DID YOU KNOW: WGC – HSBC CHAMPIONS
*Defending champion, Ian Poulter will try to become only the second player to make a successful defence of a WGC event, following Tiger Woods, who has done this on eight occasions.
*In claiming his first WGC title in the 2011 WGC – HSBC Champions, Martin Kaymer created WGC history by making up five shots in the final round. This is the largest final day comeback by a winner in a WGC stroke play event.
*Three of the 2013 Major Champions are playing, plus the defending WGC – HSBC Champion, Ian Poulter. Overall there are ten Major Champions and ten WGC winners competing, including all four past winners of the WGC – HSBC Champions.
*Phil Mickelson is bidding to win for a third time on the 2013 European Tour International Schedule, following the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open and The 142ndOpen Championship. He has never before won three times in a single European Tour season. Indeed, Tiger Woods (1999-2002, 2005-2008), is the only American to achieve this feat in the same European Tour season.
*European Tour Members will look to continue their winning run in the HSBC Champions, having won the event for the past three seasons, with Francesco Mollinari (2010), Martin Kaymer (2011) and Ian Poulter (2012). None of the four WGC events has witnessed four consecutive European Tour Member victories in the same WGC event.
*Should either of Phil Mickelson or Ian Poulter triumph they would have won three WGC titles to go alongside Geoff Ogilvy and into joint second in the list of most WGC wins.
*Brandt Snedeker created WGC history in the 2012 WGC – HSBC Champions when he became the first player to shoot a 60 in any of the three WGC stroke play events.
*There will be no fewer than 44 European Tour Members participating in the 2013 WGC – HSBC Champions. Tommy Fleetwood , Jin Jeong and Peter Uihlein will all be making their WGC debuts.
- The 2013 WGC – HSBC Champions will be the 49thindividual WGC event. The first one was the 1999 WGC – Accenture Match Play Championship.
