Hong Kong Open (golf)

Hong Kong Open

Tournament information
Location	New Territories, Hong Kong
Established	1959
Course(s)	Hong Kong Golf Club
Par	70
Length	6,700 yards (6,100 m)
Tour(s)	European Tour Asian Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	$2,500,000
Month played	November
Tournament record score
Aggregate	258 Ian Poulter (2010)*
To par	−22 José María Olazábal (2002) −22 Ian Poulter (2010)* *These records only date back to 2001 when this tournament became a European Tour event.
Current champion
Ian Poulter

The Hong Kong Open is a golf tournament which is co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour and the European Tour. It was founded in 1959 and has been part of the European Tour's schedule since 2001. The Hong Kong Golf Association, Hong Kong PGA, and Chinese PGA also receive a limited number of exemptions into the tournament for their members.

Since taking its place on the European Tour the event has always been held at the Hong Kong Golf Club in Sheung Shui, New Territories. Current title sponsors are Swiss banking giants, UBS, who signed a four year sponsorship agreement to cover the 2005–2008 tournaments.

The tournament is usually played towards the end of the year, in November or December, and as such, up to the 2008 event, it has fallen into the following season for European Tour purposes. For example the Hong Kong Open played on the 2–5 December 2004 was part of the European Tour's 2005 season. As the European Tour switches to a calendar based season from 2010, the 2009 schedule will contain two editions of the Hong Kong Open.

In 2008, Florida-based Hong Kong amateur, Jason Hak, became the youngest player ever to make the cut in a European Tour event, at 14 years and 304 days, eclipsing the record set by Sergio García at the Turespana Open Mediterrania in 1995.^[1] Many of the worlds best known golfers have won the tournament, including Bernhard Langer, José María Olazábal, Kel Nagle, Greg Norman, Peter Thomson, Tom Watson, Pádraig Harrington, Colin Montgomerie, and Ian Woosnam.

Winners

As a European Tour co-sanctioned event

Year*	Winner	Score
UBS Hong Kong Open
2010	Ian Poulter	258 (−22)
2009	Grégory Bourdy	261 (−19)
2008 (2009)	Lin Wen-tang	265 (−15)PO
2007 (2008)	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	265 (−15)
2006 (2007)	José Manuel Lara	265 (−15)
2005 (2006)	Colin Montgomerie	271 (−9)
Omega Hong Kong Open
2004 (2005)	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	266 (−14)
2003 (2004)	Pádraig Harrington	269 (−11)
2002 (2003)	Fredrik Jacobson	260 (−16)
2001 (2002)	José María Olazábal	262 (−22)

* The first year listed is the one in which the tournament was played and the Asian Tour season which it belonged to. The year in brackets is the European Tour season that it fell into.

Pre sanctioning by the European Tour

Year Winner 2000 Simon Dyson 1999 Patrik Sjöland 1998 Kang Wook-soon 1997 Frank Nobilo 1996 Rodrigo Cuello 1995 Gary Webb 1994 David Frost 1993 Brian Watts 1992 Tom Watson 1991 Bernhard Langer 1990 Ken Green 1989 Brian Claar 1988 Hsieh Chin-sheng 1987 Ian Woosnam

Year Winner 1986 Seiichi Kanai 1985 Mark Aebli 1984 Bill Brask 1983 Greg Norman 1982 Kurt Cox 1981 Tze-Ming Chen 1980 Kuo Chie-Hsiung 1979 Greg Norman 1978 Hsieh Min-Nan 1977 Hsieh Yung-yo 1976 Ho Ming-chung 1975 Hsieh Yung-yo 1974 Lu Liang-Huan 1973 Frank Phillips

Year Winner 1972 Walter Godfrey 1971 Orville Moody 1970 Isao Katsumata 1969 Teruo Sugihara 1968 Randall Vines 1967 Peter Thomson 1966 Frank Phillips 1965 Peter Thomson 1964 Hsieh Yung-yo 1963 Hsieh Yung-yo 1962 Len Woodward 1961 Kel Nagle 1960 Peter Thomson 1959 Lu Liang-Huan

References

1. ^ "Hak breaks Sergio Garcia's record, makes Euro Tour cut at 14 years old". ESPN. November 21, 2008. http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=3716661. Retrieved 2008-11-21. 

External links

• Official site
• Coverage on the European Tour's official site
• Coverage on the Asian Tour's official site