The PGA Tour, DP World Tour, and Asian Tour all announced a new multi-year partnership on Tuesday morning and it feels more then fair to say that this is where the future of professional golf is headed.
Multi-year partnership announced between PGA Tour, DP World Tour, Asian Tour
The future of professional golf is starting to take shape
These types of statements have been difficult to make over the last handful of years as matters in professional golf have been complicated to say the least. Golf has been divided, putting things lightly, and broken into factions, but this is a strong of an indicator that there has been that a unified front is on the horizon.
This will run through at least 2029 and is in place effective immediately.
Effective immediately, the PGA TOUR and DP World Tour – through their own existing Strategic Alliance – will partner with the Asian Tour to help provide commercial and playing opportunities, also establishing pathways for the leading Asian Tour members, with playing rights starting from the 2027 DP World Tour season.
The DP World Tour will also return to co-sanctioning select tournaments with the Asian Tour from 2027. Full details of those events will be outlined when the DP World Tour’s schedule for next season is announced later this year.
The DP World Tour and Asian Tour previously had a Strategic Alliance from 2016 to 2021. That formalised a relationship which originally began in February 1999 when the Malaysian Open became the first tournament to be co-sanctioned by the two tours.
In total, 108 tournaments have been co-sanctioned, with a further 21 events tri-sanctioned with either the Sunshine Tour or PGA Tour of Australasia.
Cho Minn Thant, Commissioner and CEO of the Asian Tour, said: “We feel the time is now right to collaborate with the DP World Tour and PGA Tour to enhance the Asian Tour for our members, fans and partners. Bringing the three Tours together under one partnership will increase the bandwidth of the professional game in Asia. Not only will co-sanctioning events see our members competing regularly on the global stage, but we are excited to welcome players from the other Tours to our pinnacle events, which showcase the strength and diversity of golf in Asia.”
Again, the future appears firm and concrete. The major championship season is now in the past with Ryan Fox winning the Open, but it is clear and obvious that 2027 is going to present as whole of a picture that the game of golf has seen in some time.
At long last.
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