Asian Tour chairman cool on 'OneAsia' merger talks
Kyi Hla Han, the executive chairman of the Asian Tour, has played down the possibility of the Tour joining forces with the Japanese and Australasian Tours to create the proposed OneAsia Tour.
The Japan Golf Tour and the PGA Tour of Australasia signed a memorandum of understanding late last year and were reportedly in negotiations with the Asian Tour to launch the OneAsia Tour in 2009.
Speaking to PA Sports in Kula Lumpur Han revealed that no talks had taken place and that there was little impetus on the Asian Tour's part to push the proposal forward given the healthy state of golf on the continent.
"Right now, we feel that we've been ignored a little bit," he said.
"So far, we feel that as the Asian Tour, we're just going to do what we're going to do at the moment and if there are plans to bring us into the talks, we'll talk, but we don't feel that we need to do anything to enhance the Asian Tour.
"We've just announced a co-sanction for the Pine Valley Beijing Open with Japan and the China Golf Association and we've got another co-sanction with Japan in September at the Asia-Pacific Panasonic Open in Osaka, so we're just going to see how it goes right now."
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