Year: | 1998 |
Tour: | Asian PGA Tour |
Regular Season: | – |
No Of Events: | 19 |
Most Wins: | Kang Wook-soon (2) Chris Williams (2) |
Honor1: | Order of Merit |
Honoree1: | Kang Wook-soon |
Honor2: | Players' Player of the Year |
Honoree2: | Chris Williams |
Honor3: | Rookie of the Year |
Honoree3: | Ed Fryatt |
Prevseason: | 1997 |
Nextseason: | 1999 |
The 1998 Asian PGA Tour, titled as the 1998 Omega Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the fourth season of the Asian PGA Tour, one of the main professional golf tours in Asia (outside of Japan) alongside the long established Asia Golf Circuit.
It was the fourth season of the tour under a title sponsorship agreement with Omega SA, that was announced in September 1995.[1]
The following table lists official events during the 1998 season.[2] [3]
Date | Tournament | Host country | Purse (US$) | Winner | Other tours | Notes | |
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8 Mar | Myanmar | 200,000 | Taimur Hussain (1) | ||||
15 Mar | India | 300,000 | Firoz Ali (1) | New to Asian PGA Tour | |||
5 Apr | China | 200,000 | Chawalit Plaphol (1) | New tournament | |||
19 Apr | China | 400,000 | Ed Fryatt (1) | ||||
3 May | Macau | 200,000 | Satoshi Oide (1) | New tournament | |||
17 May | Guam | 200,000 | Jerry Smith (1) | ||||
24 May | South Korea | 150,000 | Robert Huxtable (1) | ||||
9 Aug | Malaysia | 150,000 | Simon Yates (1) | ||||
16 Aug | Malaysia | 200,000 | Chris Williams (1) | ||||
23 Aug | Singapore | 500,000 | Shaun Micheel (1) | ||||
20 Sep | South Korea | ₩350,000,000 | Kim Dae-sub (a) (1) | New to Asian PGA Tour | |||
18 Oct | Malaysia | 200,000 | Nico van Rensburg (2) | ||||
25 Oct | Singapore | 150,000 | Chris Williams (2) | New tournament | |||
1 Nov | Taiwan | 200,000 | Lu Wen-teh (1) | New tournament | |||
8 Nov | India | 200,000 | Jyoti Randhawa (1) | ||||
15 Nov | Thailand | 200,000 | James Kingston (1) | New to Asian PGA Tour | |||
29 Nov | Hong Kong | 300,000 | Kang Wook-soon (3) | ||||
6 Dec | Hong Kong | 500,000 | Kang Wook-soon (4) | ||||
13 Dec | China | 200,000 | Gerry Norquist (4) | Limited-field event |
The Order of Merit was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in U.S. dollars.[4]
Position | Player | Prize money ($) | |
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1 | 150,772 | ||
2 | 139,448 | ||
3 | 124,503 | ||
4 | 124,044 | ||
5 | 89,368 |