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2017 Asian Tour

professional golf tour season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ28128633 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2017 Asian Tour is the 23rd 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 2017 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 based on prize money won during the season, calculated in U.S. dollars. The leading player on the Order of Merit earned status to play on the 2018 European Tour.

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The public source identifies “2017 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 practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 1995, 2018—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 “2017 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.