YORKSHIRE trio Richard Finch, Iain Pyman and Leeds' Simon Hurd are in the Orient, challenging for big money in the $2,200,000 Volvo China Open in Beijing.
Finch has a victory in this season's New Zealand Open to his name but has missed the cut in three of his 10 starts.
Pyman, a winner on the Challenge Tour in the Kenya Open, returns to the main tour for his eighth event of the year aiming to improv
e on five missed cuts.
Asian Tour member Hurd, who has missed making the final two rounds in the four starts he has been given this year, gains another chance to boost his stock in an event in which Ulster's Graeme McDowell is the highest ranked player.
McDowell finished joint runner-up a year ago to Markus Brier, who became the first Austrian winner on the Tour with his commanding five stroke victory in Shanghai last season.
Meanwhile Leeds caddie David Brooker has helped to guide World number one Lorena Ochoa to qualify for the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame
The accolade came after the Mexican claimed her 21st victory, which came on home soil in the Corona Championship at Tres Marias.
She finished at 25 under par 267 to win by 11 strokes, her 21st career victory after claiming her second major in the recent Nabisco Championship.
One triple-bogey Ochoa carded in the Corona event denied her tieing or breaking the LPGA 72 hole scoring record of 27 under 261 set by Annika Sorenstam in 2001.
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