Liang has played on the
Asian Tour,
Japan Golf Tour and
OneAsia Tour. He finished 21st on the 2006 Japan Golf Tour money list, after finishing second at the
Fujisankei Classic. In 2008 he was second at the
Japan PGA Championship. At the
Asia-Pacific Panasonic Open he finished third in 2008 and second in 2009. In 2014 he finished second at the
KBC Augusta. After more than a dozen top-10 finishes on the
Asian Tour, he won the 2007
Clariden Leu Singapore Masters, which was co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour and the
European Tour. He was the second golfer from the People's Republic of China to win on the European Tour after
Zhang Lianwei. In 2007, Liang won the Order of Merit on the Asian Tour, becoming the first from mainland China to do so. In 2009, he finished second at the
Barclays Singapore Open, a European Tour event. On the
2013 European Tour, he finished third at the
Lyoness Open and
Avantha Masters. In August 2007, he became the first golfer from the People's Republic of China to play in the
PGA Championship. He ended up missing the cut. He also received a special invitation to play in the
2008 Masters Tournament. In July 2008, Liang became the first Chinese golfer to make the cut at a major,
The Open Championship at the
Royal Birkdale Golf Club. In August 2010, Liang set a new course record at
Whistling Straits with his 8-under 64 in the third round of the
2010 PGA Championship, where he finished eighth. In 2013, Liang won the
Resorts World Manila Masters in the Philippines then donated half of his winner's purse of US$135,000 to victims of
Typhoon Haiyan (also known as Typhoon Yolanda) that had recently ravaged the country. ==Amateur wins==