Overview

The Hong Kong Open has long been one of the region’s foremost golf tournaments, which also receives global appeal. If the region boasted major championships it would be one of the select few to be included.

This year the tournament reaches its 65^th edition, with every version having been staged at the Hong Kong Golf Club. It’s the only event outside of the Masters Tournament to be played at the same venue for such an extended period of time.

For the third season in a row Link Asset Management (Link) is the title sponsor. The company was founded in Hong Kong and is a leading real estate investor and manager focused on the Asia-Pacific region.

And for the second year in succession the winner will receive an invite to play in the Masters Tournament and The Open – a global recognition of the tournament’s prestige.

The tournament also boasts of list of past champions that is unprecedented in the region.

Some of the all-time greats of the game have raised the trophy, including Australian Peter Thomson (1960, 1965, 1967), his countryman Greg Norman (1979, 1982), Welshman Ian Woosnam (1987), Germany’s Bernhard Langer (1991) and American Tom Watson (1992).

Spain’s Jose-Maria Olazabal (2001), Padraig Harrington from Ireland (2003), Scotland’s Colin Montgomerie (2005), Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy (2011), plus Englishmen Ian Poulter (2010), Justin Rose (2015) and Aaron Rai (2018) have also been successful.

Spain’s Miguel Angel Jimenez and Hsieh Yung-yo from Chinese-Taipei have the honour of winning here the most, having triumphed on four occasions. The former won in 2004, 2007, 2012, and 2013 while the later was victorious in 1963, 1964, 1975 and 1978.

Dominique Boulet, the Chairman of the Asian Tour and widely regarded as the voice of Asian golf thanks to his work with the Tour’s commentary team, finished fourth in 1996 – the best result by a Hong Kong golfer.

Tournament Information

• Date: 22 – 25 October
• Venue: Hong Kong Golf Club, Fanling
• Par / Yards: 70 / 6,710 yards
• Purse: US$2million
• Asian Tour leg: Thirteenth
• Edition of tournament: 65th
• Previous winner: Tom McKibbin (NIR)
• Previous winning score: 253 (-27)
• Total number of players: 138
• Format: Stroke play tournament over 4 rounds of 18 holes with a cut after 36 holes to leading 65 professionals plus ties.

Wang Wei-hsuan with wife and caddie after winning in Macau. Picture by Graham Uden/Asian Tour.

Field Breakdown

• Order of Merit winners: Kazuki Higa (2025), John Catlin (2024), Andy Ogletree (2023), Sihwan Kim (2022), Jazz Janewattananond (2019), Gavin Green (2017), Anirban Lahiri (2015)
• Top contenders: Paul Casey (ENG), Pavit Tangkamolprasert (THA), Travis Smyth (AUS), Wei-hsuan Wang (TPE), Jose Ballester (ESP), Scott Vincent (ZIM)
• Highest ranked player on OWGR: Josele Ballester #137
• Highest ranked player on the Order of Merit: Pavit Tangkamolprasert (THA) #1
• No. of amateurs in the field: 5
• No. of Hong Kong Players in the field: 10

Tournament Notes

• For the second year in succession the winner will receive an invite to play in the Masters Tournament and The Open – a global recognition of the tournament’s prestige.
• Englishman Paul Casey is a five-time Ryder Cup player, and during his 25-year professional career he has also collected 15 DP World Tour titles and three PGA Tour titles. He reached as high as number three on the OWGR in 2009 following his win at the BMW PGA Championship on the DP World Tour. Representing Europe in the Ryder Cup he has been on the winning squad three times. His best result in 2026 has been at the Omega European Masters on the DP World Tour, where he finished runner-up following a playoff loss to South African Thriston Lawrence. At last week’s SJM Macau Open Casey finished T9.
• Thai Pavit Tangkamolprasert continued his great form this season in Macao last week finishing T7, and slightly extended his Order of Merit lead over Travis Smyth. He is having an outstanding season, since in addition to a victory at the Yeangder TPC a month ago, he’s also had a runner-up at the season opening Philippine Golf Championship and a T2 at the International Series Japan this year early in the season.
• Australian Travis Smyth won the International Series Japan in early April, and before that had a third-place finish at the Philippine Golf Championship and a solo-fifth at the New Zealand Open presented by Millbrook Resort. Last week in Macao he finished T9 and remains second on the Order of Merit, trailing Pavit by 192.57 points. On the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia early in the year he won the ISPS HANDA Japan-Australasia Championship to wrap up the 2025/26 Order of Merit crown on that tour.
• Chinese Taipei’s Wei-hsuan Wang recorded his breakthrough win last week in Macao after beating Korean Sungjae Im in a playoff for his first Asian Tour victory. He also recently finished T4 at the Yeangder TPC after firing a final round 10-under-par 62. Wang had his best Asian Tour season in 2025 when he finished ninth on the Order of Merit following a runner-up in Macao after a playoff loss, a T2 at the Yeangder TPC and a third-place finish at the Mercuries Taiwan Masters.
• Zimbabwe’s Scott Vincent has only played one event on the Asian Tour this season, posting a T10 at the International Series Morocco. Most of his golf has been played on LIV where he finshed an impressive 10^th in points after recording five top-10s, the best being a T3 in New York. Vincent has posted two victories on the Asian Tour and three Japan Golf Tour during his career.
• Josele Ballester from Spain is the highest ranked player on the OWGR this week at number 137 and has one Asian Tour win on his resume, the 2025 PIF Saudi International. In 2026 he has only played one Asian Tour event, finishing T3 at the Singapore Open presented by The Business Times. He has also posted three top 10s on the LIV Golf League this year. As an amateur he won the 2020 Spanish Amateur, 2023 European Amateur and 2024 U.S. Amateur.
• For the third season in a row Link Asset Management (Link) is the title sponsor. The company was founded in Hong Kong and is a leading real estate investor and manager focused on the Asia-Pacific region.