Lu Wen-teh will compete in next week's RMB 1 million Luxehills Golf Championship in Chengdu as the second Chinese Taipei invite, joining defending champion Tsai Chi-huang in the year's third Omega China Tour event.

Wong Woon-man and Tang Shing-chi are the two Hong Kong invites, while Lawrence Petryk will again represent Macao.

Young American C.J. Gatto, joint-fourth in the Dell Championship in Xiamen, heads a 10-strong group of foreign PGA members from Qualifying School that also includes South Korean Lee Joung-wook, German Max Kellner and Hong Kong-based Briton James Stewart.

Lu, one of the region's most successful golfers with over 1.3 million U.S. dollars in earnings on the Asian Tour, will be playing his third successive Omega China Tour event as reward for his number one ranking on his domestic circuit.

"I've been playing a lot on the Omega China Tour this year, as I'll always enter if the re's no Asian Tour event the same week," said the 46-year-old, who will be making his first appearance at Luxehills.

"I finished number one on the Taiwan PGA ranking in 2008, which means I have first option on taking up an invite for Omega China Tour events."

Lu last year won the Kunming Championship and Hsu Mong-nan, also from Chinese Taipei, triumphed in Shanghai and Tsai set a record score at Luxehills and followed up with victory in Tianjin.

"Tsai Chi-huang is a good player and very good in competition. I wasn't surprised he won in Luxehills with an 18-under total. He has long been one of the top players in Taiwan," Lu said of his compatriot, a former Asian Tour regular and only the third player to win Chinese Taipei's three 'Majors.

Lu finished ninth in this year's Dell Championship and joint-10th at the Sofitel Zhongshan IGC Open in Nanjing, where he witnessed Kurt Barnes power to victory as 10 PGA Tour of Australasia pros made their debut on the Omega China Tour.

"I've played in several Omega China Tour events since the 2007 Omega Championship in Beijing, so I've witnessed great changes year by year," Lu said ahead of the Luxehills event, which will feature live television coverage on Saturday and Sunday.

"More foreign pros joining the Omega China Tour is good for the mainland players. They all have good golf games, but just need more experience of tournament play and competition. It's added pressure for them, but it's also a chance. They've made great progress already and can improve more."

Lu is often a couple of decades older than his playing partners on the Omega China Tour and memorably held off teenager Benny Ye Jianfeng, almost 30 years his junior, to win in Kunming last April.

However, he has been playing some of his best golf since turning 40, winning four of his five Asian Tour titles since 2005, including back-to-back victories in the Mercuries Taiwan Masters in 2007 and 2008.

"Even if I can play more Omega China Tour events, I'm getting older day by day while China's young players are becoming stronger day by day," Lu said. "They used to learn from me, but now I'm also learning from them!"

Live television marks a significant step for the Omega China Tour, which this year has featured record purses and invited pros from the PGA Tour of Australasia and the Mercedes-Benz Tour of Southeast Asia.