Out of the Rough: Volvo China Open (2026)

Following a three week hiatus, the DP World Tour returns to action for the penultimate event of its Asian Swing for this week’s Volvo China Open.

This year marks the 31st anniversary of the Volvo China Open, having been held since 1995 with a one year absence in 2022.

This event is one co-sanctioned between the DP World Tour and the China Tour. 

The Volvo China Open has been a part of the DP World Tour schedule since 2004.

This event is a bit nomadic, having been played at 12 different golf courses during its previous 30 years of existence. The Shanghai Silport Golf Club has hosted the most times, at seven. 

Last year’s installment was played at the Enhance Anting Golf Club for the first time. The DP World Tour will return to the Enhance Anting Golf Club for this year’s installment as well.

The Field

With the Tour returning to action in China, many of the DP World Tour’s biggest names will sit idle this week.

Andy Sullivan (fifth) comes in as the highest ranked golfer within the Race to Dubai standings that will be playing this week.

He’ll be joined by Daniel Hillier (tenth,) Nacho Elvira (13th,) Freddy Schott (15th,) Eugenio Chacarra (16th,) Jorge Campillo (17th,) Jordan Gumberg (18th,) Angel Ayora (19th,) Wenyi Ding (22nd) and Shaun Norris (23rd) as those ranked within the top 25 of the Race to Dubai Standings to be playing this week.

Ashun Wu comes in as the defending champion, topping Jordan Smith by a stroke a season ago to claim victory on home soil at the Enhance Anting Golf Club. Wu also won this event in 2015 at the Tomson Shanghai Pudong Golf Club.

Other former winners of this event, although at various other courses, teeing it up this week include Adrian Otaegui (2024) and Alexander Levy (2017 and 2014.)

The Course

As previously mentioned, this week’s host, the Enhance Anting Golf Club, will host its second Volvo China Open this season. 

It is a Robert Trent Jones Jr. design that was opened in 2005.

It plays as a par-72 at roughly 7,3000 yards on the scorecard.

The Enhance Anting Golf Club is situated to the North of Shanghai in the center of China’s automotive industry.

It was designed in a way to mask the surrounding industrial landscape with the use of constructed mounds around the course.

This parkland style course is best described as a true risk-reward golf course. It is characterized by extensive use of water.

The Enhance Anting Golf Club too boasts attractive bunkering throughout the course.

The combination of both the water and bunkers help create an enjoyable, yet testing layout. This combination too creates the risk-reward style of this golf course.

The course makes it way through lovegrass and fescues, along with native grasses which line both the fairways and the greens this week.

Cedar and Magnolia trees were planted throughout the course to add a feeling of environmental harmony.

In all, what was once a barren wasteland has been transformed into a true golf-oasis in the heart of the Chinese automotive industry.

The Weather

As of the time of writing this, Thursday currently calls for a 60-percent chance of precipitation. Friday calls for a 20-percent chance, Saturday a 10-percent chance and Sunday a 15-percent chance. Temperatures will begin the week at 63-degrees on Thursday before climbing to 72-degrees on Friday. Temperatures will continue to climb across the weekend, reaching 76-degrees on Saturday and 79-degrees on Sunday. Winds are set for 11 miles-per-hour on Thursday before settling to seven miles-per-hour on Friday. Winds will pick back up to ten miles-per-hour on Saturday and finish the week at 12 miles-per-hour on Sunday. 

Key Stats

• Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (SG: TTG)

• Average Driving Distance

• Strokes Gained: Approach (SG: APP)

• Par 5 Average Scoring

• Greens in Regulation Percentage (GIR%)

• Scrambling

• Strokes Gained: Putting (SG: PUTT)

Betting Card

• Jorge Campillo (+2500)

• Freddy Schott (+7500)

• Romain Langasque (+7500)

• Jacques Kruyswijk (+7500)

• Hugo Townsend (+12500)

2025 Betting Card

• Haotong Li (+2200) - T4th

• Shaun Norris (+3500) - T15th

• Alejandro Del Rey (+4000) - T60th

• Jacob Skov Olesen (+8000) - T8th