Increase in the number of children who hit the fairways

When South Korean golf coach Park Sang-hun first came to China in 1996, he noted that few Chinese adults played golf, let alone the children.

Now, as golf has gained much prominence in the Chinese sport scene, more children have also chosen golf among a wide range of sport activities, says Park, who used to be a professional golfer until 2005, and has been coaching children in China since 2001.

Although there are no reliable statistics on the number of junior Chinese golfers in 2015, the Forward Management Group, a Chinese leading company in golf industry, estimated in its 2013 industry report that there were more than 32,000 of them in China, and the number is increasing fast.