Singapore – ESPN STAR Sports announced its multi-year regional television broadcast partnership to showcase the new OneAsia golf series, Asia Pacific’s first consolidated professional tournament pathway for elite golfers. The partnership comprises an exclusive five-year television agreement to showcase live coverage of OneAsia events across 24 territories across ESPN STAR Sports’ regional footprint in 2010. Golf fans can look forward to catching a growing calendar of golf events on ESPN STAR Sport comprising OneAsia tournaments, which will increase to 23 golf tournaments in 2014. In addition, enthusiasts can also look forward to daily live broadcasts of all OneAsia tournaments and coverage on ESPN STAR Sports’ news programmes SportsCenter and Score Tonight and weekly magazine show Golf Focus. The OneAsia tournament schedule has grown to 11 confirmed events after its first year, with most of the events scheduled in 2010 offering a minimum purse of US$1 million. Of the current list of events, ten remain full field OneAsia tournaments purely for the leading golfers in the region, providing players with an alternative pathway to the PGA Tour and the European Tour. The OneAsia season will kick off at the Luxehills Chengdu Open in Beijing on 1 April.