Different strokes for different folks

Beijing: China's current professionals have taken unusual paths to their careers in golf.

Liang Wenchong, the first Chinese golfer to play the British Open, practiced his swing as a teenager using sticks of firewood and balls his mother brought home from her job as a groundskeeper on China's first modern course.

Guo Caizhu had never played golf before when she took a caddying job at age 17 at a Kunming club in the hopes of improving her English.

Three years later, she joined China's professional women's golf circuit.

Zhou Xunshu, the 14th ranked player on the Omega China Tour, had never heard of golf before he took at job at age 22 as a security guard at a Guangzhou club.