{"id":6075,"date":"2013-12-04T16:17:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T15:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golfcircus.com\/?p=6075"},"modified":"2013-12-04T16:17:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T15:17:23","slug":"jimenez-targeting-fourth-hong-kong-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golfcircus.com\/en\/jimenez-targeting-fourth-hong-kong-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim\u00e9nez targeting fourth Hong Kong title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Miguel Angel Jim\u00e9nez<\/strong> will be hoping to become the second player to win the <strong>Hong Kong Open <\/strong>four times when he tees it up at the historic Fanling venue this week.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament celebrates its 55th edition at <strong>Hong Kong Golf Club<\/strong>, which has hosted every one, and defending champion Jim\u00e9nez would like nothing better than to join <strong>Hsieh Yung-yo<\/strong> of Taiwan as a four-time winner, adding to the titles he won in 2005, 2008 and 2012.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI came here for the first time in 2004 (at the beginning of the 2005 season) and won,\u201d<\/em> said the popular Spaniard, who became the oldest winner in European Tour history with his victory 12 months ago.<em> \u201cI love the city and I especially like the golf course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe history of the golf club makes it very special and the people always make us feel very welcome. It was an honour to win here last year and create a new European Tour record, and of course it would be fantastic to win it for a fourth time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Joining Jim\u00e9nez in the cosmopolitan city are his compatriot Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Dane Thorbj\u00f8rn Olesen Marcus Fraser, who was third here last year thanks to a final round 64, Richard Finch, who earned his spot in the field courtesy of a runner-up finish in last week\u2019s Alfred Dunhill Championship, and American John Daly.<\/p>\n<p>Fraser said: <em>\u201cI love this tournament and love this golf course, and I\u2019ve got some pretty good memories here so hopefully I\u2019ll have more this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe course suits my eye and I tend to do well here \u2013 and it\u2019s in the best shape I\u2019ve ever seen it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole place has got that country club feel to it. It\u2019s very exclusive to be a member here and we\u2019re very lucky to be able to come back and play it every year.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also in the field for the US$1.3million event are China\u2019s teenage stars Jason Hak and Guan Tianlang.  In 2008 Hak became the youngest player ever to make the cut at a European Tour event, a record Guan broke at this year\u2019s Masters Tournament, aged just 14 years and 169 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miguel Angel Jim\u00e9nez will be hoping to become the second player to win the Hong Kong Open four times when he tees it up at the historic Fanling venue this week. The tournament celebrates its 55th edition at Hong Kong Golf Club, which has hosted every one, and defending champion Jim\u00e9nez would like nothing better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/golfcircus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/golfcircus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/golfcircus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golfcircus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golfcircus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/golfcircus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golfcircus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/golfcircus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golfcircus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golfcircus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}