Twelve-year-old Chinese golfer Ye Wocheng, who broke records by becoming the youngest ever player to qualify for the European Tour, said he is looking forward to the competition starting this week.
Ye practiced in the northern city of Tianjin on Monday, where he will take part in the May 2-5 European and OneAsia Tour event.
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The schoolboy from China's Guangdong province started playing the sport at the age of four and received professional training from the age of nine.
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Having shot to fame last month when he qualified for the tour, Ye is ambitious for the future.
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[Ye Wocheng 12-Year old Chinese Golfer]:
"In 2010, I went to America to participate in some teenager golf competitions and I got good rankings. I found I was talented at golf. From then on, I had a goal that I would become a top golfer, like Tiger Woods."
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Ye's participation will see him better the mark of his compatriot Guan Tianlang, now 14, who competed last year as a 13-year-old.
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While Ye said the two rising stars got on well, he was clear that he wanted to come out on top.
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[Ye Wocheng 12-Year old Chinese Golfer]:
"In competition, I would consider him (Guan Tianlang) as an adversary and I want to beat him. However, off the course, we are on good terms, we chat and things like that."?
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Twenty-two-year-old professional Chinese golfer Su Dong said the success of the country's young players was good for everyone.
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[Su Dong 22-Year old Professional Chinese Golfer]:
"For us elder players, it's also a good thing. We are encouraged by them. The better these young Chinese golfers of the fourth generation play golf, the more contribution they will make to the development of golf in China. It is also a great encouragement for Chinese golfers even younger than them. Some of them believe that if Guan Tianlang and Ye Wocheng can make it, they can make it too."
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Top Spanish golfer Alvaro Quiros, a six-times winner on the tour, said young players were making an ever greater mark on the sport.
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[Alvaro Quiros Spanish Professional Golfer]:
"I haven't seen him hitting balls, but if he has qualified for the tournament, he should be a good player. Obviously, that's the future, the guys like him, the very young guys. China obviously started to play more golf. So it's going to be easier to see a lot of young talents, like him, I guess."?
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Communist China only built its first golf course in 1984, but interest has boomed along with the country's economy, and it now boasts thousands of courses and countless young players hoping to repeat Ye and Guan's success.
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