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Mission Hills Resort Hainan
Type: Golf Location: 571155, Hainan, Haikou, China Address: No 1 Mission Hills Boulevard |
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Mission Hills Resort Hainan
Type: Golf Location: 571155 Hainan Address: No 1 Mission Hills Boulevard |
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Hainan Island lies just off the south west coast of China and it’s a former agricultural outpost that has quietly evolved into one of the world’s top golfing
hotspots. When the Chu family – proprietors of the mega resort at Mission Hills in Shenzen – came up against government opposition to their
construction plans on the mainland, they simply moved offshore to further develop the brand.
Situated 15 minutes from Haikou, the island’s capital, the site chosen for the latest multibillion dollar Mission Hills resort facility is a seven milelong
property that sprawls out across a landscape of volcanic rock. In keeping with the vast scale of Chu family projects, a nearby clay mountain was
virtually leveled and soil trucked in, 24 hours a day, to cap the entire property under a metre of earth.
So now the twelve course complex at Shenzen on the mainland has been joined by ten courses at the new Hainan resort complex since 2007 and all
of these new tracks (a mixture of 9hole and 18hole layouts) have been built on top of the lava fields under the direction of the Arizonabased
SchmidtCurley Design company.
With fairways characterised by large waste bunkers, the Lava Fields course can be stretched to a mammoth 7,475 yards from the championship tees
and both nines on the course end in some style. Hole 9, at 513 yards, is the longest and toughest par four on the card and the 18th is one of the best
at the resort, a downhill par five with plenty of playing options from tee to green.
In 2011, the 56th World Cup of Golf was played at Mission Hills in Haikou when the Blackstone course hosted the event.
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