Making a welcome return to the schedule after a three-year hiatus, the Taifong Open in Chinese Taipei will act as the decisive, final event of the 2022 Asian Development Tour (ADT).

To be staged at Taifong Golf Club in Changhua county on December 22-25, the tournament will see a 25% increase in its prize fund to USD200,000, making it the joint richest event on the ADT. When the tournament was last staged on the ADT at the end of 2019, the purse was USD160,000.

The leading 10 players, not otherwise exempted, on the final 2022 ADT Order of Merit following the conclusion of the Taifong Open will earn their Asian Tour cards for the 2023 season.

Cho Minn Thant, Commissioner and CEO, Asian Tour, said: “Given that the Taifong Open will once more bring down the curtain on the ADT season, it’s a fabulous development that we’ll have a significant rise in prize money.

“With Asian Tour cards on the line and so much at stake, it’s fitting that the Taifong Open will offer the equal highest purse on the Tour, reflecting the importance of the week.”

In the 2019 event, Thailand's Donlaphatchai Niyomchon emerged triumphant in what was the sixth year in succession that the Taifong Open had been part of the ADT. Previous winners of the Taifong Open were local star Chan Shih-chang (2018 and 2014); Thai Pannakorn Uthaipas (2017); American Johannes Veerman (2016) and Thai Rattanon Wannasrichan (2015).

Thailand’s Suteepat Prateeptienchai currently tops the ADT Order of Merit with three victories this season, earning him a battlefield promotion to the Asian Tour for the remainder of this season.

The 2022 ADT season boasts a total of 15 events with three remaining: the Selangor Masters (November 23-26, Seri Selangor Golf Club, Malaysia), Saudi Open (December 8-10, Riyadh Golf Club, Saudi Arabia) and Taifong Open (December 22-25, Taifong Golf Club, Chinese Taipei).