The Asian Development Tour, founded in 2010, is a professional golf tour. It is the development tour for the

Asian Tour The Asian Tour is the principal men's professional golf tour in Asia except for Japan, which has its own Japan Golf Tour, which is also a full member of the International Federation of PGA Tours. Official money events on the tour count for ...

, with a relationship analogous to the Web.com Tour to the

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and the

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to the

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. Players who fail to earn Asian Tour cards through qualifying school may play on the tour. The top five players on the Order of Merit (money list) at the end of the year will earn an Asian Tour card for the following season. Beginning in 2013, tournaments carry

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points, with a minimum of six points to the winner and points to the top six plus ties. Most of the tournaments are in

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, and

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. Several of the tournaments are co-sanctioned with the Professional Golf of Malaysia Tour and the

All Thailand Golf Tour The All Thailand Golf Tour (or simply as ATGT) is the main professional golf tour played by both men and women in Thailand. All Thailand Golf Tour office is headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand. Originally the TPC Tour, it adopted the name All Thai ...

. The ADT has a 36-hole cut of fifty plus ties. For the 2014 ADT season, the ADT changed its policy to award Asian Tour cards to the top five players on the ADT Order of Merit, up from three in previous seasons. Should an ADT player finish within the top 63 on the Asian Tour's Order of Merit, the next ADT golfer is promoted.

Schedule by year

The last full season was in 2019 when 19 events were played. Only one tournament was held in 2020, the Boonchu Ruangkit Championship, in January, an event co-sanctioned with the

. The remainder of the season was cancelled because of the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified ...

. The tour resumed playing at the Gurugram Challenge in late March 2022, co-sanctioned with the

Professional Golf Tour of India The Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI), currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Tata Steel Professional Golf Tour of India, is a professional golf tour for men based in India. The tour was formed in 2006, as the successor to the Indian ...

. The table below summarises the development of the tour. For some tournaments, the official purse is in local currency instead of

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s. The Order of Merit is calculated in U.S. dollars.

Order of Merit winners

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References

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