2023–24 PGA Tour of Australasia

The 2023–24 PGA Tour of Australasia, titled as the 2023–24 Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia for sponsorship reasons, was the 50th season on the PGA Tour of Australasia, the main professional golf tour in Australia and New Zealand since it was formed in 1973.

2023–24 PGA Tour of Australasia season

Duration	4 May 2023 (2023-05-04) – 17 March 2024 (2024-03-17)
Number of official events	18
Most wins	Kazuma Kobori (3)
Order of Merit	Kazuma Kobori
Player of the Year	Kazuma Kobori
Rookie of the Year	Kazuma Kobori
← 2022–23 2024–25 →

Changes for 2023–24

The season marked the return of the PNG Open, being played for the first time since 2019.^[1] The Heritage Classic also returned to the schedule, having not been played since 2013.^[2]

Challenger title sponsorship

In October 2023, it was announced that the tour had signed a title sponsorship agreement with Australian investment firm Challenger, being renamed as the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia.^[3]

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2023–24 season.^[4][5]

Date	Tournament	Location	Purse (A$)	Winner[a]	OWGR points	Other tours[b]	Notes
7 May	PNG Open	Papua New Guinea	180,000	Lachlan Barker (1)	0.39
20 Aug	Tailor-made Building Services NT PGA Championship	Northern Territory	200,000	Daniel Gale (2)	1.07
8 Oct	Nexus Advisernet/Bowra & O'Dea WA Open	Western Australia	175,000	Simon Hawkes (2)	1.14
15 Oct	CKB WA PGA Championship	Western Australia	250,000	Ben Eccles (2)	1.30
22 Oct	Webex Players Series SA	South Australia	200,000	Austin Bautista (2)	1.50	WANZ	Mixed event
5 Nov	Queensland PGA Championship	Queensland	250,000	Phoenix Campbell (a) (1)	1.69
12 Nov	Gippsland Super 6	Victoria	200,000	Kerry Mountcastle (1)	1.12
19 Nov	Victorian PGA Championship	Victoria	250,000	David Micheluzzi (4)	1.53
26 Nov	Fortinet Australian PGA Championship	Queensland	2,000,000	Min Woo Lee (2)	13.51	EUR
3 Dec	ISPS Handa Australian Open	New South Wales	1,700,000	Joaquín Niemann (n/a)	14.80	EUR
14 Jan	Heritage Classic	Victoria	200,000	Matthew Griffin (4)	1.89
21 Jan	Webex Players Series Murray River	Victoria	250,000	Kazuma Kobori (2)	1.47	WANZ	Mixed event
28 Jan	Webex Players Series Victoria	Victoria	250,000	Kazuma Kobori (3)	2.48	WANZ	Mixed event
4 Feb	Vic Open	Victoria	420,000	Brett Coletta (3)	3.07
11 Feb	Webex Players Series Sydney	New South Wales	250,000	Kazuma Kobori (4)	2.11	WANZ	Mixed event
18 Feb	Webex Players Series Hunter Valley	New South Wales	250,000	Daniel Gale (3)	1.67	WANZ	Mixed event
3 Mar	New Zealand Open	New Zealand	NZ$2,000,000	Takahiro Hataji (n/a)	6.63	ASA
17 Mar	The National Tournament	Victoria	200,000	Cameron John (1)	2.32

Unofficial events

The following events were sanctioned by the PGA Tour of Australasia, but did not carry official money, nor were wins official.

Date	Tournament	Location	Purse (A$)	Winner	OWGR points	Other tours[b]	Notes
6 Dec	Cathedral Invitational	Victoria	300,000	Adam Scott	n/a		Limited-field event

Order of Merit

The Order of Merit was based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system.^[6][7] The top three players on the Order of Merit earned status to play on the 2025 European Tour (DP World Tour).^[8]

Position	Player	Points	Status earned
1	Kazuma Kobori	841	Promoted to European Tour
2	Daniel Gale	647
3	Brett Coletta	604
4	Matthew Griffin	506
5	David Micheluzzi	384

Awards

Award	Winner	Ref.
Player of the Year	Kazuma Kobori	[9]
Rookie of the Year	Kazuma Kobori	[10][8]

Notes

1. 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.
2. ASA − Asian Tour; EUR − European Tour; WANZ − WPGA Tour of Australasia.