Liang Wenchong
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Professional career
Liang has played on the Asian Tour, Japan Golf Tour and OneAsia Tour. 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 Asian Tour, he won the 2007 Clariden Leu Singapore Masters, which was co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour and the European Tour. 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 Barclays Singapore Open, a European Tour event. On the 2013 European Tour, 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.[1] He ended up missing the cut. He also received a special invitation to play in the 2008 Masters Tournament.[2] In July 2008, Liang became the first Chinese golfer to make the cut at a major, The Open Championship at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club. In August 2010, Liang set a new course record at Whistling Straits 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 Typhoon Haiyan (also known as Typhoon Yolanda) that had recently ravaged the country.[3]
Amateur wins
- 1996 China Amateur Open Championship
- 1997 China Amateur Open Championship
- 1998 China Amateur Open Championship
Professional wins (21)
European Tour wins (1)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 Mar 2007 | Clariden Leu Singapore Masters1 | −11 (64-72-68-73=277) | Playoff | Template:Flagicon Iain Steel |
1Co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour
European Tour playoff record (1–0)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2007 | Clariden Leu Singapore Masters | Template:Flagicon Iain Steel | Won with par on first extra hole |
Japan Golf Tour wins (2)
| Legend |
|---|
| Japan majors (1) |
| Other Japan Golf Tour (1) |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 Jun 2015 | Japan Golf Tour Championship Mori Building Cup Shishido Hills |
−14 (67-68-65-70=270) | 5 strokes | Template:Flagicon Brad Kennedy, Template:Flagicon Ryutaro Nagano, Template:Flagicon Song Young-han |
| 2 | 16 Apr 2017 | Token Homemate Cup | −16 (69-65-66-68=268) | 2 strokes | Template:Flagicon Yoshinori Fujimoto |
Japan Golf Tour playoff record (0–1)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2014 | RZ Everlasting KBC Augusta | Template:Flagicon Hiroyuki Fujita | Lost to par on fifth extra hole |
Asian Tour wins (3)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 Mar 2007 | Clariden Leu Singapore Masters1 | −11 (64-72-68-73=277) | Playoff | Template:Flagicon Iain Steel |
| 2 | 12 Oct 2008 | Hero Honda Indian Open | −16 (60-71-71-70=272) | 1 stroke | Template:Flagicon Darren Beck |
| 3 | 17 Nov 2013 | Resorts World Manila Masters | −16 (67-69-67-69=272) | Playoff | Template:Flagicon Prom Meesawat |
1Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Asian Tour playoff record (2–0)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2007 | Clariden Leu Singapore Masters | Template:Flagicon Iain Steel | Won with par on first extra hole |
| 2 | 2013 | Resorts World Manila Masters | Template:Flagicon Prom Meesawat | Won with birdie on first extra hole |
OneAsia Tour wins (4)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 Oct 2009 | Midea China Classic | −14 (69-65-68-68=270) | 4 strokes | Template:Flagicon Zhang Lianwei |
| 2 | 4 April 2010 | Luxehills Chengdu Open | −9 (72-66-67-74=279) | Playoff | Template:Flagicon Kim Hyung-tae |
| 3 | 29 Aug 2010 | Thailand Open | −18 (67-67-67-69=270) | 1 stroke | Template:Flagicon Namchok Tantipokhakul, Template:Flagicon Michael Wright |
| 4 | 14 Oct 2012 | Nanshan China Masters | −8 (68-67-68-73=276) | Playoff | Template:Flagicon Yang Yong-eun |
OneAsia Tour playoff record (2–0)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2010 | Luxehills Chengdu Open | Template:Flagicon Kim Hyung-tae | Won with birdie on first extra hole |
| 2 | 2012 | Nanshan China Masters | Template:Flagicon Yang Yong-eun | Won with birdie on fifth extra hole |
Omega China Tour wins (3)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 Oct 2005 | Zhuhai Leg | −11 (68-66-71=205) | 4 strokes | Template:Flagicon Li Chao |
| 2 | 9 Apr 2006 | Hainan Leg | −15 (72-65-65-71=273) | 9 strokes | Template:Flagicon Zhang Lianwei |
| 3 | 29 Oct 2006 | Omega Golf Championship | −15 (70-68-67-68=273) | 12 strokes | Template:Flagicon Li Chao |
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
| Tournament | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | CUT | |||||||||||
| U.S. Open | CUT | CUT | CUT | |||||||||
| The Open Championship | T64 | CUT | CUT | |||||||||
| PGA Championship | CUT | T8 | CUT |
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Results in World Golf Championships
Results not in chronological order before 2015.
| Tournament | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Championship | T68 | T30 | |||||||||||
| Match Play | |||||||||||||
| Invitational | T61 | T75 | |||||||||||
| Champions | T40 | T63 | T62 | T24 | T15 | T48 | T58 | T47 | T38 | T43 | T73 | ||
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Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.
Team appearances
- Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing China): 2000
- World Cup (representing China): 2001, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013
- Dynasty Cup (representing Asia): 2003 (winners), 2005 (winners)
- Royal Trophy (representing Asia): 2009 (winners), 2010, 2011, 2013
References
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External links
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- Chinese male golfers
- Asian Tour golfers
- Japan Golf Tour golfers
- European Tour golfers
- Golfers at the 1998 Asian Games
- Asian Games competitors for China
- Sportspeople from Guangdong
- People from Zhongshan
- 1978 births
- Living people
- 21st-century Chinese sportsmen
- 20th-century Chinese sportsmen