The HSBC Champions is a men's professional golf 72-hole tournament contested annually since 2005 in November on a course designed by Nelson & Haworth at the Sheshan Golf Club in Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
Invitations for the event, which is sanctioned by four – the PGA European, the Asian, and Sunshine Tours and the PGA Tour of Australasia – of the six constituent tours of International Federation of PGA Tours, are issued to all players placed amongst the top fifty in the Official World Golf Rankings; to have, during the calendar year preceding the event, captured at least one tournament title on a sanctioning tour; to have finished the preceding season amongst the top twenty in the European Tour's Order of Merit standings or amongst the five in the Order of Merit standings of any of the other three sanctioning tours; or to have finished first in the Order of Merit standings in either of three developmental tours—the Von Nida and Challenge Tours and the winter swing of the Sunshine Tour. Starting berths are also reserved for eight Chinese amateur and professional players to be selected by tournament organizers and sponsors, whether by qualifying tournament or not.
Although many players, principally Americans, who play primarily on the North American PGA Tour declined invitations to play in 2005, the tournament nevertheless featured several prominent players, including twenty ranked amongst the world's top fifty, and offered a purse of $5,000,000, more than does any other event played in Asia or Oceania. The large prize fund serves not only to recognize and maintain the collective quality of the participant players but also to encourage other players, especially those from the European Tour, to enter, in furtherance of the Tour's efforts to expand into east and southeast Asia, of which the Champions event is, pecuniarily, the most significant manifestation. Any prize money earned counts toward the Order of Merit standings only on the European Tour inasmuch as the $833,333 first place prize would place a player first overall on any of the other three sanctioning tours, irrespective of his performance across the rest of a season.
The title sponsor, the London-headquartered global bank HSBC, is the sponsor of three other professional events: the HSBC World Match Play Championship and women's edition thereof (sanctioned by the LPGA Tour) and the Enjoy Jakarta HSBC Indonesia Open
Winners
| Year | Champion | Country | Performance relative to par |
Margin of victory in strokes |
Runner-up | Country |
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| 2005 | David Howell |  England |
minus-20 | 3 | Tiger Woods |  United States
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| 2006 | Yang Yong-eun |  South Korea |
minus-14 | 2 | Tiger Woods | United States
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