3. Guan makes cut at Masters

After qualifying for the 2013 ­Masters Tournament by winning the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship in 2012, Guan Tianlang became the youngest-ever player to compete in a major golf championship.

And in April at Augusta, he made headlines all over the world again by becoming the youngest player to make the cut in a major event, at just 14 years and five months. After practicing with Guan, world No.1 Tiger Woods said it was "frightening to think that he was born after I won my first masters."

Another shining Chinese teen star is Ye Wocheng. In May he became the youngest player to compete in a ­European tour event when he played in the Volvo China Open in Tianjin, aged 12 years and 242 days.

Feng Shanshan, China's No.1 ­female golfer and the current No.6 in the LPGA rankings, won two events in the 2013 tour: the Reignwood LPGA Classic and the CME Group Titleholders.