Asian Development Tour (ADT) Order of Merit contenders will be driving for glory when they line-up in November’s Toyota Tour Championship.

To be staged over the Palm Course (pictured) at Kuala Lumpur’s Saujana Golf & Country Club, the event is being co-sanctioned by the ADT and the Toyota Tour, Malaysia’s domestic professional circuit.

Both the ADT and Toyota Tour will be allocated 66 spots with six invites each in the starting line-up.

The total prize fund will be RM350,000 (approximately US$74,000).

As well as acting as the penultimate leg of the ADT’s 2023 season, the Toyota Tour Championship (November 15-18) will mark the culmination of the inaugural Toyota Tour campaign.

The ADT’s most recent winner, Deyen Lawson of Australia, who claimed the Indo Masters Golf Invitational presented by TNE. Picture by Yulius Martinus/OB Golf.

Following on from the PKNS Selangor Masters (November 8-11), it will also wrap-up a two-week mini-Malaysian swing for the ADT during which the Order of Merit battle is certain to intensify.

With promotion to the Asian Tour in 2024 the prize for the top-10 in the end-of-season ADT standings, the Malaysian tournaments will be pivotal in determining which players will make the step-up next year.

Cho Minn Thant, the Asian Tour Commissioner & CEO, said: “I know our players will be delighted to have back-to-back events in Malaysia as the ADT season heads towards what promises to be an exciting climax.

“With playing rights for the 2024 Asian Tour season on the line, there will be so much at stake. A good fortnight in Malaysia could confirm a player’s place in the top-10 or propel them into contention.

“Our thanks go to our friends at the Toyota Tour as well as the management and staff at Saujana, which has been the scene of so many memorable championships over the past 25 years.”

Launched this year, the Toyota Tour is a tri-party agreement between the Professional Golf of Malaysia (PGM) Tour, UMW Toyota Motor as the naming partner and MST Golf as the delivery agency.

“The partnership with the ADT for the season-ending Toyota Tour Championship will provide an avenue for our professionals to progress to the regional circuits and beyond,” said PGM Tour Acting Chairman Tan Sri Dato’ Sri Hamad Kama Piah Che Othman.