2008 Asian Tour

The table below shows the 2008 schedule.

The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Asian Tour events he had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Asian Tour members.

Only 50% of the prize money from major championships and World Golf Championships are counted towards the Order of Merit, but are not shown below.

Dates	Tournament	Country	Prize fund (US$)	Winner	OWGR pts	Notes
Feb 7-10	Emaar-MGF Indian Masters	India	2,500,000	Shiv Chawrasia (1)	26	New tournament, co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Feb 14-17	Enjoy Jakarta Astro Indonesia Open	Indonesia	1,200,000	Felipe Aguilar (n/a)	20	Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Feb 20-23	SAIL Open Golf Championship at Jaypee Greens	India	400,000	Mark Brown (1)	14	New tournament
Feb 28- Mar 4	Johnnie Walker Classic	India	2,500,000	Mark Brown (2)	38	Co-sanctioned by the European and Australasian tours
Mar 6-9	Maybank Malaysian Open	Malaysia	2,000,000	Arjun Atwal (7)	24	Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Mar 13-16	Ballantine's Championship	South Korea	2,900,000	Graeme McDowell (n/a)	28	New tournament, co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Mar 20-23	Asian Tour International	Thailand	300,000	Lin Wen-tang (3)	14	New tournament
Apr 3-6	Philippine Open	The Philippines	300,000	Angelo Que (2)	14
Apr 17-20	Volvo China Open	China	2,000,000	Damien McGrane (n/a)	20	Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Apr 24-27	BMW Asian Open	China	2,300,000	Darren Clarke (n/a)	32	Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
May 1-4	GS Caltex Maekyung Open	South Korea	600,000	Hwang Inn-choon (1)	14
May 8-11	Pine Valley Beijing Open	China	1,000,000	Hiroyuki Fujita (n/a)	16	Co-sanctioned by the Japan Golf Tour
June 5-8	Bangkok Airways Open	Thailand	300,000	Thaworn Wiratchant (10)	14
June 26-29	Singha Thailand PGA Championship	Thailand	500,000	Mo Joong-kyung (2)	14	New tournament
Aug 6-9	Worldwide Selangor Masters	Malaysia	310,000	Ben Leong (1)	14	New tournament
Aug 21-24	Brunei Open	Brunei	300,000	Rick Kulacz (1)	14
Aug 28-31	Pertamina Indonesia President Invitational	Indonesia	350,000	Scott Hend (1)	14
Sep 18-21	Mercuries Taiwan Masters	Taiwan	500,000	Lu Wen-teh (5)	14
Sep 25-28	Asia-Pacific Panasonic Open	Japan	1,850,000	Hideto Tanihara (n/a)	20	New tournament, co-sanctioned by the Japan Golf Tour
Oct 2-5	Kolon-Hana Bank Korea Open	South Korea	1,000,000	Bae Sang-moon (2)	18
Oct 9-12	Hero Honda Indian Open	India	1,000,000	Liang Wenchong (2)	14
Oct 16-19	Midea China Classic	China	500,000	Noh Seung-yul (1)	14
Oct 23-26	Macau Open	Macau	500,000	David Gleeson (2)	14
Oct 30-Nov 2	Iskandar Johor Open	Malaysia	500,000	Retief Goosen (n/a)	14
Nov 6-9	HSBC Champions	China	5,000,000	Sergio García (n/a)	52	Co-sanctioned by the European, Australasian and Sunshine tours. 50% of prize money counts towards Order of Merit.
Nov 13-16	Barclays Singapore Open	Singapore	5,000,000	Jeev Milkha Singh (6)	38	Richest sole-sanctioned event
Nov 20-23	UBS Hong Kong Open	Hong Kong, China	2,250,000	Lin Wen-tang (4)	32	Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Dec 4-7	Hana Bank Vietnam Masters	Vietnam	500,000	Thongchai Jaidee (9)	14
Dec 11-14	Johnnie Walker Cambodian Open	Cambodia	300,000	Thongchai Jaidee (10)	14
Dec 18-21	Volvo Masters of Asia	Thailand	750,000	Lam Chih Bing (1)	20	Limited to top 65 on the Order of Merit

Source:

Rank	Player	Country	Earnings (US$)
1	Jeev Milkha Singh	India	1,452,701.69
2	Lin Wen-tang	Taiwan	844,734.81
3	Mark Brown	New Zealand	778,037.94
4	Liang Wenchong	China	521,428.24
5	David Gleeson	Australia	483,120.80
6	Shiv Chawrasia	India	482,293.06
7	Bae Sang-moon	South Korea	419,952.68
8	Thaworn Wiratchant	Thailand	404,555.27
9	Scott Strange	Australia	380,678.35
10	Noh Seung-yul	South Korea	345,823.92

There is a complete list on the official site here.

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