BMW Asian Open

BMW Asian Open
Tournament information
Location	Shanghai, China
Established	2001
Tour(s)	Asian Tour; European Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	$2,300,000
Month played	April
Final year	2008
Tournament record score
Aggregate	262 Ernie Els (2005)
To par	−26 Ernie Els (2005)
Final champion
	Darren Clarke

The BMW Asian Open was a men's professional golf tournament that was co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour and the European Tour. The event was founded in 2001, as part of the European Tour's drive to expand into Asia, and China in particular.

The first two editions were held at Ta Shee Golf and Country Club in Taiwan, before the tournament was moved to the People's Republic of China in 2004, since when it was played at the Tomson Shanghai Pudong Golf Club in Pudong, Shanghai.

In 2005 Ernie Els set a new Asian Tour record for the biggest margin of victory when he triumphed by 13 strokes.^[1] In 2008 the prize fund was $2.3 million, an increase of more than fifty percent from the 2006 fund of $1.5 million.

Winners

Year	Winner	Country	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Ref
2008 (2008)	Darren Clarke	Northern Ireland	280	−8	1 stroke	Robert-Jan Derksen	^[2]
2007 (2007)	Raphaël Jacquelin	France	278	−10	2 strokes	Søren Kjeldsen	^[3]
2006 (2006)	Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño	Spain	281	−7	Playoff (1st hole)	Henrik Stenson	^[4]
2005 (2005)	Ernie Els	South Africa	262	−26	13 strokes	Simon Wakefield	^[5]
2004 (2004)	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	Spain	274	−14	3 strokes	Simon Dyson	^[6]
2002 (2003)	Pádraig Harrington	Ireland	273	−15	1 stroke	Jyoti Randhawa	^[7]
2001 (2002)	Jarmo Sandelin	Sweden	278	−10	1 stroke	Thongchai Jaidee José María Olazábal	^[8]