Asian Tour has short shelf life here, vows CGA chief

Domestic golf tournaments sanctioned by the Asian Tour will be replaced by those sanctioned by the OneAsia Tour in the future, Zhang Xiaoning, secretary general of the Chinese Golf Association (CGA), said late last week.

"It's the truth. There will no longer be any Asian Tour events in China," Zhang said. "We have the OneAsia Tour, which covers some of the best golf nations in the Asia-Pacific region, and we believe this will definitely develop the sport (here).

"As for the Asian Tour, the tournaments were ours, the sponsors, everything was ours, but our players got low quotas and we didn't have many tournaments in China. Generally, we didn't get enough benefits from the Asian Tour."