2007 Asian Tour

The 2007 Asian Tour was the 13th 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$27 million and Liang Wen-Chong became the first golfer from mainland China to top the Order of Merit.

Tournament results

The table below shows the 2007 schedule. It includes one special event which does not count towards the money list (the HSBC Champions).

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.

Dates	Tournament	Country	Prize fund (US$)	Winner	OWGR pts	Notes
Jan 18-21	Pakistan Open	Pakistan	300,000	Airil Rizman (1)	14
Jan 25-28	Commercialbank Qatar Masters	Qatar	2,200,000	Retief Goosen (n/a)	48	Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Feb 1-4	Philippine Open	Philippines	300,000	Frankie Miñoza (1)	14
Feb 8-11	Maybank Malaysian Open	Malaysia	1,290,000	Peter Hedblom (n/a)	26	Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Feb 15-18	Enjoy Jakarta Astro Indonesia Open	Indonesia	1,000,000	Mikko Ilonen (n/a)	20	Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Mar 1-4	Johnnie Walker Classic	Thailand	2,440,000	Anton Haig (2)	40	Co-sanctioned by the European and Australasian tours
Mar 8-11	Clariden Leu Singapore Masters	Singapore	1,100,000	Liang Wen-Chong (1)	30	Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Mar 15-18	TCL Classic	China	1,000,000	Chapchai Nirat (1)	20	Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Mar 22-25	Motorola International Bintan	Indonesia	350,000	Jason Knutzon (2)	14	New tournament
Apr 12-15	Volvo China Open	China	2,000,000	Markus Brier (n/a)	20	Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Apr 19-22	BMW Asian Open	China	2,300,000	Raphaël Jacquelin (n/a)	32	Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Apr 26-29	Pine Valley Beijing Open	China	500,000	Gaurav Ghei (3)	14	New tournament
May 3-6	GS Caltex Maekyung Open	South Korea	600,000	Kim Kyung-tae (1)	14
May 17-20	Macau Open	Macau	300,000	Lu Wen-teh (3)	14
May 24-27	SK Telecom Open	South Korea	600,000	Bae Sang-moon (1)	14
June 7-10	Bangkok Airways Open	Thailand	300,000	Lee Sung (1)	14	New tournament
Aug 23-26	Iskandar Johor Open	Malaysia	300,000	Artemio Murakami (1)	14	New tournament
Aug 30 - Sep 2	Brunei Open	Brunei	500,000	Lin Wen-tang (2)	14
Sep 13-16	Midea China Classic	China	400,000	Thaworn Wiratchant (9)	14	New tournament
Sep 20-23	Mercuries Taiwan Masters	Taiwan	500,000	Lu Wen-teh (4)	14
Oct 4-7	Kolon-Hana Bank Korea Open	South Korea	1,000,000	Vijay Singh (n/a)	14
Oct 11-14	Hero Honda Indian Open	India	500,000	Jyoti Randhawa (7)	14
Oct 25-28	Pertamina Indonesia President Invitational	Indonesia	500,000	Juvic Pagunsan (1)	14	New tournament
Nov 1-4	Barclays Singapore Open	Singapore	4,000,000	Ángel Cabrera (n/a)	40	Richest sole-sanctioned event
Nov 8-11	HSBC Champions	China	(5,000,000)	Phil Mickelson (n/a)	52	Co-sanctioned by the European, Australasian and Sunshine tours
Nov 15-18	UBS Hong Kong Open	Hong Kong, China	2,000,000	Miguel Ángel Jiménez (n/a)	36	Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Nov 22-25	Hana Bank Vietnam Masters	Vietnam	500,000	Chapchai Nirat (2)	14	New tournament
Nov 29 - 2 Dec	Johnnie Walker Cambodian Open	Cambodia	300,000	Bryan Saltus (1)	14	New tournament
Dec 6-9	Volvo Masters of Asia	Thailand	750,000	Prayad Marksaeng (6)	20	Limited to top 60 on the Order of Merit

Source:

Leading money winners

Rank	Player	Country	Earnings (US$)
1	Liang Wen-chong	China	532,590
2	Chapchai Nirat	Thailand	442,325
3	Anton Haig	South Africa	427,685
4	Scott Hend	Australia	363,109
5	Prayad Marksaeng	Thailand	348,623
6	Simon Yates	Scotland	330,808
7	Prom Meesawat	Thailand	311,308
8	Thongchai Jaidee	Thailand	278,896
9	Lu Wen-teh	Taiwan	265,909
10	Gaurav Ghei	India	261,057

There is a complete list on the official site here.

External links

• The Asian Tour's official English language site