Please find attached a bespoke story from the final day of the WGC-HSBC Champions a release from HSBC. Also see  below the European Tour notes.

Please find attached two images  of Hideki Matsuyama which, if used, should only be used to accompany the attached editorial and must be credited to HSBC/Getty Images.

Please also see below a quote from HSBC Global Head of Sponsorship and Events Giles Morgan

HSBC Global Head of Sponsorship and Events Giles Morgan said: “This isn’t just a breakthrough for Hideki Matsuyama, this is a breakthrough for all of golf. Heading into this year’s WGC-Champions we felt that golf might be on the verge of a new horizon and everything that’s happened this week proves we were right track. Just look at the leaderboard and our new champion. We simply didn’t predict it would happen in such spectacular fashion!

“Congratulations to Hideki on a remarkable performance. As the youngest winner of our event he represents a new breed of rising young stars from Asia and today has written a new chapter in the sport’s history. One we are very proud to be associated with.

“This has been long predicted. We predicted this time would come in our 2020 vision report written in 2012, then again this year from our State of Play 2020 update HSBC Golf Report (http://www.theopen.com/hsbc). So it hasn’t come overnight and is the result of supporting every level of golf for more than a decade in Asia, all starting with this flagship tournament, ‘Asia’s Major’. But now that it’s arrived this feels like a defining moment and couldn’t happen at a better time for golf as it strives to become truly global. To have the first Asian winner of a World Golf Championship event win in Shanghai against the strongest field ever assembled in Asia says all there is to know about our ambition for the game and its bright future.

“When we first brought HSBC Champions to China in 2005 few would have thought the scenes we witnessed today at Sheshan were possible so just think where the game can go from here if grasped. But the unstoppable force of golf in Asia continues.”

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