Corporate Profile
Overview
OneAsia is a centralized professional tournament pathway for elite golfers across the Asia-Pacific with an aim to maximize playing opportunities for the best players across the region.
The mission of OneAsia is not just to allow the region's best players to gain access to more events, but to ultimately provide them with an alternative pathway to the PGA Tour and the European Tour in the long term, thus retaining their talent in the region without compromising their development.
OneAsia harnesses the strengths of the region, bringing together the very best in golfing talent, drawing on combined potential of commercial partners, and pooling the resources of tournament expertise from all over Asia-Pacific for impeccably run events on one consolidated platform.
The pathway is entirely inclusive to all leading players across the region, automatically providing them with the opportunity to further their potential on home ground. Players will benefit from OneAsia through an increased number of quality events and prize money, focused media coverage, the potential for added revenue and a viable career pathway right here in Asia.
Yesterday to Tomorrow
Following many years of discussion, OneAsia was launched to provide this consolidated pathway for the region's best golfers. Five events were scheduled for the inaugural year in 2009, conducted in China, Korea and Australia. The first OneAsia tournament teed off in April of 2009 at the Volvo China Open, where victory went to Australian player Scott Strange.
Today - after just one year - The OneAsia tournament schedule has grown to a robust 11 events, all offering a minimum US$1 million in prize money. Of these 11 events, 10 remain full field OneAsia tournaments purely for the leading golfers across the region. OneAsia remains absolutely committed to further growth, the long-term goal of which will be to allow the best golfers in the world to make a professional career - and a home - out of Asia.
The OneAsia Structure
OneAsia is a non-profit organisation. The Founding members of OneASia are the China Golf Association, the Korea Golf Tour, the Korea Golf Association and the PGA of Australia.
The founding members of the OneAsia Board:
- Mr Zhang Xiaoning, China Golf Association
- Mr Yang Jie, China Golf Association
- Mr Seoung Ghee-wook, Korea Golf Tour
- Mr Kim Dong-wook, Korea Golf Association
- Mr Maxwell Garske, PGA of Australia
- Mr Jonathan Crisp, PGA of Australia
