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The Hong Kong Golf Club – At a Glance

• The HKGC was founded in 1889. The clubhouse at Fanling was constructed in 1911 and is a Grade II Heritage Building.

• The first Hong Kong Open was played in 1959. The HKGC and the Augusta National Golf Club in the US are the only two clubs in the world that have hosted the same professional tournament for more than 50 years.

• Almost 50,000 spectators attended the 60th Hong Kong Open last December.

• Each year, more than 120,000 rounds of golf are played on Fanling's three courses and more than 50,000 of those are played by non-members.

• The HKGC has 68 ancestral graves and more than 74 urns located through the three courses at Fanling. Some date back to the Qing and Ming dynasties.

• The HKGC is home to 46% of the total number of old and valuable trees (OVTs) in Hong Kong. There are 409 OVTs at Fanling.

• Hong Kong's Tiffany Chan won the 2016 Hong Kong Ladies Open (the tournament was launched in 2015) as an amateur player. She has since turned professional and now competes on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tour.