Two-time champion Zhang Lianwei is teeing up alongside teen sensation Yang Zihao at the Venetian Macao Open, which opens on Thursday at the Macao Golf & Country Club.

Except for 2003 when he was injured, Zhang, who won the event in 2001 and 2002, has played in every Macao Open since the tournament was launched in 1998.

Yang won the Zhang Lianwei Cup International Junior Invitational earlier this year.