Professional Golf Tours
ALPG Tours
The ALPG Tour is a professional golf tour for women which is based in Australia. ALPG stands for “Australian Ladies Professional Golf”. The ALPG was founded as the Ladies Professional Golf Association of Australia (LPGAA) in 1972, and switched to its current name in 1991.
Asian Tour
The Asian Tour is the principal men’s professional golf tour in Asia except for Japan, which has its own Japan Golf Tour, which is also a full member of the International Federation of PGA Tours.
Canadian Golf Tour
The Canadian Professional Golf Tour is a men’s professional golf tour. It was formally started in 1970 and was initially known as the Peter Jackson Tour.
European Challenge Tour
The Challenge Tour is the second tier men’s professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and as with on the main European Tour and the European Seniors Tour, some of the events are played outside of Europe.
Champtions Tour
The Champions Tour, a golf tour run by the PGA Tour, hosts a series of events annually in the United States and the United Kingdom for golfers 50 years of age and older.
Duramed Futures Tour
The FUTURES Tour, known for sponsorship reasons since 2006 as the Duramed FUTURES Tour, is the developmental tour in women’s professional golf in the United States and is part of the LPGA.
European Seniors Tour
The European Seniors Tour is a professional tour for male golfers aged 50 and over run by the PGA European Tour. The Tour was founded in 1992. In 2007
Japan Golf Tour
The Japan Golf Tour is a prominent golf tour. It was founded in 1973 and as of 2006 it offers the third highest annual prize fund out of the regular (that is not for seniors) men’s professional tours after the PGA Tour and the European Tour.
Japan LPGA Tour
The Japan LPGA Tour is a professional golf tour for women organised by the Ladies Professional Golfers’ Association of Japan. It is the second richest women’s golf tour in the world.
Ladies Asian Golf Tour
The Ladies Asian Golf Tour is a women’s professional golf tour that was established in 2005. At that time there were five established women’s professional tours in the world, of which two were in Asia, namely the LPGA of Japan Tour and the LPGA of Korea Tour.
Ladies European Tour
The Ladies European Tour is a professional golf tour for women which was founded in 1979. It is based in England. Like many UK-based sports organizations it is a company limited by guarantee.
LPGA
The LPGA, in full the Ladies Professional Golf Association, is an American organization for female professional golfers. The organization, with headquarters in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Nationwide Tour
The Nationwide Tour is the developmental tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either failed to score well enough at that level’s Qualifying School (the main tour’s qualifying tournament, popularly referred to as “Q-School”) to earn their PGA Tour card.
NGA Hooters
The NGA Hooters Tour is a developmental men’s golf tour in the United States. It includes approximately eighteen 72-hole events each year throughout the US South and Midwest.
PGA Tour
The PGA Tour is an organization that operates the USA’s main professional golf tours. It is headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, U.S. Its name is officially rendered in all-capital letters as “PGA TOUR”. The PGA Tour became a separate entity in 1968, branching off from the PGA of America
Sunshine Tour
The Sunshine Tour is a men’s professional golf tour based in Southern Africa. For much of its history it was known either as the South African Tour or the FNB Tour, but it rebranded itself in an attempt to broaden its appeal.
