1974 Asia Golf Circuit

Golf tour season December 2023 1974 Asia Golf Circuit 1974 2 14 y – 1974 4 21 y 10 TWN Lu Liang-Huan (3) Order of Merit TWN Kuo Chie-Hsiung 1973 1975 The 1974 Asia Golf Circuit was the 13th season of the Asia Golf Circuit (formerly the Far East Circuit), the main professional golf tour in Asia since it was established in 1961. Changes for 1974 The circuit gained a new sponsor in 1974, General Ibnu Sutowo. Sutowi was head of the state-controlled Indonesian oil company, Pertamina, and president of the Indonesian Golf Association. In this latter role, Indonesia also joined the circuit, with the addition of the inaugural Indonesian Open expanding the schedule to ten tournaments for the first time. Schedule The following table lists official events during the 1974 season.John Player Golf Yearbook 1975 George Simms Queen Anne Press 1975 0362002134 128–135The World of Professional Golf 1975 Mark H. McCormack Mark McCormack Collins 1975 237–252, 419–427 0002119552Singapore Open golf richest in Asia now The Straits Times Singapore 24 December 1973 27 https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19731224-1.2.93.18 National Library Board 19 December 2023Golf 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. OthertoursJPN − PGA of Japan Tour. Notes 17 Feb Philippine Open Philippines 25,000 TWN Lu Liang-Huan (4) 24 Feb Hong Kong Open Hong Kong 30,000 TWN Lu Liang-Huan (5) 3 Mar Singapore Open Singapore 25,000 PHI 1936 Eleuterio Nival (2) 10 Mar Malaysian Open Malaysia 25,000 AUS Graham Marsh (4) 17 Mar Indonesia Open Indonesia 20,000 PHI 1936 Ben Arda (5) New tournament 24 Mar Thailand Open Thailand 15,000 JPN 1870 Toshiro Hitomi (1) 31 Mar Indian Open India 15,000 TWN Kuo Chie-Hsiung (1) 7 Apr Taiwan Open Taiwan 15,000 TWN Kuo Chie-Hsiung (2) 14 Apr Korea Open South Korea 15,000 KOR 1949 Cho Tae-woon (1) 21 Apr Sobu International Open Japan 50,000 TWN Lu Liang-Huan (6) JPN Order of Merit The Order of Merit was based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system.Lu cards a 70 to win Sobu Open The Straits Times Singapore 22 April 1974 27 https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19740422-1.2.127.1 National Library Board 19 December 2023 PositionPlayerPoints1 TWN Kuo Chie-Hsiung 1352 TWN Lu Liang-Huan 1223 PHI 1936 Ben Arda 86.14 AUS Graham Marsh 865 PHI 1936 Ireneo Legaspi 79 Notes References Category:Asia Golf Circuit Asia Golf Circuit Asia Golf Circuit