The latter helped him become the first player to win over RMB1 million in a single season on the circuit and break into the world’s top 200 for the first time. With RMB1,069,920 from nine events, Dou is more than RMB500,000 clear of American Charlie Saxon in the race to win the Order of Merit and a full card on the US-based Web.com Tour, the PGA Tour’s secondary circuit. Even two-time Masters Champion Bubba Watson tipped Dou to be Asia’s next big thing, after playing with him in this year’s Shenzhen International.
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