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. Golfer teeing off at the start of a hole Golf is an outdoor game where individual players or teams play a small ball into a hole using various clubs. ... The Asian Golf Tour is the principal mens professional golf tour in Asia except for Japan, which has a separate tour. ... PGA means one of the following things: Professional Golfers Association The PGA TOUR, the principal mens professional golf tour in the United States Producers Guild of America Peoples Global Action pin grid array, a type of packaging for integrated circuits Plastic grid array professional graphics adapter, a video interface...

The tournament is played towards the end of the year and for European Tour purposes it falls into the following season. For example the Hong Kong Open played on the 2-5 December 2004 was part of the European Tour's 2005 season. The bank UBS has signed a four year sponsorship agreement covering the 2005-2008 tournaments. The prize fund will be U.S.$1.2 million. UBS can refer to: UBS AG, a banking group Unbundled Bitstream Services United Building Society - the name of several financial institutions in different countries around the world. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ...

Well known golfers who have won the tournament include Bernhard Langer, Orville Moody, Kel Nagle, Greg Norman, Peter Thomson, Tom Watson and Ian Woosnam. Bernhard Langer (born August 27, 1957 in Anhausen near Augsburg, Germany) is a professional German golfer. ... Kel Nagle (born December 21, 1920 in North Sydney, Australia) is an Australian golfer who is best known for winning the British Open Championship in 1960. ... Greg Norman (born February 10, 1955 in Queensland, Australia), is an Australian professional golfer who spent 331 weeks as the worlds number one ranked golfer in the 1980s and 1990s. ... Peter Thomson (born Melbourne 1929) is an Australian golfer. ... There are at least four notable people called Tom Watson Tom Watson, the golfer Tom Watson, manager of Liverpool F.C. from 1896 to 1915 Tom Watson, the British politician Thomas E. Watson, the American Populist leader This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that... Ian Woosnam (March 2, 1958, Oswestry, England) is a British golf player representing Wales. ...

Winners

This list is incomplete.

As a European Tour event. The first date listed is the year in which the tournament was played and the Asian Tour season which it belonged to. The year in brackets is the European Tour season which it belonged to:

• 2004 (2005) Miguel Angel Jiménez - Spain
• 2003 (2004) Padraig Harrington - Spain
• 2002 (2003) Fredrik Jacobson - Sweden
• 2001 (2002) José Maria Olazábal

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• 2000 Simon Dyson - England
• 1999 Patrik Sjöland - Sweden
• 1998
• 1997
• 1996
• 1995
• 1994
• 1993
• 1992 Tom Watson - United States
• 1991 Bernhard Langer - Germany
• 1990
• 1989
• 1988
• 1987 Ian Woosnam - Wales
• 1986
• 1985
• 1984
• 1983 Greg Norman - Australia
• 1982
• 1981
• 1980
• 1979 Greg Norman - Australia
• 1978
• 1977
• 1976
• 1975
• 1974
• 1973
• 1922
• 1971
• 1970
• 1969
• 1968
• 1967
• 1966
• 1965 Peter Thomson - Australia
• 1964
• 1963
• 1962
• 1961 Kel Nagle - Australia
• 1960 Peter Thomson - Australia
• 1959 Lu Liang Huan - Taiwan

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External links

• Official site (http://www.omegahongkongopen.com/)
• Coverage on the European Tour's official site (http://www.europeantour.com/tournaments/latest.sps?iTourNo=2004082)