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Although many players, principally [[United States|American]]s, who play primarily on the [[North America]]n [[PGA Tour]] declined invitations to play in 2005, the tournament nevertheless featured several prominent players, including twenty ranked amongst the world's top fifty, and offered a [[Prize money|purse]] of [[United States dollar|US$]]5,000,000, greater than that of any other event played in [[Asia]] or [[Oceania]]. The large prize fund serves not only to recognize and maintain the collective quality of the participant players but also to encourage other players, especially those from the European Tour, to enter, in furtherance of the Tour's efforts to expand into [[East Asia|east]] and [[southeast Asia]], of which the Champions event is the most significant manifestation. Before 2008, any [[prize money]] earned counted toward the Order of Merit standings only on the European Tour inasmuch as the $833,333 first place prize would place a player first overall on any of the other three sanctioning tours, irrespective of his performance across the rest of a season. Starting in 2008, 50% of prize money earned in this event counts toward the Asian Tour Order of Merit.
Although many players, principally [[United States|American]]s, who play primarily on the [[North America]]n [[PGA Tour]] declined invitations to play in 2005, the tournament nevertheless featured several prominent players, including twenty ranked amongst the world's top fifty, and offered a [[Prize money|purse]] of [[United States dollar|US$]]5,000,000, greater than that of any other event played in [[Asia]] or [[Oceania]]. The large prize fund serves not only to recognize and maintain the collective quality of the participant players but also to encourage other players, especially those from the European Tour, to enter, in furtherance of the Tour's efforts to expand into [[East Asia|east]] and [[southeast Asia]], of which the Champions event is the most significant manifestation. Before 2008, any [[prize money]] earned counted toward the Order of Merit standings only on the European Tour inasmuch as the $833,333 first place prize would place a player first overall on any of the other three sanctioning tours, irrespective of his performance across the rest of a season. Starting in 2008, 50% of prize money earned in this event counts toward the Asian Tour Order of Merit.



The title sponsor, the [[London]]-headquartered global [[bank]] [[HSBC]], is the sponsor of one other professional tournament: the [[HSBC Women's Champions]], a [[LPGA|U.S. LPGA]] event held in [[Singapore]]. The company was also sponsor of the [[HSBC World Match Play Championship]] from 2003 to 2007 and the [[HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship]] on the LPGA Tour from 2005 to 2007. The bank briefly co-sponsored the [[Indonesia Open (golf)|Enjoy Jakarta HSBC Indonesia Open]], an event co-sanctioned by the Asian and European Tours, in 2006 and was also a sponsor of the HSBC New Zealand PGA Championship.


==Winners==
==Winners==

Revision as of 19:08, 6 March 2011

For the women's golf tournament sponsored by HSBC, see HSBC Women's Champions.
HSBC Champions
Tournament information
LocationChina Shanghai, China
Established2005
Course(s)Sheshan Golf Club
Par72
Length7,266 yards (6,644 m)
Tour(s)PGA Tour
European Tour
Asian Tour
Sunshine Tour
PGA Tour of Australasia
FormatStroke play
Prize fund$7,000,000
Month playedNovember
Tournament record score
Aggregate268 David Howell (2005)
To par−20 David Howell (2005)
Current champion
Francesco Molinari
2010 WGC-HSBC Champions

The WGC-HSBC Champions is a men's professional golf 72-hole tournament. It has been contested annually since 2005 in November at the Sheshan Golf Club in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. In April 2009 it was announced that the tournament had been awarded World Golf Championships status, starting with the next tournament in November. It is now the fourth tournament on the worldwide calendar along with the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, the WGC-Cadillac Championship and the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational events.[1]

Field

2005-2008 fields

Invitations for the event, which was sanctioned by four—the European, the Asian, and Sunshine Tours and the PGA Tour of Australasia—of the six constituent tours of International Federation of PGA Tours at that time, were issued to all players placed amongst the top 50 in the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR). Also invited were players who had, during the calendar year preceding the event, captured at least one tournament title on a sanctioning tour, or had finished the preceding season amongst the top twenty in the European Tour's Race to Dubai (the Order of Merit standings through 2008) or amongst the top five in the Order of Merit standings of any of the other three sanctioning tours. Players who had finished first in the Order of Merit standings in any of three developmental tours—the Von Nida and Challenge Tours and the winter swing of the Sunshine Tour—were also invited. Finally, starting berths were also reserved for eight Chinese amateur and professional players to be selected by tournament organizers and sponsors, whether by qualifying tournament or not.

