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Chinese golf’s latest torchbearer [UPDATED]

The kids have been getting all the attention recently – and not just the teens, but those in single digits – though it will take a good few years before any of them progress to the pro ranks. But it’s important to have figures for China’s next generation of golfers to look up to, targets whose records they want to beat, and Wu Ashun – at 28, still young in golfing terms – will today become just the second Chinese male ever to play in the Open Championship.

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Wu Ashun, China’s sole representative in the Open, enjoying his time in Scotland

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