Fanling marks the centre of the golfing universe today, as this year's UBS Hong Kong Open draws to a close. Founded in 1959, the competition was, for its first 10 years, won by only Australian and Taiwanese players, the very first of whom was Lu Liang-huan …
"Mr Lu", as he became known to golf fans the world over, would win the Hong Kong Open again in 1974, but had his finest season three years earlier, when he triumphed at the French Open and finished runner-up at The Open at Britain's Royal Birkdale, behind the great Lee Buck Trevino …
"The Merry Mex" (Trevino is Mexican-American) is known for having a sense of humour - "You know, Columbus went around the world in 1492. That's not a lot of strokes when you consider the golf course" - and was given a cameo role in the 1996 Adam Sandler comedy Happy Gilmore, a film about an unsuccessful ice-hockey player that became noted more for gratuitous product placements than it was for artistic merit. Also appearing as himself in that movie is former television game-show host Bob Barker …