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Ashun Wu will be aiming to create history in Shanghai this week when he tees it up at Enhance Anting Golf Club for the 2026 Volvo China Open.
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The home favourite, who carded a final round 65 last year to secure his second national championship having triumphed a decade earlier, will attempt to become the first player to successfully defend his title and win the Volvo China Open for the third time – a feat that would add to the tournament’s rich 31-year history.
Wu enters the week with just ten events under his belt since his last victory, the reduced schedule a result of a tennis elbow injury that the 40-year-old is confident he has since overcome.
Wu, a five-time DP World Tour winner, will need to outplay a strong field of local and international talent to hold the trophy aloft again, including New Zealand’s Daniel Hillier.
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This week marks Hillier’s first appearance since winning his national open in March, a victory that catapulted him into the top 100 in the Official World Golf Ranking and came mere days after his nuptials to long-time partner Siobhan.
The 27-year-old currently sits tenth in the Race to Dubai Delivered by DP World Tour Rankings and will be eager to pick up right where he left off, having achieved four top ten finishes across six starts so far this season.
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Two players also looking to capitalise this week in Shanghai are Spain’s Jorge Campillo and Eugenio Chacarra.
The pair sit third and fourth on the Asian Swing Rankings respectively and, with the top three players at the conclusion of the swing to earn a place in next month’s US PGA Championship, will be aiming to make their mark in the penultimate event.
They will be joined by a strong Chinese contingent that will look to do their country proud, including 18-year-old Yanhan Zhou and 21-year-old Wenyi Ding.
The pair have enjoyed impressive starts to the DP World Tour season to date; Zhou, the 2025 China Tour Order of Merit winner, finishing in a share of third last month in Hainan and Ding, the 2024 Asia-Pacific Amateur Champion, being runner-up in Australia late last year.
The Volvo China Open, which is co-sanctioned with the China Tour, hosted by the China Golf Association and title-sponsored and promoted by Volvo Cars, was first played in 1995.
This year sees it return to Enhance Anting Golf Club, located in the Jiading region of Shanghai, for a second consecutive year. The total prize fund for the event is US$2.75 million, with 3,500 Race to Dubai points on offer.
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