• The UBS Hong Kong is celebrating its 50th staging this year. The tournament was first played in 1959 and won by Lu Liang-huan.
• The event has a wonderfully rich history of former winners, including nine Major Champions, who have won 25 Major Championships between them. They are: Peter Thomson (1960, 65, 67), Kel Nagle (1961), Orville Moody (1971), Greg Norman (1979, 83), Ian Woosnam (1987), Bernhard Langer (1991), Tom Watson (1992), José Maria Olazábal (2002) and Padraig Harrington (2004).
• The previous 49 editions of the UBS Hong Kong Open has produced 40 different champions from 15 different countries.
• History was created in the 2003 UBS Hong Kong when Shih-kai Lo became the youngest player to compete in a European Tour event, aged just 13 and 280 days, beating the then record set by Sergio Garcia of 15 and 45 days in the 1995 Turespaña Open Mediterrania. Land of Valencia.
• Defending champion, Miguel Angel Jiménez will attempt to become only the second player in the history of the event to make a successful defence of the title, following Hsieh Yung-yo in 1963-64. Jiménez currently holds the record for most wins in co-sanctioned events between the Asian and European Tour, with four. They are: 2004 Johnnie Walker Classic, 2004 BMW Asian Open, 2005 UBS Hong Kong Open and 2008 UBS Hong Kong Open.
• The course celebrated its centenary in 1989 and the Hong Kong Golf Club has staged the tournament since its inception in 1959.
