Liang appointment highlights China’s role in world golf (3)

（People's Daily Online）  13:51, July 15, 2013  

On a broader plane, Liang sees other encouraging signs. “We have the Youth Olympics in Nanjing next year, with golf part of the programme and that should highlight some talented young Chinese players like 16-year-old Dou Ze Cheng, who finished above me in this year’s Volvo China Open and 21-year-old Yu Yang Zhang, the first Chinese player to get her full Ladies European Tour card. The next wave of young players is going to be exciting. There are large numbers of very talented players in the junior ranks of the game, from eight years old and upwards. It’s very important that they stay involved in golf, and it’s very important that their parents approach the development of their children with the right mindset.”

No doubt Liang was buoyed by the appointment, and he got off to the best of possible starts in the Scottish Open with a birdie on the first hole, but even Liang is unaccustomed to the treeless wind-swept links courses of the Scottish game - Chinese courses tend to be manicured parklands in the American style – and he was not able to make the weekend cut.