Asian Tour Yearbook: 2023

POS PLAYER EVENTS ROUNDS AVERAGE DRIVING DISTANCE AND THE AWARD GOES TO … T ournament champions were not the only winners in 2023 as once again players and venues were rewarded for their important contributions to the season through other accolades. Andy Ogletree’s dominant 2023 season earned him arguably the most- coveted award of them all, the stamp of approval by his peers, as he received the Kyi Hla Han Award for the Player of the Year on the Asian Tour. The American won both the Asian Tour Order of Merit (OOM) title, as well as The International Series OOM, in runaway fashion and was the overwhelming choice for the Kyi Hla Han Award – after a final count of a players’ DRIVING ACCURACY poll was conducted. It was the first year that the award had been named after Kyi Hla Han, the Asian Tour’s former OOM champion who later became the regional circuit’s Executive Chairman, making this all the more significant for Ogletree. Said Cho Minn Thant, Commissioner & CEO, Asian Tour: “It was a wonderful year for Andy, fittingly coming during the season when we named the prestigious Player’s Player of the Year Award after one of the Asian Tour’s most-celebrated luminaries, Kyi Hla Han.” The Asian Tour membership also cast their vote in favour of the star-studded season-opening PIF Saudi International powered by Softbank Investment 1 Gaganjeet BHULLAR (IND) 19 64 81.09% 2 David DRYSDALE (SCO) 16 51 80.14% 3 HUNG Chien-yao (TPE) 17 54 80.05% 4 Ajeetesh SANDHU (IND) 16 50 74.28% 5 Karandeep KOCHHAR (IND) 19 60 73.51% 6 Terry PILKADARIS (AUS) 20 57 72.61% 7 Miguel CARBALLO (ARG) 23 67 72.27% 8 Runchanapong YOUPRAYONG (THA) 10 25 72.13% 9 Matt KILLEN (ENG) 14 40 71.68% 10 Poom SAKSANSIN (THA) 18 64 71.64% POS PLAYER EVENTS ROUNDS FAIRWAYS HITS 1 Seungtaek LEE (KOR) 17 54 326.98 2 Sarit SUWANNARUT (THA) 17 47 320.69 3 Dodge KEMMER (USA) 18 59 319.64 4 David PUIG (ESP) 9 36 319.46 5 WANG Wei-hsuan (TPE) 16 48 317.31 6 Chapchai NIRAT (THA) 16 53 314.57 7 Bjorn HELLGREN (SWE) 19 65 312.75 8 Micah Lauren SHIN (USA) 17 55 311.94 9 BAI Zhengkai (CHN) 13 38 311.82 10 Denwit BORIBOONSUB (THA) 10 28 309.35 DRIVING DISTANCE 159