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2017 PGA Tour of Australasia season
Duration	1 February 2017 – 3 December 2017
Number of official events	15
Most wins	Dimitrios Papadatos (2)
Order of Merit	Brett Rumford
Player of the Year	Dimitrios Papadatos
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The 2017 PGA Tour of Australasia, titled as the 2017 ISPS Handa PGA Tour of Australasia for sponsorship reasons, was the 44th season on the PGA Tour of Australasia, the main professional golf tour in Australia and New Zealand since it was formed in 1973.

European Tour strategic alliance

In February, it was announced by the European Tour that they had entered into a strategic alliance with the PGA Tour of Australasia. As part of the alliance, it saw the leading player (not otherwise exempt) on the PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit gain European Tour status for the following season.^[1]

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2019 season.^[2]

Date	Tournament	Location	Purse (A$)	Winner^[a]	OWGR points	Other tours^[b]	Notes
4 Feb	Victorian PGA Championship	Victoria	100,000	Damien Jordan (1)	7
12 Feb	Oates Vic Open	Victoria	500,000	Dimitrios Papadatos (2)	16
19 Feb	ISPS Handa World Super 6 Perth	Western Australia	1,750,000	Brett Rumford (3)	23	ASA, EUR
5 Mar	Lawnmaster Horizon Golf New Zealand PGA Championship	New Zealand	NZ$125,000	Jarryd Felton (2)	7
12 Mar	ISPS Handa New Zealand Open	New Zealand	NZ$1,000,000	Michael Hendry (3)	16
19 Mar	Coca-Cola Queensland PGA Championship	Queensland	125,000	Daniel Pearce (1)	7
7 May	SP Brewery PNG Golf Open	Papua New Guinea	142,000	Cory Crawford (1)	6
21 May	TX Civil & Logistics WA PGA Championship	Western Australia	110,000	Dimitrios Papadatos (3)	6
20 Aug	Fiji International	Fiji	1,500,000	Jason Norris (2)	15	ASA, EUR
3 Sep	Northern Territory PGA Championship	Northern Territory	150,000	Travis Smyth (a) (1)	6
22 Oct	Nexus Risk TSA Group WA Open	Western Australia	100,000	Stephen Leaney (8)	6
29 Oct	Isuzu Queensland Open	Queensland	110,000	Michael Sim (1)	6
19 Nov	NSW Open	New South Wales	400,000	Jason Scrivener (1)	16
26 Nov	Emirates Australian Open	New South Wales	1,250,000	Cameron Davis (1)	32		Flagship event
3 Dec	Australian PGA Championship	Queensland	1,500,000	Cameron Smith (1)	23	EUR

Order of Merit

The Order of Merit was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Australian dollars.^[3] The leading player on the Order of Merit (not otherwise exempt) earned status to play on the 2018 European Tour.^[4]

Position	Player	Prize money (A$)	Status earned
1	Brett Rumford	313,094	Already exempt^[c]
2	Adam Bland	292,571	Promoted to European Tour
3	Jason Norris	273,306	Already exempt^[c]
4	Cameron Davis	225,000
5	Michael Hendry	201,916

Awards

Award	Winner	Ref.
Player of the Year	Dimitrios Papadatos	^[7]

Notes

^ The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of PGA Tour of Australasia events they had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for PGA Tour of Australasia members.
^ ASA − Asian Tour; EUR − European Tour.
^ ^a ^b Rumford and Norris were already exempt due to being tournament winners on the 2017 European Tour.^[5]^[6]

References

^ "European Tour and PGA Tour of Australasia announce Strategic Alliance". European Tour. 18 February 2017. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
^ "2017 Tournament schedule". PGA Tour of Australasia. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
^ "2017 Order of Merit". PGA Tour of Australasia. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
^ "Bland's card quest on track". PGA of Australia. 29 August 2018. Archived from the original on 22 February 2023. Retrieved 22 February 2023. His high finish on the 2017 ISPS Handa PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit earned Adam Bland a ticket to the European Tour...
^ "Rumford wins World Super 6 title, regains European Tour card". Fox Sports. Associated Press. 19 February 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
^ "Jason Norris bags first European Tour win in Fiji". RTÉ. 20 August 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
^ "Leishman honoured with Greg Norman Medal". PGA of Australia. 29 November 2017. Archived from the original on 16 January 2023. Retrieved 16 January 2023. ISPS Handa PGA Tour of Australasia Player of the Year: Dimitrios Papadatos, New South Wales