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| Golfers Go for Gold - Shanghai BMW Asian Open |
| 05.08.04 (2:32 am) [edit] |
The grass is looking greener this month in Pudong. The biggest Chinese golf tournament of the year, the BMW Asian Open will tee off at the Tomson Shanghai Pudong Golf Club from May 13-16. A sign of China's rise in the golf world, the Professional Golf Association of America (PGA)'s European Tour has decided to hold its first event on the Chinese mainland - and the US$1.5 million prize has lured some of golf's biggest stars into participating.
Two players that will surely add some spice to the greens are John Daly, known both for his hard hitting on the course, and hard drinking off, and the fierce Australian competitor Greg Norman. Daly's unpredictable antics and 300 yard-plus drives have made him a hero of backyard hackers everywhere.
Aging Aussie Norman, the 'Great White Shark,' remains popular despite plummeting in recent world golf rankings. The first player to earn US$10 million on the pro circuit, Norman was recently elevated to the World Golf Hall of Fame. Irishman Padraig Harrington, the highest-ranked player in the tourney, will defend his title won last year at the Ta Shee Country Club in Taiwan.
Local fans will also have something to cheer about, with number one ranked Chinese golfer Zhang Lianwei also competing for the BMW Asia crown. Zhang, the first Chinese national to win a European Tour event last year in Singapore, arrives in Shanghai hot from an appearance in the Masters at Augusta.
In an interview on the PGA's European Tour website, Ulrich Thum, managing director of BMW Group China, explained the importance of bringing first-rate golfers to China. "BMW is excited to bring some of the best professional golfers to China with this historic first playing of the BMW Asian Open in Shanghai. With its blend of performance and style, world class golf shares many similarities with the world-class automotive engineering of BMW."
With millions of dollars in career victories, these guys might indeed drive BMWs, but John Daly, for example, shares more attributes with a beer truck than those beautiful Bavarian machines. Head out to Pudong and watch these guys drive (on the fairway that is) and decide for yourself. 8)
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