his week's Volvo China Open in Beijing will be the 16th European Tour event staged in the world's most populated country.
The first was in the spring of 2004 in Shanghai where the BMW Asian Open was won by Spaniard Miguel Angel Jimenez.
This week's course, the Beijing CBD International, will be the eighth different Chinese venue to be used on the European Tour during the intervening four years.
Located a few minutes drive from the centre of the city's business district and China's World Trade Tower, the course - designed by Brit Stenson - offers blue grass fairways and bent grass greens.
And for the fifth time, the Volvo China Open is co-sanctioned by both European and Asian Tours.
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