Lewine Mair's Open notebook captures the best from a memorable week at Royal St George's, which saw Darren Clarke become the third Irishman to win a major championship in the past thirteen months
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Written by Lewine Mair
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Reigning Masters champion Charl Schwartzel wants to bring a unique South African flavour to the annual Champions Dinner this year – by doing the cooking himself.
Schwartzel has asked Augusta...
White Dogwood
No. 11
505 yards
Par-4
I have a lot of affection for the 11th because it is where I won my first two Masters titles [in play-offs against Scott Hoch and Raymond Floyd, in 1989 and...
Masamichi Ito of Japan claimed the third Faldo Series title of his career with victory in the sixth Asia Grand Final at Mission Hills Golf Club in mid-March, an event that saw Hong Kong players...
The United States ended their 11-year wait for a 24th Omega Mission Hills World Cup victory as Matt Kuchar and Gary Woodland landed the title at the dramatic Blackstone Course in Hainan.
The most...
If Rory McIlroy goes on to fulfil his potential as one of the greatest stars the game has ever known, we will look back at the day he emerged victorious at the UBS Hong Kong Open as a pivotal one in...
Martin Kaymer ended the run of first-time winners taking home the sport’s top trophies and lifted himself above the crowd when he won the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai early November....
Golden memories will be rolling through the mind of Jose Maria Olazábal when he returns to town for the 2011 UBS Hong Kong Open.
The now 45-year-old Spaniard was a winner here back in 2001...
2005: Monty Gifted Title
The first Hong Kong Open in the UBS sponsorship era started as it had finished with Omega the year before – with a another final-hole collapse by James Kingston....
World number two Lee Westwood continued his love affair with Asia in mid-October by holing a 12-foot birdie putt to beat Liang Wen-chong on the first hole of a play-off for the radical made-for-TV...