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1972 Asia Golf Circuit
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Golf tour season
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1972 Asia Golf Circuit 1972 2 24 y – 1972 4 23 y 9 TWN Hsieh Min-Nan (2) Order of Merit AUS Graham Marsh 1971 1973
The 1972 Asia Golf Circuit was the 11th season of the Asia Golf Circuit (formerly the Far East Circuit), the main professional golf tour in Asia since it was established in 1961.
Schedule
The following table lists official events during the 1972 season.John Player Golf Yearbook 1973 George Simms Queen Anne Press 1973 0362001278 60–65Asian circuit gets under way New Nation Singapore 24 February 1972 14 https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/newnation19720224-1.2.89 National Library Board 24 March 2020Golf Records, Facts and Champions Guinness Steel, Donald 1987 153–155 0851128475 https://archive.org/details/golfrecordsfacts0000stee/ Archive.org 16 December 2023 limited
Date Tournament Host country Purse(US$) Winnertotals The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Asia Golf Circuit events they had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Asia Golf Circuit members. Notes 27 Feb Philippine Open Philippines 15,000 JPN 1870 Hideyo Sugimoto (2) 5 Mar Singapore Open Singapore 15,000 JPN 1870 Takaaki Kono (3) 12 Mar Malaysian Open Malaysia 15,000 JPN 1870 Takashi Murakami (1) 19 Mar Indian Open India 15,000 AUS Brian Jones (1) 26 Mar Thailand Open Thailand 15,000 TWN Hsieh Min-Nan (1) 2 Apr Hong Kong Open Hong Kong 20,000 NZL Walter Godfrey (1) 9 Apr Taiwan Open Taiwan 15,000 JPN 1870 Haruo Yasuda (4) 16 Apr Korea Open South Korea 15,000 KOR 1949 Han Chang-sang (3) 23 Apr Sobu International Open Japan 30,000 TWN Hsieh Min-Nan (2) New tournament
Order of Merit
The Order of Merit was titled as the San Miguel Circuit Prize and was based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system.Circuit prize money doubled The Straits Times Singapore 6 March 1969 19 https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19690306-1.2.124.5 National Library Board 13 March 2020https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=MDQ-9Oe3GGUC&dat=19720424&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Marsh wins circuit prize The Age Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 24 April 1972 22 February 2020 14 (27 in paper) Google News Archive
PositionPlayerPoints1 AUS Graham Marsh 1292 TWN Hsieh Min-Nan 1223 NZL Walter Godfrey 1164 PHI 1936 Ben Arda 1005 KOR 1949 Han Chang-sang 89
Notes
References
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