Golf travel
Golf in China
China's golf-travel headline is Mission Hills — a pair of vast, fully public mega-resorts (Shenzhen and Hainan) that between them hold the Guinness record for the world's largest golf facility and more than 20 courses by the game's biggest names.
Year-round; best in the cooler, drier Oct–Apr window; hot, humid summers with typhoon risk Jun–Sep
Golf in China is a young, big-scale story, and no single place tells it better than Mission Hills. Its two resorts — the original in Shenzhen, on the Hong Kong border, and a second on the tropical island of Hainan — are among the largest golf complexes on earth, built at a pace and scale the old golf world has never attempted.
For a travelling golfer the appeal is simple: this is genuinely public, resort-style golf on courses designed by (or branded with) a who's-who of the game — Nicklaus, Norman, Els, Sörenstam, Faldo, Olazábal, Pete Dye — with hotels, spas and easy tee times on site. We start with Mission Hills, the anchor of any China golf trip.