Mission Hills

Shenzhen is home to hundreds of factories, one of China’s two mainland stock exchanges, a theme park called Window on the World that features more than 100 miniature versions of monuments like the Taj Mahal, a Soviet aircraft carrier, and, of course, the world’s largest golf resort: Mission Hills.

But this has not stopped the Mission Hills team from achieving another world record.

Last month, they opened the world’s largest practice putting green, a beautiful 17-acre spread of 18 rolling greens and tiny sand bunkers.

Already, the resort boasts 12 world-class golf courses designed by some of the most famous names in the game – Greg Norman, Vijay Singh, and Nick Faldo – and hosts major world tournaments.

Mission Hills is a curious mix of extreme luxury and developing world. It has three spas, 3,000 caddies (all of them women – to seem less intimidating to novice golfers – and all wearing red jumpsuits and plastic helmets). Some 2,000 rounds of golf are played here each day.

The resort abuts the city’s industrial outskirts, and to drive from one end of the resort to the other requires passing a vacuum sealing plant, an electronics factory, and acre upon acre of actively tilled peasant farmland.

Even the staff works to keep up.

中文

深圳市有着上百家工厂；有中国内地两个股市交易所中的一间；有一个名为“世界之窗”的主题公园，以模型的形式向游客展示世界奇观，包括泰姬陵；有前苏联的一艘航空母舰；当然，这城市还包括世界上最大的高尔夫球场，观澜湖。
然而，观澜湖的世界纪录还在刷新。
上个月，观澜湖开放了世界上最大的高尔夫球轻击区，占地17英亩，有着18个滚动果岭和小型沙坑。
这个高尔夫胜地已经建成的12个世界级高尔夫球场由业界最出名的设计师设计，包括诺曼，维杰辛，和费多。球场已经举办过多个世界级高尔夫球赛。
观澜湖集奢华和发展于一身，有着3个健身休闲中心，3000名球童（全部都是女性——为了少影响新手，她们都穿上红色连衫裤和塑胶头盔）。每天大约有2000场的高尔夫球赛在这里举行。
这个高尔夫胜地毗邻城市的工业郊区。开车穿过它时会经过一个真空包装工厂，一个电厂，和连绵的农田。

Shenzhen golf resort firm opens world’s largest practice putting green.

edited by Fanja.