China, Shanghai has witnessed too superstar, Tiger Woods and Phil Michelson in golf field for swing at Sheshan International Golf Club for Asia’s first World Golf Championship event.

Besides Woods and $7 million in prize money, the tournament highlights China's young but booming golf industry. After the recent decision to add golf to the Olympics in 2016, officials and coaches expect China to offer golf the massive state support that put the country atop the gold medal table at its 2008 Olympics.

China's moment will come in 2020 rather than 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, predicts Yang's coach, American Billy Martin.

"The future of golf is going to be right here," says Martin, head coach at Beijing's Qinghe Bay Golf Club and a former caddie for Jack Nicklaus. "It's growing in leaps and bounds across the country. This is the final frontier."

"After golf entered the Olympics, it will no longer be a sport for the nobility, but will be popularized," says Zhao Baozhong, head coach at Beijing's Riverside Resort Golf Academy. "The government will put in effort in every province. In 10 to 20 years, golf will be like table tennis and badminton, as Chinese golfers will dominate the world rankings," Zhao says.

There will still be challenges: China has few public courses, meaning fees to play are high; and golf clubs pay a 23% "entertainment" tax compared with the 5% levy on other sports clubs.
Woods, too, expects to see a golf boom in China.

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