Asian Tour heading back to Riyadh for Saudi Open with order of merit, 2024 cards up for grabs
- Saudi Open earns step up in status from last year’s Asian Development Tour
- Order of merit title still up for grabs and players in the season’s top 65 will retain full status for 2024
The Asian Tour’s 2023 season will come full circle next month when it holds its last event of the year in Saudi Arabia.
More than 10 months after starting the season in the desert kingdom, the tour returns for the Saudi Open in Riyadh.
With the order of merit title still up for grabs and only players in the top 65 retaining full status for next year, there is plenty to play for at this week’s event at the Taifong Open in Taiwan and at Riyadh Golf Club 11 days later.
Those that do keep their cards will be back at the same venue little more than a month later for the start of the 2024 schedule, with the tournament taking place again from January 25 to 28.
In a release, the tour said the elevation of the event from the Asian Development Tour (ADT) in 2022 to the Asian Tour was “a further sign of the close ties between Golf Saudi and the Asian Tour”.
“Last year’s Saudi Open on the ADT was one of the most popular tournaments we have staged in the kingdom,” Cho Minn Thant, commissioner and CEO of the Asian Tour, said.