It is a lot to ask of someone who cannot legally buy a drink in his adopted home of Orlando until August, but Li Hao-tong could finally be the male Chinese star the world of golf has been waiting for.

Kinsale’s Cathal Butler won the Munster Stroke Play Championship at Cork Golf Club yesterday in a sudden death play-off over the host club’s Gary O’Flaherty.

Wu Ashun became the first Chinese player to win a European Tour event on home soil on Sunday as David Howell bogeyed the 72nd hole of the Volvo China Open.