Asian Tour Yearbook: 2023

SCRAMBLING POS PLAYER EVENTS ROUNDS PERCENTAGE 1 Poom SAKSANSIN (THA) 18 64 67.24% 2 Wade ORMSBY (AUS) 11 35 67.01% 3 David PUIG (ESP) 9 36 66.67% 4 HUNG Chien-yao (TPE) 17 54 66.10% 5 Mingyu CHO (KOR) 14 52 64.84% 6 Jazz JANEWATTANANOND (THA) 12 39 64.80% 7 James PIOT (USA) 7 24 64.24% 8 Bio KIM (KOR) 15 46 63.77% 9 Miguel TABUENA (PHI) 16 59 63.29% 10 S.S.P. CHAWRASIA (IND) 17 45 63.10% Advisers as The Tournament of the Year. “The Tournament of the Year Award is one of the Asian Tour’s most prestigious accolades – especially as it is an emphatic vote of confidence from our members,” added Cho. “We first staged our season-opening event at the PIF Saudi International powered by SoftBank Investment Advisers in 2022, when it received rave reviews from our players. It was the perfect start to the year, and this was very much the case in 2023.” On The International Series – 10 elite level events that are integrated into the Asian Tour schedule and provide a pathway onto the LIV Golf League – it was the Hong Kong Open that got the nod as The International Series Tournament of the Year. And equally impressively it was that event’s venue, the Hong Kong Golf Club, which was the Players’ Choice Course of the Year, along with Al Mouj Golf – the popular club on the stunning Muscat coastline that hosts the International Series Oman. With regard to the Asian Tour Rookie of the Year Award there was only ever one candidate, Taichi Kho. Winning the World City Championship at Hong Kong Golf Club saw him become the first player from Hong Kong to win on the Asian Tour, while he also shone in the Volvo China Open, chipping in for an eagle on 18 to tie for second. Those performances helped him end the year in ninth place on the Merit list to complete one of the finest ever rookie seasons. He also claimed the gold medal in the Asian Games, which was another first for Hong Kong, Statistically speaking, the players who featured on the leaderboard across the season also dominated the numbers. Spaniard David Puig had the best stoke average with 68.25; Ogletree, not surprisingly, topped Greens in Regulation on 77.02%; and Phachara Khongwatmai from Thailand had the measure of the greens with a medium of 160 A ND THE AWA R D GOE S TOO . . .