China's rising golf star, Liang Wenchong, is fast becoming a legend in the making after stunning victories in a number of tournaments that attracted many of the game's top players.

Yet his most recent victory in the China Tour Championship, on October 29, showed the true heart of the 28-year-old golf talent after he donated the entire 150,000 yuan winner's purse back to the event's organizer. Liang suggested the money be used towards setting up a national foundation to help develop young Chinese golf players.

Liang finished the event in story book fashion, beating the runner-up Li Chao by 12 shots, to close out at 15 under par at the Tianan Course in Beijing.

"It is the least I can do," Liang said after returning the prize money. "I am the one who actually received a lot of assistance from all the people who supported me and helped me [in the past].

"I feel this is the right time for me to do something for the rest of China's players and hopefully this will help those who need the financial aid to go abroad and experience the top- level events," he added.

Liang was selected to be a golfer at the age of 15 in 1993. At the time golf was totally foreign to him. The Zhongshan Hot Spring Golf Club, home to Guangdong Province's pioneering golfing program, had noticed the youngster's natural skills and trained him up to the professional ranks by 1999.

Contending with the heavyweights of China's golfing world at a relatively young age, Liang felt satisfied more than challenged. He said the China Tour is a good start for those entering the game professionally, as it is a tour where "we can stand on our own feet and develop ourselves."