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2008 Asian Tour

professional golf tour season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 20, 2024
Entity authorityQ4610526 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2008 Asian Tour was the 14th season of the modern Asian Tour (formerly the Asian PGA Tour), the main professional golf tour in Asia (outside of Japan) since it was established in 1995.

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2008 season.

Unofficial events

The following events were sanctioned by the Asian Tour, but did not carry official money, nor were wins official.

Order of Merit

The Order of Merit was titled as the UBS Order of Merit and was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in U.S. dollars.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “2008 Asian Tour” as professional golf tour season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Asian, Tour and professional.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Asian, Tour and professional providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “2008 Asian Tour” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.