Asian Tour chief hits out at OneAsia Tour 20/05/2010 |
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Asian Tour executive chairman Kyi Hla Han has questioned the long-term viability of the rival OneAsia Tour, claiming it has a “dangerous structure”.
The Asian Tour and OneAsia have been engaged in a long-running dispute after the emergence of the new series, formed by the PGA of Australia, China Golf Association, Korea Golf Tour and the Korea Golf Association in 2009.
"A tour of 10 tournaments, long term, is not going to survive," Han told Reuters.
"So they have to get very aggressive very quickly and shake us up and they are seeing it is not working – it's just a mess."
The OneAsia Tour has increased the number of tournaments from five last year to 11 for this season, but has been accused by the Asian Tour of "cannibalising" its events after taking six from its rival.
OneAsia, which works with Singapore-based sports marketing company World Sport Group, has said it hopes to have 17-20 events for 2011 with a minimum purse of $1m across nine countries but Han remains sceptical.
"I think they [OneAsia] will only be there while the sports marketing company is backing it or it is going to go bankrupt,” he added.
"I think it is dangerous – we got out of that kind of structure earlier and we are structuring ourselves the same as the PGA Tour and the European Tour."
"I would like to see them really attract the big companies to sponsor events rather than just underwriting."
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