2026 Volvo China Open
Venue: Enhance Anting Golf Club, Shanghai, China
2025 Champion: Ashun Wu (CHN)
Prize Fund: USD $2,750,000
Race to Dubai: Tournament 16 of 42
Asian Swing: Tournament 3 of 4
Race to Dubai Points: 3,500
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Player quotes
Ashun Wu:This tournament is very, very important to me. The first win in 2015 sent me to the DP World Tour. It was wonderful, it improved my career and I have opportunity to compete with the top players. Ten years later, I won again. It’s always very happy to win a home country’s open, so I’m very happy and proud.
I wanted to take time and give my elbow time to recover. I took 100% of time off and then I could start to play golf, I think that’s the smart way to play. That’s why I took a lot of time off last year, to take time to recover. Right now, it’s perfect. I don’t have to worry about it, so I think that was a good choice.
I think for everyone, the goal is to win and compete for the title, but it’s tough. In golf, anything can happen, like Rory (McIlroy), he won two times in a row – a special master. That tells us anything can happen, just do your best.
You can see a lot of young players coming from China, playing DP World Tour and on the PGA TOUR. I think there are a lot of juniors playing golf in China, the government and the China Golf Association has improved that. In the future, I think we will see a lot of Chinese players playing on the Tour, not just one, two or three – maybe 10 or 20 or something.
Daniel Hillier: It was incredible (winning the NZ Open). It’s something I have dreamt of since I started playing competitive golf. It definitely wasn’t easy, there were a lot of nerves coming down the stretch there, but to be able to pull it off in front of all my friends and family and my wife was pretty sweet. It was a dream come true.
I’ve obviously got off to a decent start. Looking back on last year, I came close to one of those PGA TOUR cards, so hopefully I can make up that little bit of difference that I didn’t quite manage last year.
I can’t remember the last time I had a break that long, so it was good. I felt a little bit antsy at the end of it, I was ready to get back out. There may be a little bit of rust to get rid of but hopefully that doesn’t last too long.
It’s definitely a strong course, and it’s changed a lot since Tuesday – we obviously had a lot of rain overnight. It’s going from being extremely firm and fast to soft and slow, so there’s a bit of adjustment needed there. You need to be on with you irons especially, you’re going to have your mid-long irons coming into the greens and usually that’s my strength, so hopefully we have another week of that.
Jorge Campillo: It’s a nice goal to have (finishing in the top three of the Asian Swing), but the guys who win the next two events are going to easily pass me, so I really need another top five to make it. It’s quite tough still. I feel like the winners, they have the best chance of making it as it’s just four events, but I will give it another try obviously.
It would be nice, I’m getting old, but I don’t feel old. I played the PGA Championship three times, and it was really bad, all of them, so it would be nice to do it again and have a nice tournament. I think I can do it, but I still have to qualify first.
It feels like so long ago (the last event), with this break we’ve had. My game was in really good shape. Now, it doesn’t feel as good, but I’ve played good in China before. I almost won this event a few times, so hopefully I can play good again, have another top three and make it to the PGA Championship. My confidence is good enough. After a little break, you don’t know how the game is going to be tomorrow, but that’s how golf is.
Eugenio Chacarra: It’s a great course. Obviously with the weather today, it’s going to play completely different – last year, and I heard the first two days, it was firm and fast. This course as firm and fast is a great test, it’s a ball striking course and I tend to love those courses a lot, but we will see what the weather does. It’s still an amazing course. I love the layout, I feel like you need to hit a lot of clubs in your bag, you don’t really need to have any defects in your game. I’m super excited to play it. I feel like my game is going in a good direction and I’m excited to compete tomorrow.
I was number two in the Amateur World Ranking and I know I am capable to be one of the best players in the world on the pro ranking too. That’s been my goal since I was little. I work towards that and I love jumping spots. Obviously, I need to keep playing solid golf. One of the goals this year was to become one of the top 100 players in the world and I am working towards that. Hopefully I can keep playing good golf and good golf takes care of everything.
It’s in the back of my head (the US PGA Championship). I can get there a few different ways. I can play some good golf and get there by World Ranking. Last year, it was 107, the cut, so I am only 13 or 14 spots away from that. I could also get it by the top three of the Asian Swing, so I know there’s lot to play for these two weeks. I am just going to try to focus on having fun, playing my game and seeing where that takes me.
