11 REGIONS · 15 CITY GUIDES · 600+ COURSES NATIONWIDE
Every golf region on the map, described the way we describe it to friends: what the golf is actually like, when to go, and what the non-golfers will do all day. Start with a region, or let the season decide.
SHANGHAI · MUNICIPALITY · 60-MINUTE COURSE RING
Nobody books Shanghai “for golf” — then plays four rounds in a week.
JIANGSU · SUZHOU & NANJING · HSR FROM SHANGHAI
Jiangsu is the Yangtze Delta’s quiet half: Suzhou’s lake-and-skyline golf and UNESCO gardens, Nanjing’s pine-forest championship course and six dynasties of history — all stitched together by trains that run faster than most countries’ flights.
ZHEJIANG · HANGZHOU & MOGAN SHAN · 45 MIN FROM SHANGHAI
Hangzhou is the poetic capital of Chinese golf: Fuchun Mountain woven into the landscape of a Song-dynasty scroll, tea-terraced hills above West Lake, and bamboo-mountain retreats an hour out of town.
GUANGDONG · SHENZHEN & GUANGZHOU · GOLF SINCE 1984
Modern Chinese golf started here in 1984, on an Arnold Palmer design at Zhongshan.
FUJIAN · XIAMEN · ISLAND & COAST
Xiamen is the relaxed south: a walkable island city of bougainvillea and colonial lanes, with parkland golf on the water’s edge, the UNESCO island of Gulangyu a ferry ride away, and the tea mountains of Anxi an hour inland.
BEIJING · MUNICIPALITY · MEMBERS’ CLUB ACCESS
Beijing’s course count tightened after 2017; what remains is exclusive, quiet and immaculately kept — members’ clubs with Nicklaus pedigrees that simply do not sell tee times.
SHANDONG · QINGDAO · YELLOW SEA COAST
Qingdao is a German-built port city wrapped around a peninsula: red roofs, cliff walks, the Tsingtao brewery — and golf on the coast where the wind changes the course three times a round.
LIAONING · DALIAN · LIAODONG PENINSULA
Dalian is the summer capital of northern China — a boardwalk city of squares and seafood on the Liaodong peninsula, with seaside golf cooled by Yellow Sea winds.
THE SHORTCUTS
Fifteen city guides is a lot. If you tell us the month and the group, we’ll choose for you — this is just the honest shortlist.
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Hainan. Five hours from Seoul or Tokyo into a dry 25-degree week — bays, resorts, visa-free arrival, and the family voting yes.
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The Yangtze Delta and Beijing. Shanghai’s course ring, Hangzhou’s tea hills, the capital’s members’ clubs — each with a full non-golf programme.
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Yunnan at altitude under a snow mountain; Guilin between the karst towers. The rounds you photograph before you score.
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