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1969 Asia Golf Circuit
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Golf tour season
December 2023
1969 Asia Golf Circuit 1969 2 27 y – 1969 4 13 y 7 Order of Merit TWN Hsieh Yung-yo 1968 1970
The 1969 Asia Golf Circuit was the eighth 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 1969 season.Golf 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$) Winnertotals The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Asia Golf Circuit events they had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Asia Golf Circuit members. Notes 2 Mar Philippine Open Philippines 10,000 JPN 1870 Haruo Yasuda (1) 9 Mar Singapore Open Singapore 10,000 JPN 1870 Tomio Kamata (1) 16 Mar Malaysian Open Malaysia 15,000 JPN 1870 Takaaki Kono (1) 23 Mar Thailand Open Thailand 12,000 TWN Hsieh Yung-yo (7) 30 Mar Hong Kong Open Hong Kong 16,500 JPN 1870 Teruo Sugihara (1) 6 Apr Taiwan Open Taiwan 10,000 JPN 1870 Hideyo Sugimoto (1) 13 Apr Yomiuri International Japan 15,000 ENG Guy Wolstenholme (1)
Unofficial events
The following events were sanctioned by the Asia Golf Circuit, but did not carry official money, nor were wins official.
DateTournamentHost countryPurse($)WinnerNotes 20 Apr Indian Open India PHI 1936 Ben Arda
Order of Merit
The Order of Merit 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?id=vBZVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bpMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1101%2C2377240 Open to British golfer The Age Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 14 April 1969 20 Google News Archive 13 March 2020
PositionPlayerPoints1 TWN Hsieh Yung-yo 892 ENG Guy Wolstenholme 623 TWN Hsu Chi-san 58T4 AUS David Graham TWN Kuo Chie-Hsiung
Notes
References
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