Liang Wenchong
| Liang Wenchong | |
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| Personal information | |
| Born |
2 August 1978 Zhongshan, China |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Weight | 160 lb (73 kg; 11 st) |
| Nationality |
 China
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| Residence | Zhongshan, China |
| Career | |
| Turned professional | 1999 |
| Current tour(s) |
Japan Golf Tour Asian Tour |
| Former tour(s) |
European Tour OneAsia |
| Professional wins | 21 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| European Tour | 1 |
| Japan Golf Tour | 2 |
| Asian Tour | 3 |
| Other | 16 |
| Best results in major championships |
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| Masters Tournament | CUT: 2008 |
| U.S. Open | CUT: 2014, 2015 |
| The Open Championship | T64: 2008 |
| PGA Championship | T8: 2010 |
| Achievements and awards | |
| Asian Tour Order of Merit |
2007 |
| OneAsia Tour Order of Merit winner |
2010 |
Liang Wenchong (simplified Chinese: 梁文冲; traditional Chinese: 梁文沖; pinyin: Liáng Wénchōng, born 2 August 1978) is a Chinese professional golfer. He is the highest ranked golfer from the People's Republic of China and the only Chinese golfer to have reached the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking. He has succeeded his mentor Zhang Lian-wei as the top Chinese player.
Liang plays 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.
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