Liang Wenchong (, born 2 August 1978) is a Chinese professional

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er. He was the highest ranked golfer from the

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and the first Chinese golfer to have reached the top 100 of the

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. He succeeded his mentor Zhang Lianwei as the top Chinese player.

Professional career

Liang has played on the

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and

OneAsia Tour The OneAsia Tour was a men's professional golf tour based in the Asia-Pacific region. The tour was founded in 2009 as a joint venture between the PGA Tour of Australasia, the China Golf Association, the Korean Golf Association and the Korean P ...

. He finished 21st on the 2006 Japan Golf Tour money list, after finishing second at the Fujisankei Classic. In 2008 he was second at the Japan PGA Championship. At the Asia-Pacific Panasonic Open he finished third in 2008 and second in 2009. In 2014 he finished second at the KBC Augusta. After more than a dozen top-10 finishes on the

, he won the 2007 Clariden Leu Singapore Masters, which was co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour and the

European Tour The European Tour, currently titled as the DP World Tour for sponsorship reasons, and legally the PGA European Tour or the European Tour Group, is the leading men's professional golf tour in Europe. The organisation also operates the European ...

. He was the second golfer from the People's Republic of China to win on the European Tour after Zhang Lianwei. In 2007, Liang won the Order of Merit on the Asian Tour, becoming the first from mainland China to do so. In 2009, he finished second at the

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, a European Tour event. On the

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, he finished third at the Lyoness Open and Avantha Masters. In August 2007, he became the first golfer from the People's Republic of China to play in the

PGA Championship The PGA Championship (often referred to as the US PGA Championship or USPGA outside the United States) is an annual golf tournament conducted by the Professional Golfers' Association of America. The PGA is one of the four men's major golf champi ...

. He ended up missing the cut. He also received a special invitation to play in the

2008 Masters Tournament The 2008 Masters Tournament was the 72nd Masters Tournament, held April 10–13 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Trevor Immelman won his first Men's major golf championships, major title, three strokes ahead of runner-up Tiger Wo ...

. In July 2008, Liang became the first Chinese golfer to make the cut at a major,

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at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club. In August 2010, Liang set a new course record at

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with his 8-under 64 in the third round of the 2010 PGA Championship, where he finished eighth. In 2013, Liang won the Resorts World Manila Masters in the Philippines then donated half of his winner's purse of US$135,000 to victims of

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(also known as Typhoon Yolanda) that had recently ravaged the country.

Amateur wins

*1996 China Amateur Open Championship *1997 China Amateur Open Championship *1998 China Amateur Open Championship

Professional wins (21)

European Tour wins (1)

¹Co-sanctioned by the

European Tour playoff record (1–0)

Japan Golf Tour wins (2)

Japan Golf Tour playoff record (0–1)

Asian Tour wins (3)

¹Co-sanctioned by the

Asian Tour playoff record (2–0)

OneAsia Tour wins (4)

OneAsia Tour playoff record (2–0)

Omega China Tour wins (3)

Other wins (9)

*1999 Kunming Classic (China), Dalian Classic (China), Beijing Classic (China), Shenzhen Classic (China) *2000 Shanghai Classic (China), Beijing Classic (China) *2001 Shanghai Classic (China), Davidoff Nations Cup (with Zhang Lianwei) *2002 Dalian Classic (China)

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Results in World Golf Championships

''Results not in chronological order before 2015.'' "T" = tied
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

Team appearances

Alfred Dunhill Cup The Alfred Dunhill Cup was a team golf tournament which ran from 1985 to 2000, sponsored by Alfred Dunhill Ltd. It was for three-man teams of professional golfers, one team representing each country, and was promoted as the "World Team Championsh ...

(representing China):

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

World Cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The event most associated with the name is ...

(representing China):

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

* Dynasty Cup (representing Asia): 2003 (winners), 2005 (winners) * Royal Trophy (representing Asia):

(winners),

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

References

External links

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Profile on the Omega China Tour's official site
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