Bryden Macpherson has been a dominant figure in golf in China in recent years and is now hoping to parlay that form into a European Tour card.

The China Golf Association and European Challenge Tour this week stage the first of three co-sanctioned events for 2018 with money earned counting towards the Road to Oman standings.

The top-15 on the Road to Oman at season’s end gain access to the European Tour with the leading player awarded a full card.

As one of the leading players on the China Golf Association Tour, Macpherson will enter the week with expectations of a high finish in what could be the start of a long journey to the world’s second largest Tour.

The China Golf Association Tour is one of two circuits that will run concurrently in that nation this year alongside the PGA TOUR Series-China, a separate entity with ties to the PGA TOUR.

Macpherson is one of seven Australasians in the field for the Belt and Road Colorful Yunnan Open in Kunming, Jack Munro, Maverick Antcliff, Deyen Lawson and New Zealanders Matthew Perry, Fraser Wilkin and Luke Toomey also in the field.

Munro is the only one of the seven to earn a place via the Challenge Tour criteria with the other six all among the top-50 members of the China Golf Association Tour.