The Australian summer of golf will continue into 2016 with the PGA Tour of Australasia schedule offering plenty of golf action in the start of the new year.

While Australia is bracing itself for a bumper summer of golf in the coming
months with the European Tour, Jordan Spieth, Ernie Els and Adam Scott all
confirmed to be heading down under, the PGA Tour of Australasia early 2016
schedule has today been announced.

The Tour will get back underway from the 4-7 February 2016 at the Oates Vic
Open. Heading back to Thirteenth Beach Golf Links the tournament will again see
the men’s and women’s championship played concurrently for the same amount of
prize money, a minimum of $250,000.

The Mercedes-Benz Truck and Bus Victorian PGA Championship will be played the
following week at the prestigious Huntingdale Golf Club from the 9-12 February
for $100,000. Following on from the successful staging of the tournament in a pro-am
format, the Mercedes-Benz Truck and Bus Victorian PGA Championship allows
amateurs the chance to play in a PGA Tour of Australasia tournament alongside
the Professionals and on the famed Melbourne Sandbelt.

The European Tour will be making a much anticipated return to West Australian
soil for the fourth staging of the Perth International and in a new
addition, the tournament will now be tri-sanctioned with the Asian Tour.

Being played from the 25-28 February, the tournament’s move into the early parts
of the Race to Dubai and PGA Tour of Australasia seasons is expected to see the
Perth International attract a strong field of European and Australasian players
looking to capitalise early in the year.

The Perth International will be played for AU$1.75million which, along with the
Australian PGA Championship, which is also co-sanctioned by the European Tour,
makes it the equal richest prize purse currently on the PGA Tour of
Australasia.  

From Perth, the PGA Tour of Australasia will jet back across Australia and the
Tasman Sea to New Zealand for its major tournaments of the year.

The Holden NZ PGA Championship will be played at Remuera Golf Club after the
tournament’s successful return to Auckland this year. Professionals will be
competing for NZ$125,000 from 3-6 March.

The following week will see the prestigious BMW New Zealand Open being played
in picturesque Queenstown. A highlight on the PGA Tour of Australasia schedule,
the players thoroughly enjoy being welcomed back to The Hills and Millbrook Resort
each year for the NZ$950,000 tournament. Also being played in a pro-am format,
there is a bonus NZ$50,000 on offer for the team component of the tournament
meaning total prize money on offer for the professionals reaches NZD$1,000,000.

Rounding out the early part of the 2016 schedule is the Coca-Cola Queensland
PGA Championship which will be played at the City Golf Club in Toowoomba from
17-20 March for $125,000.

The second half of the 2016 PGA Tour of Australasia season will be announced
next year.

Related Links

Schedule / 2016 PGA Tour of Australasia
Schedule / 2015 PGA Tour of Australasia