Year: | 2006 |
Tour: | Asian Tour |
Regular Season: | – |
No Of Events: | 27 |
Most Wins: | Yang Yong-eun (2) |
Honor1: | Order of Merit |
Honoree1: | Jeev Milkha Singh |
Honor2: | Players' Player of the Year |
Honoree2: | Jeev Milkha Singh |
Honor3: | Rookie of the Year |
Honoree3: | Juvic Pagunsan |
Prevseason: | 2005 |
Nextseason: | 2007 |
The 2006 Asian Tour was the 12th season of the modern Asian Tour (formerly the Asian PGA Tour), the main professional golf tour in Asia (outside of Japan) since it was established in 1995.
The following table lists official events during the 2006 season.[1]
Date | Tournament | Host country | Purse (US$) | Winner | OWGR points | Other tours | Notes | |
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18 Dec | Japan | ¥100,000,000 | Tadahiro Takayama (n/a) | 14 | ||||
22 Jan | Pakistan | 200,000 | Chris Rodgers (1) | 14 | New to Asian Tour | |||
29 Jan | Qatar | 2,000,000 | Henrik Stenson (n/a) | 44 | ||||
12 Feb | Australia | £1,250,000 | Kevin Stadler (n/a) | 44 | ||||
19 Feb | Malaysia | 1,250,000 | Charlie Wi (7) | 20 | ||||
5 Mar | Indonesia | 1,000,000 | Simon Dyson (4) | 20 | ||||
12 Mar | Singapore | 1,000,000 | Mardan Mamat (2) | 20 | ||||
19 Mar | China | 1,000,000 | Johan Edfors (n/a) | 24 | ||||
16 Apr | China | 1,800,000 | Jeev Milkha Singh (5) | 24 | ||||
23 Apr | China | 1,800,000 | Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño (n/a) | 30 | ||||
30 Apr | South Korea | ₩600,000,000 | Suk Jong-yul (1) | 14 | ||||
7 May | South Korea | ₩600,000,000 | Prom Meesawat (1) | 14 | ||||
14 May | India | 400,000 | Hendrik Buhrmann (1) | 14 | New tournament | |||
21 May | Macau | 300,000 | Kane Webber (1) | 14 | ||||
28 May | Philippines | 200,000 | Scott Strange (2) | 14 | ||||
4 Jun | Thailand | 300,000 | Chawalit Plaphol (2) | 14 | ||||
20 Aug | China | 200,000 | Chinnarat Phadungsil (2) | 14 | ||||
27 Aug | Brunei | 500,000 | Wang Ter-chang (4) | 12 | ||||
3 Sep | Malaysia | 300,000 | Anton Haig (1) | 14 | New tournament | |||
10 Sep | Singapore | 3,000,000 | Adam Scott (n/a) | 36 | ||||
24 Sep | South Korea | ₩700,000,000 | Yang Yong-eun (1) | 16 | ||||
1 Oct | Taiwan | 500,000 | Gaurav Ghei (2) | 14 | ||||
8 Oct | Taiwan | 300,000 | Lin Wen-tang (1) | 14 | ||||
15 Oct | China | 350,000 | Retief Goosen (n/a) | 18 | ||||
22 Oct | India | 300,000 | Jyoti Randhawa (6) | 14 | ||||
19 Nov | Hong Kong | 2,000,000 | José Manuel Lara (n/a) | 32 | ||||
10 Dec | Thailand | 700,000 | Thongchai Jaidee (8) | 20 |
The following events were sanctioned by the Asian Tour, but did not carry official money, nor were wins official.
The Order of Merit was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in U.S. dollars.[2] [3]
Position | Player | Prize money ($) | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 591,884 | ||
2 | 444,736 | ||
3 | 392,672 | ||
4 | 369,881 | ||
5 | 348,296 |