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:
Current sports event 2020–22 Asian Development Tour
SportGolf
Founded2010
Inaugural season2010
CountriesBased in Asia
Most titlesTournament wins:
7: Thailand Pavit Tangkamolprasert
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.

Schedule by year

The last full season was in 2019 when 19 events were played. Only one tournament was held in 2020, the Boonchu Ruangkit Championship, in January, an event co-sanctioned with the All Thailand Golf Tour. The remainder of the season was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tour resumed playing at the Gurugram Challenge in late March 2022, co-sanctioned with the Professional Golf Tour of India.

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$)
2019191,457,000
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
SeasonWinnerPrize money (US$)
2020–22Thailand Suteepat Prateeptienchai86,449
2019Japan Naoki Sekito50,942
2018Argentina Miguel Ángel Carballo43,378
2017Thailand Pannakorn Uthaipas55,859
2016United States Johannes Veerman58,662
2015United States Casey O'Toole55,286
2014Thailand Pavit Tangkamolprasert68,975
2013Malaysia Nicholas Fung43,998
2012Philippines Jay Bayron34,310
2011United States Jonathan Moore29,580
2010Malaysia S. Siva Chandhran27,969

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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