OneAsia Tour

The OneAsia Tour was a men's professional golf tour based in the Asia-Pacific region. The tour was founded in 2009 as a joint venture between the PGA Tour of Australasia, the China Golf Association, the Korean Golf Association and the Korean PGA. The Japan Golf Tour was invited to participate in the project in 2012 and had co-sanctioned the Indonesia Open, Indonesia PGA Championship and Thailand Open. The OneAsia Tour was seen as a rival to the longer established Asian Tour, with which it had poor relations. From 2010 to 2017, tournaments on the OneAsia Tour were awarded Official World Golf Ranking points.

OneAsia Tour
SportGolf
Founded2009
FounderPGA Tour of Australasia
China Golf Association
Korean Golf Association
Korean PGA
Inaugural season2009
Ceased2018
CountryBased in Asia
Most titlesTournament wins:
Liang Wenchong (4)
Related
competitions
ASEAN PGA Tour

Having had a ten tournament schedule in each of its first few seasons, the tour's fortunes began to decline. Being reliant on co-sanctioning arrangements to fill out the calendar; only one event was not co-sanctioned in 2013 and 2014. Tour members were afforded a limited number of places in the tournaments. In 2015, there were just seven tournaments, all co-sanctioned with other tours. In 2016, there were just four, and one fewer in 2017. Early in 2018, having not hosted a sole-sanctioned event for three years, the tour lost its right to offer world ranking points.

Early 2018 saw an extensive restructuring of the organisation with a new management team put in place in an attempt to revive the tour. A Qualifying school was organised, but due to the lack of status of the tour, having lost world ranking points and without any calendar of tournaments, there were less than 20 entrants. To start the new season OneAsia co-sanctioned the Solaire Philippine Open and had plans for a further four tournaments in 2018, but these were not played. One tournament was scheduled for 2019, but ultimately no tournaments were played.

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