Since 1989, because he wanted to be closer to home and his sponsors preferred him to play in Asia, Chen has competed in the Far East, where he owns six titles on the Japan Tour and two elsewhere in Asia. This is the seventh year Chen and his older brother, T.M., also a former tour pro, have run a junior program at Linkou GC in Taipei, where their father was greenkeeper and they learned the game. With T.M., the club's general manager, T.C. raises funds to defray kids' costs for instruction, green fees and competition -- money that was hard to get when he was growing up. Ming-Chuan Chen, who won a gold medal at the 2007 World University Games in Thailand, came out of T.C.'s junior program. "Currently our junior program has 22 kids, all coached by me, T.M. and a few other volunteer pros," Chen says proudly.