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{{Short description|Chinese golf tournament}}
{{Primary sources|date=September 2020}}
{{Infobox golf tournament
| name             = TCL Classic
| image            = 
| location         = [[Hainan Island]], [[People's Republic of China|China]]
| establishment    = 2002
| final_year       = 2007
| course           = [[Yalong Bay Golf Club]]
| par              = 72
| yardage          = {{convert|7172|yd|m}}
| tour             = [[European Tour]]<br>[[Asian Tour]]
| format           = [[Stroke play]]
| purse            = {{currency|1,000,000|USD}}
| month_played     = March
| aggregate        = 263 [[Johan Edfors]] (2006)
| to-par           = −25 ''as above''
| final_champion   = {{flagicon|THA}} [[Chapchai Nirat]]
| map              = China
| map_label        = Yalong Bay GC
| map_caption      = Location in [[China]]
| map_relief       = yes
| map_label_position = top
| map_size         = 200
| coordinates      = {{coord|18.232|109.628}}
}}
The '''TCL Classic''' was a men's [[Professional golf tours|professional golf]] [[golf tournament|tournament]] which was played on a [[Golf course|course]] [[architect|designed]] by American [[Robert Trent Jones, Jr.]] at [[Yalong Bay Golf Club]] in [[Sanya]] on [[Hainan Island]], [[People's Republic of China]] four times between 2002 and 2007.  The first tournament was held at Haiyi Golf Club in Dongguan on Guangdong, China, in 2002. It was the first tournament sponsored by the Chinese company [[TCL Corporation]].

The tournament was first played in [[2002 in sports|2002]], when, as an event sanctioned by the [[Asian Tour]], it was won by [[Scotland|Scotsman]] [[Colin Montgomerie]].  The event was not held in 2003 or 2004 but was reintroduced in [[2005 in golf|2005]] with co-sanctioning from the [[European Tour]] consistent with the latter's expansion to China, in which more Tour events are played than in any other country save the [[United Kingdom]].  In [[2007 in golf|2007]], the tournament offered a [[Prize money|purse]] of [[U.S. dollars|$]]1,000,000, which fund was one of the smallest amongst those of European Tour events. The TCL Classic was dropped from the 2008 schedule.

==Winners==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%"
!Year!!Tour(s){{efn|ASA − [[Asian Tour]]; EUR − [[European Tour]].}}!!Winner!!Score!!To par!!Margin of<br>victory!!Runner-up
|-
| 2007 || [[2007 Asian Tour|ASA]], [[2007 European Tour|EUR]] || {{flagicon|THA}} [[Chapchai Nirat]]||align=center|266||align=center|−22||3 strokes||{{flagicon|ARG}} [[Rafael Echenique]]
|-
| 2006 || [[2006 Asian Tour|ASA]], [[2006 European Tour|EUR]] || {{flagicon|SWE}} [[Johan Edfors]]||align=center|263||align=center|−25||1 stroke||{{flagicon|AUS}} [[Andrew Buckle]]
|-
| 2005 || [[2005 Asian Tour|ASA]], [[2005 European Tour|EUR]] || {{flagicon|ENG}} [[Paul Casey]]||align=center|266||align=center|−22||Playoff ||{{flagicon|IRL}} [[Paul McGinley]]
|-
| colspan=7 align=center|''2003–04: No tournament''
|-
| 2002 || [[2002 Asian PGA Tour|ASA]] || {{flagicon|SCO}} [[Colin Montgomerie]]||align=center|272||align=center|−16||2 strokes||{{flagicon|THA}} [[Thongchai Jaidee]]
|}

==Notes==
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==External links==
*[http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2007/tournamentid=2007020/index.html Coverage on the European Tour's official site]

{{Former European Tour Events}}

[[Category:Former Asian Tour events]]
[[Category:Former European Tour events]]
[[Category:Golf tournaments in China]]
[[Category:Sport in Hainan]]


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