2006 Asian Tour
The 2006 Asian Tour was the 12th 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$24 million and Jeev Milkha Singh of India set a new season's prize money record of $591,884.
Schedule[]
The list of results below includes one special event which did not count towards the money list (the HSBC Champions) and one team event (the Royal Trophy). The first event took place in December 2005. Prize funds shown in brackets do not count towards the money list.
The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Asian Tour events he had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Asian Tour members.[1]
| Date | Tournament | Host country | Purse (US$) |
Winner | OWGR points |
Other tours[a] |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Dec | Asia Japan Okinawa Open | Japan | 830,000 |  Tadahiro Takayama (1) |
14 | JPN | |
| 22 Jan | Pakistan Open | Pakistan | 200,000 |  Chris Rodgers (1) |
14 | New to Asian Tour | |
| 29 Jan | Commercialbank Qatar Masters | Qatar | 2,000,000 |  Henrik Stenson (n/a) |
44 | EUR | |
| 12 Feb | Johnnie Walker Classic | Australia | 2,300,000 |  Kevin Stadler (n/a) |
44 | ANZ, EUR | |
| 19 Feb | Maybank Malaysian Open | Malaysia | 1,210,000 |  Charlie Wi (7) |
20 | EUR | |
| 5 Mar | Enjoy Jakarta HSBC Indonesia Open | Indonesia | 1,000,000 | Simon Dyson (4) |
20 | EUR | |
| 12 Mar | OSIM Singapore Masters | Singapore | 1,000,000 |  Mardan Mamat (2) |
20 | EUR | |
| 19 Mar | TCL Classic | China | 1,000,000 | Johan Edfors (n/a) |
24 | EUR | |
| 16 Apr | Volvo China Open | China | 1,800,000 |  Jeev Milkha Singh (5) |
24 | EUR | |
| 23 Apr | BMW Asian Open | China | 1,800,000 |  Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño (n/a) |
30 | EUR | |
| 30 Apr | GS Caltex Maekyung Open | South Korea | 600,000 | Suk Jong-yul (1) |
14 | KOR | |
| 7 May | SK Telecom Open | South Korea | 600,000 |  Prom Meesawat (1) |
14 | KOR | |
| 14 May | Aamby Valley Asian Masters | India | 400,000 |  Hendrik Buhrmann (1) |
14 | New tournament | |
| 21 May | Macau Open | Macau | 300,000 |  Kane Webber (1) |
14 | ||
| 28 May | Philippine Open | Philippines | 200,000 | Scott Strange (2) |
14 | ||
| 4 Jun | Bangkok Airways Open | Thailand | 300,000 | Chawalit Plaphol (2) |
14 | ||
| 20 Aug | China | 200,000 | Chinnarat Phadungsil (1) |
14 | |||
| 27 Aug | Brunei Open | Brunei | 500,000 |  Wang Ter-chang (4) |
12 | ||
| 3 Sep | Pulai Springs Malaysian Masters | Malaysia | 300,000 | Anton Haig (1) |
14 | New tournament | |
| 10 Sep | Barclays Singapore Open | Singapore | 3,000,000 | Adam Scott (n/a) |
36 | ||
| 24 Sep | Kolon-Hana Bank Korea Open | South Korea | 750,000 | Yang Yong-eun (1) |
16 | KOR | |
| 1 Oct | Mercuries Taiwan Masters | Taiwan | 500,000 | Gaurav Ghei (2) |
14 | ||
| 8 Oct | Taiwan Open | Taiwan | 300,000 | Lin Wen-tang (1) |
14 | ||
| 15 Oct | Volkswagen Masters-China | China | 350,000 | Retief Goosen (n/a) |
18 | ||
| 22 Oct | Hero Honda Indian Open | India | 300,000 | Jyoti Randhawa (6) |
14 | ||
| 12 Nov | HSBC Champions | China | 5,000,000 | Yang Yong-eun (2) |
52 | AFR, ANZ, EUR | |
| 19 Nov | UBS Hong Kong Open | Hong Kong | 2,000,000 | José Manuel Lara (n/a) |
32 | EUR | |
| 10 Dec | Volvo Masters of Asia | Thailand | 700,000 | Thongchai Jaidee (8) |
20 |
- ^ AFR − Sunshine Tour; ANZ − PGA Tour of Australasia; EUR − European Tour; JPN − Japan Golf Tour; KOR − Korean Tour.
Order of Merit[]
| Rank | Player | Earnings (US$) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeev Milkha Singh |
591,884 |
| 2 | Thongchai Jaidee |
444,736 |
| 3 | Prom Meesawat |
392,671 |
| 4 | Charlie Wi |
369,880 |
| 5 | Andrew Buckle |
348,295 |
| 6 | Jyoti Randhawa |
301,728 |
| 7 |  Juvic Pagunsan |
291,847 |
| 8 | Shiv Kapur |
271,343 |
| 9 | Thaworn Wiratchant |
263,287 |
| 10 | Brad Kennedy |
263,218 |
There is a complete list on the official site here.
External links[]
- 2006 in golf
- Asian Tour