2009-2010 fields

The qualifying process changed when the event became a World Golf Championship.[2] The 2009 field consisted primarily of winners of OWGR tournaments with a Strength of Field Rating of 40 or more (which corresponds to a OWGR rating of 16 or more). The set of tournaments are determined by the rating of tournaments from the 2007 HSBC Champions to the 2008 HSBC Champions (2008 calendar year for the PGA Tour). From this set, each of the six member tours gets a certain number of winners automatically qualified (from 5 to 23). Winners from the 2008 HSBC Champions to 2009 WGC-HSBC Champions (2009 PGA Tour) then qualify (regardless of the actual field strength of the tournament) with players also eligible from each tour's Order of Merit. Co-sanctioned tournaments are assigned to only one tour. The last category is cut when the field reaches 78 players, with the remainder becoming the field alternates.

2009

  1. Winners of the four major championships and The Players Championship
  2. Winners of the three World Golf Championships
  3. Winners of the top 23 rated PGA Tour events (34 events met rating)
  4. Top 5 available players from the FedEx Cup
  5. Winners of the top 23 rated European Tour events (25 events met rating)
  6. Top 5 available players from the Race to Dubai
  7. Nine players - winners of the top Asian Tour events, remainder from Order of Merit (6 events met rating)
  8. Five players - winners of the top Japan Golf Tour events, remainder from Order of Merit (8 events met rating)
  9. Five players - winners of the top Sunshine Tour events, remainder from Order of Merit (2 events met rating)
  10. Five players - winners of the top PGA Tour of Australasia events, remainder from Order of Merit (4 events met rating)
  11. Four players from China
  12. Top two available players from the OWGR
  13. Winners of additional tournaments, ordered by field strength (11 from PGA Tour, 2 from European Tour, 3 from Japan Golf Tour)

2010

Same as 2009 except for last two categories. The top 25 on the OWGR were invited in category 12 and the list of additional tournament winners alternated with a list of those ranked after the top 25 in OWGR. (See 2010 WGC-HSBC Champions for detailed field.)

History

Although many players, principally Americans, who play primarily on the North American PGA Tour declined invitations to play in 2005, the tournament nevertheless featured several prominent players, including twenty ranked amongst the world's top fifty, and offered a purse of US$5,000,000, greater than that of any other event played in Asia or Oceania. The large prize fund serves not only to recognize and maintain the collective quality of the participant players but also to encourage other players, especially those from the European Tour, to enter, in furtherance of the Tour's efforts to expand into east and southeast Asia, of which the Champions event is the most significant manifestation. Before 2008, any prize money earned counted toward the Order of Merit standings only on the European Tour inasmuch as the $833,333 first place prize would place a player first overall on any of the other three sanctioning tours, irrespective of his performance across the rest of a season. Starting in 2008, 50% of prize money earned in this event counts toward the Asian Tour Order of Merit.


Winners

Year Winner Country Score Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up Country Ref
WGC-HSBC Champions
2010 Francesco Molinari  Italy 269 (−19) 1 stroke Lee Westwood  England [3]
2009 Phil Mickelson  United States 271 (−17) 1 stroke Ernie Els  South Africa [4]
HSBC Champions
2008 Sergio García  Spain 274 (−14) Playoff
(2nd hole)		 Oliver Wilson  England [5]
2007 Phil Mickelson  United States 278 (−10) Playoff
(2nd hole)		 Ross Fisher  England [6]
Lee Westwood  England
2006 Yang Yong-eun  South Korea 274 (−14) 2 strokes Tiger Woods  United States [7]
Retief Goosen  South Africa
2005 David Howell  England 268 (−20) 3 strokes Tiger Woods  United States [8]

References

  1. ^ "Asian event joins elite WGC list". BBC Sport. 28 April 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2009.
  2. ^ Qualification Procedures
  3. ^ "Francesco Molinari holds off challenge of new world No 1 Lee Westwood to win Champions title in Shanghai". Daily Mail. 16 November 2010. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
  4. ^ Ferguson, Doug (9 November 2009). "Mickelson's heroics net wild 1-shot win". The Boston Globe. Associated Press. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
  5. ^ Dixon, Peter (10 November 2008). "Sergio Garcia nips in to deny Oliver Wilson victory in HSBC Champions trophy". The Times. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
  6. ^ "Mickelson wins HSBC Champions tournament". The New York Times. 11 November 2007. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
  7. ^ "Yang holds off Tiger charge". RTÉ Sport. 12 November 2006. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
  8. ^ "Howell holds off Woods for title". BBC Sport. 13 November 2005. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
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