For a proud second year running the winner of the Link Hong Kong Open will earn an invitation to the Masters and Open Championship.
The Hong Kong Open has long been one of the region’s foremost golf tournaments, which also receives global appeal. If the region boasted major championships it would be one of the select few to be included.
This year the tournament reaches its 65th edition, with every version having been staged at the Hong Kong Golf Club. It’s the only event outside of the Masters Tournament to be played at the same venue for such an extended period of time.
For the third season in a row Link Asset Management (Link) is the title sponsor. The company was founded in Hong Kong and is a leading real estate investor and manager focused on the Asia-Pacific region.
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With a @TheMasters & @TheOpen invitation also again for this year’s @TheHKOpen @asiantourgolf champion
This year’s @asiantourgolf event also proudly reaches its 65th edition, with every version having been staged @hkgolfclub
It’s also the only event outside @TheMasters to be played at the same venue for such an extended period of time.
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The tournament also boasts of list of past champions that is unprecedented in the region.
Some of the all-time greats of the game have raised the trophy, including Australian Peter Thomson (1960, 1965, 1967), his countryman Greg Nwrman (1979, 1982), Welshman Ian Woosnam (1987), Germany’s Bernhard Langer (1991) and American Tom Watson (1992).
In more recent times champions have also included Spain’s Jose-Maria Olazabal (2001), Padraig Harrington from Ireland (2003), Scotland’s Colin Montgomerie (2005), Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy (2011), plus Englishmen Ian Poulter (2010), Justin Rose (2015) and Aaron Rai (2018) have also been successful.
Spain’s Miguel Angel Jimenez and Hsieh Yung-yo from Chinese-Taipei have the honour of winning here the most, having triumphed on four occasions. The former won in 2004, 2007, 2012, and 2013 while the later was victorious in 1963, 1964, 1975 and 1978.
Dominique Boulet, the Chairman of the Asian Tour and widely regarded as the voice of Asian golf thanks to his work with the Tour’s commentary team, finished fourth in 1996 – the best result by a Hong Kong golfer.
Tournament Information:
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Date: 22 – 25 October
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Venue: Hong Kong Golf Club, Fanling
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Par / Yards: 70 / 6,710 yards
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Purse: US$2million
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Asian Tour leg: Thirteenth
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Edition of tournament: 65th
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Previous winner: Tom McKibbin (NIR)
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Previous winning score: 253 (-27)
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Total number of players: 138
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Format: Stroke play tournament over 4 rounds of 18 holes with a cut after 36 holes to leading 65 professionals plus ties.
Those Competing:
There is six players in Hong Kong this week who have already enjoyed the privilege of being crowned the Asian Tour’s OOM champion and they are Japan’s Kazuki Higa (2025), John Catlin (2024) from the United States, his countrymen Andy Ogletree (2023) and Sihwan Kim (2022), Thailand’s Jazz Janewattananond (2019), Malaysian Gavin Green (2017) and India’s Anirban Lahiri (2015).
Also hoping to have their name inscribed on the famed Hong Kong Open trophy for the first are a host of global winners, that includes: Englishman Lee Westwood and Paul Casey, South Africans Louis Oosthuizen, Dean Burmester and Branden Grace, plus Americans Anthony Kim, Kevin Na and Harold Varner III. Korean Ben An, Mexico’s Carlos Ortiz and Thomas Pieters from Belgium are also here.
