The Asian Tour's 2012 season reached its 10-event mark with a sprinkling of magical and memorable performances which crowned worthy and new champions on the region's elite circuit. Asia's top stars traversed the length and breadth of the region from India through Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Cambodia, the Philippines and all the way to Korea as they searched for riches and glory in the professional game.

South Africa's Jbe Kruger emerged as the man of hour during the opening, and often hectic, run of events by taking his place at the top of the Order of Merit.

The 2006 Champion and 2011 Volvo Golf Champions winner, Paul Casey, has received the sponsors invite completing the field for the 2012 Volvo World Match Play Championship at Finca Cortesín, Spain, from May 17-20. For the first time in the Championship's history half of the field will be US PGA Tour members and the draw will contain three Spanish players.

Paul Casey, winner of the 2006 Volvo China Open and 2011 Volvo Golf Champions said, "I am very grateful to Volvo for giving me this invite as I would have hated to miss out on what is one of my favourite events of the year. Having been injured at the start of the season, I am beginning to get a little more tournament tough and I think the match play format will suit me very well. I can't wait to see who I will have in my group. Of course, being a Ryder Cup year, this great Championship is even more significant and we will all be out to impress our Captain (José María Olazábal) in every match."

The world of professional golf is full of stories of players who have come through the ranks, but few have come as far or as fast as China's Zhang Xinjun, a OneAsia rising star. The 24-year-old will be teeing it up this week in the 31st GS Caltex Maekyung Open Golf Championship at Namseoul Golf and Country Club in the Korean capital, grateful for the opportunity to play and mindful of his roots.

Zhang, who hails from a village near the old Tang dynasty capital of Xi'an in western China, left school at 15 and set his sights on becoming a security guard, hopeful the 600 renminbi ($95) monthly paycheck would help support his farmer parents. But fate took him by the hand when his first assignment after completing three months of basic training was to a golf course, where the impressionable youngster was immediately struck by the strange, foreign game. Before long he was spending all his spare time on the driving range, learning everything he could with the hope of one day, perhaps, getting a job in golf.

A total of 14 Major Champions will descend on Wentworth Club from May 24-27 when the iconic West Course plays host to the 58th staging of The European Tour's Flagship Event, the BMW PGA Championship. Ireland's quartet of Major winners will be led by World Number Two Rory McIlroy, who will be keen to bolster his collection of titles by triumphing at Wentworth Club, where his highest finish was fifth place in 2009.

McIlroy's close friend Graeme McDowell, the man he succeeded as US Open Champion last year, will also be bidding to take home the lion's share of the €4.5million prize fund, as will the reigning Open Champion Darren Clarke and three-time Major winner Padraig Harrington, who finished in a tie for sixth place on his last appearance at the BMW PGA Championship in 2010.