The Harry Vardon Trophy is a golf award presented by the European Tour.
The Race to Dubai is calculated in euro, although many of the events have prize funds which are fixed in other currencies, mainly pounds sterling or U.S. dollars.
In these instances, the amounts are converted into euro at the exchange rate for the week that the tournament is played.
In its first year the award was presented to the player with the best average in the major stroke play events.
[6][7] In 1946, after World War II, the award was again given to the player with the best average in the major stroke play events.
[10] Before 1980, the Order of Merit had been based on a points system or stroke average, so it was not necessarily headed by the golfer who won the most money.
Gary Player was the leading money winner with £11,281 but of that, £8,500 came from winning the 1971 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship.
[13][14][15] The reduction in prize money, announced in September 2009,[12] was due to the global economic downturn.
However, in November 2022, the tour announced that the Rankings would be reverted to the Race to Dubai, starting from the 2023 season.