Liu Yan, a Xiamen golfer born in 1998, began to play golf in 2013 and gradually took part in amateur competitions one year later.

In 2014, Liu Yan began to play professional competitions and made many successful achievements, winning the Best Amateur Award of the 2015 Blue Bay LPGA.

Known as the "black horse," Liu Yan won the first prize in the 2016 and 2017 U.S. Women’s Open Regional Qualification Championships in China, winning playing qualification on the U.S. Women’s Open.

This season she has won her first pro victory on the EFG Hong Kong Ladies Open.