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PGA Tour of Australasia
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event2017 PGA Tour of Australasia
Formerly PGA Tour of Australia
Sport Golf
Founded 1973 (renamed PGA Tour of Australasia in 1991)
Director Wayne Grady
Countries  Australia
 New Zealand
 Fiji
Most titles Australia Kel Nagle (61)
TV partner(s) Seven Network (Australia)
Fox Sports (Australia)
Sky Sport (New Zealand)
TV3 (New Zealand)
Official website ISPS Handa PGA Tour of Australasia

 

The PGA Tour of Australasia, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the ISPS Handa PGA Tour of Australasia, is a professional golf tour for men. Official events on the tour count for World Golf Ranking points. The tour was formed in 1973 as the PGA Tour of Australia and adopted its current name in 1991.

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 European Tour, typically returning home for two or three events each year or even not at all. Therefore, the Australasian Tour is a feeder for the larger tours. Some of the leading events are co-sanctioned by the 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 Australian PGA Championship, the Australian Masters and the New Zealand Open.

The PGA Tour of Australasia's development tour was the Von Nida Tour (named after Australian golfer Norman Von Nida) which featured around ten events with purses in the region of A$100,000 each. The main tour events took place in the Southern Hemisphere summer, that is late one calendar year and early the next, while the Von Nida Tour events mainly took place in the local spring and autumn. However the money list was calculated for calendar years. From 2009, the Von Nida Tour has been merged into the PGA Tour of Australasia Tour.

 


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