Asian Tour Yearbook - 2022

A little over two years after play stopped on the Asian Development Tour (ADT) because of the global pandemic it was finally able to restart at the Gurugram Challenge in India, in March of 2022, and any concerns about what lay ahead for the Asian Tour’s secondary circuit were quickly laid to rest when a rich schedule full of events emerged. While the Asian Tour experienced an outstanding comeback year, so too did the ADT as it staged a total of 17 events boasting overall prizemoney of US$1.762 million. After India, which was won by American Dodge Kemmer, the Tour staged four consecutive events on Phuket Island in Thailand, called the ‘Beautiful Swing Thailand’ and jointly sanctioned with the MENA Tour, held six in Indonesia, visited Saudi Arabia for the first time for two ground-breaking tournaments, while Chinese-Taipei, Vietnam and Malaysia all staged one event each. And it all came to a thrilling conclusion at the Taifong Open in Chinese-Taipei, played over Christmas, boasting a lucrative purse of US$200,000 – the joint richest event of the season, along with the PIF Saudi Open. Thailand’s Suteepat Prateeptienchai dominated the season with three masterful victories – the Blue Canyon Open, and the BNI Ciputra Golfpreneur Tournament and Combiphar Players Championship, both in Indonesia – to earn a battlefield promotion onto the Asian Tour for the remainder of the season. The last player to achieve that feat was Korean star Joohyung Kim in 2019. Suteepat, who finished joint second in Taifong, secured the ADT Order of Merit title with a haul to US$86,448 – helped also by the fact he 137 Naraajie E. Ramadhanputra (RIGHT) and Chen Guxin (LEFT) were both double winners in 2022. Asian Development Tour rebounds with rich schedule Tour staged 17 events boasting overall prizemoney of US$1.762 million Fullcolor