Hong Kong Open (golf)
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| Tournament information | |
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| Location |  New Territories,Hong Kong |
| Established | 1959 |
| Course(s) | Hong Kong Golf Club |
| Par | 70 |
| Yardage | 6,703 |
| Tour(s) | European Tour Asian Tour |
| Format | Stroke play |
| Purse | $2,500,000 |
| Month played | November |
| Tournament record score | |
| Aggregate | 260 Fredrik Jacobson (2003)* |
| To-par | -22 José María Olazábal (2002)*
*These records only date back to 2001 when this tournament became a European Tour event. |
| Current champion | |
 Grégory Bourdy |
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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.
[edit] Winners
As a European Tour co-sanctioned event
| Year* | Winner | Score | |
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| UBS Hong Kong Open | |||
| 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
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