Golf Tours - PGA Tour of
Australasia
The PGA Tour of Australasia is a
prominent golf tour for men. Official events on the tour count for World
Golf Ranking points.
Most of the leading players on the tour are Australian, with a smaller
domestic contingent from New Zealand, but players from many other
countries all over the world also participate. The very best
Australasian players devote most of their time to the PGA Tour or the
PGA European Tour, typically returning home for two or three events each
year or even not at all. Therefore Australasian Tour is a feeder for the
larger tours. Four or five of the leading events of each season are
co-sanctioned by PGA Tour or the PGA European Tour in order to encourage
higher ranked players to enter and to attract more sponsorship. Players
with a background on the tour who have reached the world top 20 since
the turn of the Millennium include Steve Elkington and Adam Scott.
The leading tournaments on the tour include the Australian Open, the ANZ
Championship and the Heineken Classic.
The PGA Tour of Australasia's development tour is the Von Nida Tour
which features around ten events with purses of around one hundred
thousand Australian Dollars each.
From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGA_Tour_of_Australasia
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