Ace PGA quartet set to tee up for the HK Open

Major winners Weir and Goosen among big names for US$2m event

Tiger-tamer Mike Weir will spearhead a quartet of PGA tour aces at next month's UBS Hong Kong Open.

The former Masters champion - fresh from his stunning victory over Tiger Woods in the Presidents Cup at the weekend - will be joined by two-time US Open winner Retief Goosen, rising star Trevor Immelman and world number nine K.J. Choi at the US$2 million showpiece.

The four - who boast 20 PGA Tour victories between them - will be among the title favourites when the open is staged at the Hong Kong Golf Club in Fanling on November 15-18.

Chinese number one and Asian Tour UBS Order of Merit leader Liang Wenchong has already been signed up to lead what promises to be a powerful Asian challenge.

Left-hander Weir and Immelman - the 2006 PGA Tour rookie of the year - will be making their Hong Kong debuts. The pair, along with Goosen, will then go to Shenzhen the following week to take part in the Omega Mission Hills World Cup at the Mission Hills Golf Club.

With his Masters victory at Augusta in 2003, Weir became only the second left-hander to win a major - 40 years after Bob Charles won the British Open - and the first Canadian to do so. He has seven PGA Tour victories to his name and this year finished joint eighth at the British Open at Carnoustie.