A rare event will take place over the New Course at Fanling this week.
Maintaining its traditional position on the domestic calendar, the Lunar New Year will be ushered in with the staging of the Hong Kong Closed Amateur Championship.
Nothing especially significant about that, you might think. Yet the tournament is markedly different from just about any other comparable event around the region and beyond.
Why? Well, quite simply because it is contested by that pure but dying breed of golfer known as the true amateur.
For better or for worse, 'shamateurism' has, for the most part, by-passed the Hong Kong golfing scene.
Nowadays, it's the norm for countries to be represented in international amateur golf competitions by players who are, to all intents and purposes, full-time golfers.