With LIV Golf's initial investment in the Asian Tour having been reported in late 2021.

In 2006 the Asian Tour became the most prestigious men's tour on which a woman has made the half-way cut in recent times when Michelle Wie did so at the SK Telecom Open in South Korea.

The winner of the Asian Tour Order of Merit also receives entry into The Open Championship.

[5] Formerly Asia's richest event, the HSBC Champions, was first played in November 2005 with a prize fund of $5 million.

The tournament was co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour and the earnings were counted towards the money list for its first three years before it became a World Golf Championships event in 2009.

Another limited-field event in Malaysia; the CIMB Classic, was launched in 2010 with a $6 million purse.

[7] In 2016, the tour's richest sole-sanctioned event was the Venetian Macao Open, with a prize fund of $1.1 million.

[9] The table below shows the leading money winners on the Asian Tour as of 16 October 2016.