Golf's Asian Tour and its Efforts to Become as Popular - and Rich - as Football and Cricket
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Show Notes
Kyi Hla Han, Chairman of Golf's Asian Tour, discusses the business of golf, and its management: whether it is for-profit, how it is run and its revenue streams;
Chances of the Asian Tour joining Australia, Japan, and New Zealand to create a "super tour" to rival Europe and the United States;
Prize money on offer currently -- rate of growth;
Challenges such as a still-unstable tour schedule, with several in-season cancellations, reschedulings and prize fund alterations;
The proliferation of players from the European Tour and whether this lessens opportunities for Asian players;
Discusses the case of long-time finance and human resources manager Adrian Lee who fled with US$1mil in company funds;
Fragmentation of other golf tours in Asia such as from OneAsia, the Australasia Tours as well as the Japan Golf Tour;
Discusses Augusta in Georgia where they play the Masters and whether there will ever be a venue in Asia to resemble the mystique and aura of Augusta;
Tiger Woods, and whether he has changed as a person and as a player;
What makes a professional like Tiger do what he did and whether he will ever come back, let alone beat Nicklaus' record of 18 majors;
And an urban myth that Vijay Singh attempted to get Malaysian citizenship but was rejected for being the wrong persuasion -- fact or fiction?
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