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 $2,750,000
Month played December
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
Rory McIlroy

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
2011   Rory McIlroy   268 (−12)
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

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