Call it wishful thinking or just pure luck by Callaway’s newest champion Oliver Wilson already has a visa to travel to China at the end of this month.

Wilson ended a 227 European Tour winless drought to capture Sunday’s concluding Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and with victory earning him a place in next month’s WGC – HSBC Champions event at Sheshan in Shanghai.

However the 34-year old revealed he’s already got himself the necessary visa to journey to China as he had entered the secondary Challenge Tour’s –  the October 16th starting and inaugural Shankai Classic in Chongqing and the following week’s Foshan Open at the Foshan GC in Foshan City, China.

Each event carries a prize purse of $350,000 with a first prize of just over $50,000.

Oliver Wilson and caddy John Dempster, and with Wilson now swapping two Challenge Tour events in China totaling $700,000 in prize money for a $8.5m purse in the WGC – HSBC Champions. (Photo – Stuart Adams/www.golftourimages.com)

However after winning by a stroke at the Home of Golf, the first major reward for Wilson is a start in the November 6th starting WGC – HSBC Champions event and a limited field event carrying a whopping prize purse of $8.5m, and with a first prize of $1.275m which was the amount handed to American Dustin Johnson last year.

“The good thing I have have a visa to go to China as I was going to play the two Challenge Tour events but that all changes now,” Wilson said smiling.

“There is so many things I’m so excited about. Planning the future now, I’ve shut my mind off from all that kind of stuff. It was so far away from where I was, but you know, what was the point thinking about it; to think about getting back into a World Championship event or winning a tournament.

“I knew I was playing good enough to win tournaments, certainly in the last eight or nine years, but to deliver that was nice.”

And accompanying Wilson to Shanghai and the financial capital of China is the club that helped him earn a first prize cheque of over Euro 635,000 and has seen the Englishman go from nowhere and outside the top-100 on the Challenge Tour rankings to 39th on the European Tour Race to Dubai.

“My game has turned around every since putting the new Callaway Big Bertha ‘V’ series driver in the bag,” he said.

“I only changed drivers last week, and I’ve driven the ball probably better than I’ve ever driven it in my life this week which is a combination of the driver and the work Robert Rock has done with me.

“I’ve hit the ball so good on the range for quite a while, but I get out on the course and I couldn’t get it in play off the tee. You know, I have no idea.

“I’ve been hitting driver off the deck for 18 months;  Then I started teeing it up early in the year, which is why my results in the summer probably haven’t been as good as they should have been or could have been. Like I say, it was just rebuilding, rebuilding my game.”