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.

Tournament results

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.

DatesTournamentPrize
fund (US$)
WinnerOWGR
pts
Notes
Dec 15-18Asia Japan Okinawa Open830,000Japan Tadahiro Takayama (1)14Co-sanctioned by the Japan Golf Tour
Jan 5-8Royal Trophy(1,500,000)Europen/aTeam event: Asia v Europe
Jan 19-22Pakistan Open200,000England Chris Rodgers (1)14
Jan 26-29Commercialbank Qatar Masters2,000,000Sweden Henrik Stenson (n/a)44Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Feb 9-12Johnnie Walker Classic2,300,000United States Kevin Stadler (n/a)44Co-sanctioned by the European and Australasian tours
Feb 16-19Maybank Malaysian Open1,210,000South Korea Charlie Wi (7)20Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Mar 2-5Enjoy Jakarta HSBC Indonesia Open1,000,000England Simon Dyson (4)20Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Mar 9-12OSIM Singapore Masters1,000,000Singapore Mardan Mamat (2)20Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Mar 16-19TCL Classic1,000,000Sweden Johan Edfors (n/a)24Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Apr 13-16Volvo China Open1,800,000India Jeev Milkha Singh (5)24Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Apr 20-23BMW Asian Open1,800,000Spain Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño (n/a)30Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Apr 27-30GS Caltex Maekyung Open600,000South Korea Suk Jong-yul (1)14
May 4-7SK Telecom Open600,000Thailand Prom Meesawat (1)14
May 11-14Aamby Valley Asian Masters400,000South Africa Hendrik Buhrmann (1)14
May 18-21Macau Open300,000Australia Kane Webber (1)14
May 25-28Philippine Open200,000Australia Scott Strange (2)14
June 1-4Bangkok Airways Open300,000Thailand Chawalit Plaphol (2)14
Aug 17-20Crowne Plaza Open200,000Thailand Chanarat Phadungsil (1)14
Aug 24-27Brunei Open500,000China Wang Ter-chang (4)12
Aug 31-Sept 3Pulai Springs Malaysian Masters300,000South Africa Anton Haig (1)14
Sep 7-10Barclays Singapore Open3,000,000Australia Adam Scott (n/a)36Richest sole-sanctioned event
Sep 21-24Kolon-Hana Bank Korea Open750,000South Korea Yang Yong-eun (1)16
Sep 28-Oct 1Mercuries Taiwan Masters500,000India Gaurav Ghei (2)14
Oct 5-8Taiwan Open300,000China Lin Wen-tang (1)14
Oct 12-15Volkswagen Masters-China350,000Thailand Retief Goosen (n/a)18
Oct 19-22Hero Honda Indian Open300,000India Jyoti Randhawa (6)14
Nov 9-12HSBC Champions(5,000,000)South Korea Yang Yong-eun (2)52Co-sanctioned by the European, Australasian and Sunshine tours
Nov 16-19UBS Hong Kong Open2,000,000Spain José Manuel Lara (n/a)32Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Dec 7-10Volvo Masters of Asia700,000Thailand Thongchai Jaidee (8)20Limited to top 60 on Order of Merit

Source: here

Leading money winners

Rank Player Country Earnings (US$)
1 Jeev Milkha Singh  India 591,884
2 Thongchai Jaidee  Thailand 444,736
3 Prom Meesawat  Thailand 392,671
4 Charlie Wi  South Korea 369,880
5 Andrew Buckle  Australia 348,295
6 Jyoti Randhawa  India 301,728
7 Juvic Pagunsan  Philippines 291,847
8 Shiv Kapur  India 271,343
9 Thaworn Wiratchant  Thailand 263,287
10 Brad Kennedy  Australia 263,218

There is a complete list on the official site here.

External links

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