Oct 30-Nov 2 | Iskandar Johor Open | Malaysia | 500,000 |  |
14 | |
| Nov 6-9 | HSBC Champions | China | 5,000,000 |  |
52 | Co-sanctioned by the European, Australasian and Sunshine tours. 50% of prize money counts towards Order of Merit. |
| Nov 13-16 | Barclays Singapore Open | Singapore | 5,000,000 | |
38 | Richest sole-sanctioned event |
| Nov 20-23 | UBS Hong Kong Open | Hong Kong, China | 2,250,000 | |
32 | Co-sanctioned by the European Tour |
| Dec 4-7 | Hana Bank Vietnam Masters | Vietnam | 500,000 | |
14 | |
| Dec 11-14 | Johnnie Walker Cambodian Open | Cambodia | 300,000 | |
14 | |
| Dec 18-21 | Volvo Masters of Asia | Thailand | 750,000 |  |
20 | Limited to top 65 on the Order of Merit |
Leading money winners
| Rank | Player | Country | Earnings (US$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeev Milkha Singh | | 1,452,701.69 |
| 2 | Lin Wen-tang | | 844,734.81 |
| 3 | Mark Brown | | 778,037.94 |
| 4 | Liang Wen-chong | | 521,428.24 |
| 5 | David Gleeson | | 483,120.80 |
| 6 | Shiv Chowrasia | | 482,293.06 |
| 7 | Bae Sang-moon | | 419,952.68 |
| 8 | Thaworn Wiratchant | | 404,555.27 |
| 9 | Scott Strange | | 380,678.35 |
| 10 | Noh Seung-yul | | 345,823.92 |
There is a complete list on the official site here.
gollark: uints are the one true int type!
gollark: Things which Google uses are not necessarily good.
gollark: Yes, because Google is weird.
gollark: Well, it's easy to start with, but not easy to get anything decent done fast.
gollark: I mean, of all the things to special-case into the language's syntax and low-level semantics, *channels*?
External links
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.