2016 WGC-HSBC Champions: The gather of golf "super heroes"
Five of the world’s best golfers today revealed their superhero personas at the launch of WGC-HSBC Champions as one of the strongest fields ever assembled in the region gather for the ‘Asia’s Major’.
The tournament has once again built upon its reputation of hosting the very best player line-up in Asia with no less than forty of the world’s Top 50 players teeing off in Shanghai at the Sheshan International Golf Club and – for the first time ever – all four Major winners will compete in the China showpiece.
To launch the flagship tournament, the five players starred in “Return of the Superheroes”, an all-action animated film that celebrates their individual superhero qualities; taking the lead roles were Open Champion Henrik “The Machine” Stenson, US Open winner Dustin “The Heat” Johnson, Rickie “Eagle Eye” Fowler and Bubba “The Magician” Watson plus local hero Haotong “The Force” Li.
For the fourth year running WGC-HSBC Champions (October 27-30) has attracted forty or more of the world’s Top 50 players as ‘Asia’s Major’ with Masters champion Danny Willett and USPGA winner Jimmy Walker amongst the formidable field facing defending Champion Russell Knox.
Speaking at the launch Open Champion Henrik Stenson said: “I’ve played in every single HSBC Champions event going back to 2005 and there is some serious momentum behind it now. Just look at the quality of the field – that tells you all you need to know.”
Big-hitting Dustin Johnson echoes this view: “Winning the WGC-HSBC Champions in 2013 was a real breakthrough moment for me. The event has been great for golf in China, which seems to get better every year.”
HSBC Global Head of Sponsorship and Events Giles Morgan said: “Quite simply, this is one of the strongest field ever assembled in Asia – forty of the world’s Top 50, eight of the world’s Top 10, all four Major winners, two Olympic medallists and nineteen of the twenty four Ryder Cup representatives.
Defending champion Russell Knox said, “It is a fantastic field gathered for the final World Golf Championship of the year and it will be a daunting task to defend my title but a challenge I am looking forward to. You can see with entry of such impressive strength and depth exactly why this tournament is called Asia’s Major by so many of the players on Tour.”
The tournament boasts the toughest qualification criteria of all the World Golf Championships, with the majority of the field qualifying only by winning a key tournament on their Tours or by being ranked in the world’s top 50.
Detail information of the tournament, follow the website: https://www.hsbcgolf.com
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