Ahead of the final World Golf Championship of the season this week in Shanghai, europeantour.com takes a numerical look at the HSBC Champions.
11– The number of European Tour Members, who finished in the top 12 in the 2010 WGC – HSBC Champions.
13– The number of Major Champions competing in the 2011 event.
2– Adam Scott is bidding to become only the second player after Tiger Woods to win consecutive WGC titles, after the Australian won the 2011 WGC – Bridgestone Invitational.
63– The course record of the Sheshan International Golf Club. It was established in 2009 by Diasuke Maruyama and then matched by Ernie Els and Rory McIlroy, in the same event.
2004– The year the Sheshan International Golf Club was opened.
41– The HSBC Champions will be the 41st World Golf Championship event to be played since their inception in 1999.
14– The hole number where Padraig Harrington made the event’s first albatross in round three in 2010, using a three wood.
4– In 2010 Francesco Molinari became the fourth European to win a WGC event, when he won the HSBC Champions. He followed Darren Clarke, Henrik Stenson and Ian Poulter. (Luke Donald has since made that figure five, after he won the 2011 WGC – Accenture Match Play Championship).
38– The number of players who finished the 2010 tournament under par.
1– Francesco Molinari became the first wire-to-wire winner when he won at Sheshan International in 2010.
