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Selected by a panel comprising the PGA European Tour, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St.Andrews, and the Association of Golf Writers. Seve Ballesteros Award: 2008 Selected by a ballot of tour members. Founded as the European Tour's Players' Player of the Year Award, and renamed in honour of Ballesteros in 2017.
The tour is recognised as being founded in 1973 when the PGA of Australia instituted an Order of Merit. [2] Despite always including at least one tournament in New Zealand, the tour was known as the PGA Tour of Australia until it adopted its current name in 1991 following the inclusion of three events in Asia. [3]
The Order of Merit was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Australian dollars. [5] The leading player on the Order of Merit earned status to play on the 2022 European Tour (DP World Tour).
The Order of Merit was based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The top three players on the Order of Merit earned status to play on the 2025 European Tour (DP World Tour).
In October 2012, the PGA Tour acquired the Canadian Tour, renaming it PGA Tour Canada effective November 1, 2012, for first use in the 2013 season. Under the new system, the top five players on the PGA Tour Canada Order of Merit earn Web.com Tour cards, with the money leader fully exempt and those 2nd-5th conditionally exempt.
The Asian PGA was formed in July 1994 at a meeting in Hong Kong attended by PGA representatives from eight countries. The first season of the APGA Omega Tour, as it was known for sponsorship reasons, was played in 1995 and within a few years it had supplanted the existing tour in the region, the Asia Golf Circuit that was run by the Asia Pacific Golf Confederation, as the leading golf tour in ...
The Order of Merit was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Australian dollars. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The leading player on the Order of Merit earned status to play on the 2019 European Tour .
The top five finishers on the Order of Merit at the end of the season received promotion to the Korn Ferry Tour. In January 2014, PGA Tour China announced qualifying procedures and a 12-event season to begin in April.