1976 Asia Golf Circuit
The 1976 Asia Golf Circuit was the 15th season of golf tournaments that comprised the Asia Golf Circuit.[1]
Taiwan's Hsu Sheng-san won the circuit title, with a fifth-place finish in the season ending Sobu International Open being enough to stay ahead of the tournament winner, Ben Arda of the Philippines, in the final standings.[2]
Tournament schedule
The table below shows the 1976 Asian Golf Circuit schedule.
| Date | Tournament | Country | Prize fund (US$) |
Winner | Notes | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Feb | Philippine Masters | Philippines | 20,000 |  Ben Arda |
Non-circuit event; unofficial season opener.[3] | [4] |
| 22 Feb | Philippine Open | Philippines | 60,000 | Quintin Mancao |
[5] | |
| 29 Feb | Taiwan Open | Taiwan | 30,000 |  Hsu Chi-san |
[6] | |
| 7 Mar | Thailand Open | Thailand | 25,000 | Ben Arda |
[7] | |
| 14 Mar | Singapore Open | Singapore | 45,000 |  Kesahiko Uchida |
[8] | |
| 21 Mar | Indonesian Open | Indonesia | 25,000 |  Mya Aye |
[9] | |
| 28 Mar | Malaysian Open | Malaysia | 30,000 | Hsu Sheng-san |
[10] | |
| 5 Apr | Indian Open | India | 25,000 |  Peter Thomson |
Played the same week as the Malaysian Dunlop Masters. | [11] |
| 12 Apr | Hong Kong Open | Hong Kong | 40,000 | Ho Ming-chung |
[12] | |
| 19 Apr | Korea Open | South Korea | 90,000 | Katsunari Takahashi |
[13] | |
| 25 Apr | Sobu International Open | Japan | 75,000 | Ben Arda |
[2][14] |
Final standings
The Asia Golf Circuit operated a points based system to determine the overall circuit champion, with points being awarded in each tournament to the leading players. At the end of the season, the player with the most points was declared the circuit champion, and there was a prize pool to be shared between the top players in the points table.
| # | Player | Points[14] |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hsu Sheng-san |
163.5 |
| 2 | Ben Arda |
154.5 |
| 3 | Kuo Chie-hsiung |
113 |
| 4 | Hsu Chi-san |
83 |
| 5 | Mya Aye |
78.5 |
References
- ^ Steel, Donald (1987). Golf Records, Facts and Champions. Guinness. pp. 153–155. ISBN 0851128475.
- ^ a b "Arda wins right to play in British, US meets". The Straits Times. Singapore. 26 April 1976. p. 27. Retrieved 13 February 2020 – via National Library Board.
- ^ "77 for Philippine Masters". New Nation. Singapore. 11 February 1976. p. 16. Retrieved 3 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
- ^ "Filipino golfer wins in Manila". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. 16 February 1976. p. 65. Retrieved 3 March 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Police sergeant Mancao wins PI Open golf". The Straits Times. Singapore. 23 February 1976. p. 26. Retrieved 3 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
- ^ "Hsu takes lead in Asia Circuit". The Straits Times. Singapore. 2 March 1976. p. 25. Retrieved 3 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
- ^ "Ben Arda wins Thai Open by four strokes". The Straits Times. Singapore. 8 March 1976. p. 27. Retrieved 3 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
- ^ Frida, Ernest; Singh, Dharsan (15 March 1976). "Uchida holds late Arda challenge to win Singapore Open". The Straits Times. Singapore. p. 26. Retrieved 3 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
- ^ "Mya Aye scores on the greens". The Straits Times. Singapore. 22 March 1976. p. 27. Retrieved 3 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
- ^ "Mya Aye's error costs him Malaysian title". The Straits Times. Singapore. 29 March 1976. p. 27. Retrieved 3 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
- ^ "Thomson's open". The Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 5 April 1976. p. 16. Retrieved 3 March 2020 – via Google News Archive.
- ^ "Taiwan sweeps". The Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. AP. 12 April 1976. p. 18. Retrieved 3 March 2020 – via Google News Archive.
- ^ "Takahashi wins playoff for title". The Straits Times. Singapore. 19 April 1976. p. 24. Retrieved 3 March 2020 – via National Library Board.
- ^ a b "Overall standings in the 1976 Asian circuit". The Sydney Morning Herald. 26 April 1976. Retrieved 3 March 2020 – via Google News Archive.