JOURNEY 03 · JIANGNAN · 6 NIGHTS · 4 ROUNDS
Our classic first visit: Shanghai arrival, championship parkland in the city, tea-terrace golf at Hangzhou, and two slow evenings in a Suzhou courtyard house. Five-star beds every night, one driver, zero internal flights.
First-time visitors, couples with shopping-and-gardens companions, corporate trips.
The rhythm — One city at each end, one driver throughout, no internal flights Bund-side or Jing’an five-star; Fuchun Resort; restored Suzhou courtyard house.
THE ROUTE
The spine your dates grow around. Every leg is timed against real traffic, real flight loads and one rule: nobody rides for three hours before a tee time without a good reason.
Arrival base. One championship round in the city, one evening on the Bund — jet lag scheduled around the river, not against it.
The painting round: Fuchun Mountain golf beside the river scroll that painted it first, tea hills on the drive in.
Canal-city finish. Gardens by morning, a last round on the lake, and the farewell dinner your group talks about for a year.
DAY BY DAY
Drive times, beds and meals as we actually plan them. Your itinerary rebuilds this around your flights — the second draft is usually the good one.
Pudong or Hongqiao, met airside of customs, bags and clubs straight into the car. Bund-side check-in, an early dinner if the body wants it — the first day is engineered for sleep, not sightseeing.
The HSBC Champions course, west of the city. Stadium finishes, water carried on commitment, and greens with major-championship memory in them. Visitor access runs through our club relationships — confirmed for your dates, with Tomson Pudong held as the same-day alternative.
A two-and-a-half hour drive into the tea hills. Fuchun Resort is the kind of place people extend trips for; the course rounds the Fuchun River like the scroll that painted it. Afternoon: Longjing tea village or the spa.
Morning round among the tea terraces, afternoon in Hangzhou itself — West Lake by boat or on foot, depending on legs and weather. Evening train-free: the driver takes you north to Suzhou after dinner, or you sleep in Hangzhou and transfer at breakfast.
The gardens morning — Humble Administrator’s, or the quieter Master of the Nets — silk workshop for the interested, tailor fittings delivered to the hotel for the committed. Golfers who cannot sit still have Jinji Lake as an optional bonus round.
A last round on the lake at Jinji Lake Suzhou, or a straight run back to the Bund for shopping and a farewell lunch. Departure timed from either Shanghai airport; clubs packed by the hotel the night before.
THE COURSES ON THIS JOURNEY
Each course links to its full file — designer, terrain, season, and how a visitor actually gets on the tee. Access is confirmed for your dates before anything is paid.
Home of the WGC-HSBC Champions; the stadium course Shanghai is proud of.
A round painted into the Fuchun River landscape; stay at Fuchun Resort or Amanfayun.
Tea-terrace golf ten minutes from West Lake itself.
Lake-side closer on the city’s modern shore; farewell-round geometry.
The held alternative for the Sheshan day — floodlit, blustery, tournament-tested.
THE PRICE, HONESTLY
Per golfer, twin share, all-in: golf with caddies booked, hotels, private car and driver, breakfasts and the listed meals, and a planner on call from landing to take-off. This is a planning band, not a bookable price — the starting figure assumes four golfers travelling together, and the number moves with group size, hotel tier, weekday or weekend golf and your travel dates. Your dated proposal confirms courses, hotel level and every inclusion in writing.
THE SMALL PRINT, LARGE
The two lists that prevent 90% of arguments. If a service is not on the left column, it is on the right — and your proposal repeats both before signature.
ASKED BEFORE YOU ASK
The honest answers. Everything else — visas, your handicap against that back nine, the wine list — is one message away.
If the trip is your first, yes: no internal flights, three very different golf days, and enough city between rounds that companions who never touch a club still rate the week. Groups who want resort-scale golf instead should look at Hainan.
It is a members-first club with a controlled visitor window. We request dated access through our club relationships, hold Tomson Pudong as the protected alternative, and tell you which one is confirmed before anything is paid.
Yes — the common swap is two Suzhou nights for a second Shanghai round. Tell the planner which way the group leans; the itinerary re-cuts in a day.
Three drives over an hour: west to Fuchun (2.5 h), Hangzhou to Suzhou (2 h), and the airport run. Everything else is 20–40 minutes. No drive happens on a golf morning without a warm-up buffer.
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