A piece of history could be made this week on the DP World Tour at the Volvo China Open.
Established in 1995, China's national open was added to the DP World Tour's global schedule in 2004 and across the past four decades two players have won the title twice but nobody has won it three times.
However, that could all change with Ashun Wu and Alexander Levy bidding to put their name in the tournament's history books.
Here, as the Asian Swing returns to China for the second time and its penultimate event at Enhance Anting Golf Club, we relive Wu and Levy's two respective triumphs in China.
Alexander Levy (2014 & 2017)
A graduate of Qualifying School in 2012, the Frenchman enjoyed a breakout campaign in 2014 that saw him win the Volvo China Open and Portugal Masters.
Having just retained his card a year earlier, and with one top ten from his first ten starts of the season, there was little to suggest he might challenge at Genzon Golf Club in Shenzhen.
However, on the 20th anniversary edition of the Volvo China Open, Levy made his debut appearance in the event one to remember as he claimed his first professional title.
A second-round 62 saw the then 23-year-old surge into a four-shot lead over Adrian Otaegui and while that was reduced to three heading into the final round, Levy became the 20th different winner of the event despite a double bogey on the 15th threatening to ruin his title bid.
A birdie-birdie finish saw him card a closing 69 for a 19 under par total - four clear of nearest challenger Tommy Fleetwood.
After finishing in a tie for third in a strong defence of his title in 2015, before a top-30 finish in 2016, Levy became the first man to win the Volvo China Open twice as he defeated Dylan Frittelli in a play-off at Topwin Golf and Country Club.
While Levy raced into the early lead with a first-round 63, he found himself seven shots adrift of Frittelli going into the final day in Beijing.
But with the South African and Spaniard Pablo Larrazábal enduring tough closing rounds, Levy made six birdies - including one at the last - to help him into a play-off aginst Frittelli, which he won after rolling in a 15-foot birdie putt at the par-five 18th.
Victory was his fourth on the DP World Tour, having claimed his third in 2016 at the Porsche European Open.
He won his fifth in 2018 at the Trophee Hassan II, but arrives this week in China without full playing privileges after losing his DP World Tour card in 2023.
Ashun Wu (2015 & 2025)
Making history is something at which the Chinese is well versed.
He first played in his national championship in 2008, missing the cut on five of his first seven appearances but he has since become one of the two players to have enjoyed the most success.
It was in 2015 that he became the first Chinese player to win a DP World Tour event on home soil.
In just his 26th start on the DP World Tour, he recovered from an opening 73 to play his way into a four-way tie for the lead heading into the final round at Tomson Shanghai Pudong GC.
With conditions proving challenging and birdies at a premium as a result, Wu - playing in the penultimate group of the day - carded a closing 71 and then watched as co-overnight leader David Howell bogeyed the last to miss out on a play-off.
Wu earned exempt status on the DP World Tour with his victory, having previously made the Japan Golf Tour his home, and has since added titles in Austria, the Netherlands and Kenya.
Last year, he went into the final round at Enhance Anting four shots adrift of 54-hole co-leaders Eugenio Chacarra and Haotong Li.
On the periphery of the chasing pack for much of the final round, he made a Sunday charge with five birdies on his back nine to climb to the top at 14 under and none of the final three groups were able to match that total.
Pushed closest by his final-round playing partner Jordan Smith, Wu's triumph came six days short of exactly ten years on from his maiden success in Shanghai and saw him earn exempt stratus through to the end of the 2026 season.
It came months after losing his full playing privileges on Golf’s Global Tour by just one spot on the Race to Dubai Rankings Delivered by DP World, with a niggling tennis elbow injury since restricting Wu to just 11 starts worldwide prior to his title defence this week.
