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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.

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Jeev Mikha

NEW DELHI: Jeev Milkha Singh’s world ranking of 42 has earned India a rare direct entry into the Mission Hills World Cup to be played at Mission Hills Golf Club in China on Nov 26-29.

The field is selected through each nation’s leading player on the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) as of June 22.

Jyoti Randhawa, who played with Jeev last year in the same event, is likely to be his partner once again. Currently Randhawa at 154th is the next best Indian and Arjun Atwal is ranked 296th.

The leading player may select any player of his choice from the same country provided such player was ranked within the top 100 on the Official World Golf Ranking as of either June 22, 2009, or August 17, 2009.

If there was no other available player from that country within the top 100 on the OWGR on either of the dates, the exempt player’s partner shall be the next highest ranked available player from the same country outside of the top 100 as of August 17.

Besides India, 17 exempt nations have now been confirmed for the 2009 World Cup.

The final field of 28 nations will be completed following three qualifying tournaments to be played in Asia (Kuala Lumpur), Europe (Estonia) and South America (Venezuela), with three countries going through from each regional qualifier to join the 18 exempt nations and hosts, China, at Mission Hills.

Jeev likely to have Jyoti as partner for World Cup

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Australia will be represented by Robert Allenby and Stuart Appleby at this years world cup. The World Cup will be played at the world renowned Mission Hills Golf Resort in Shenzhen China. The World Cup was first played in 1953, it is made up of 28 two man teams. Allenby and Appleby have been life long friends since their jr. golf days back in Australia. For More be sure to visit www.china-golf.us and www.birdieball.com

Mission Hills Norman Course

Allenby and Appleby to play at World Cup.

US-based Golf Digest magazine has released its annual list of what it considers to be the China’s top ten golf courses. According to the magazine’s editors, if you’re looking for China’s best courses, forget Shanghai, Beijing or Shenzhen – the best golf in China is in Kunming.

Kunming took three of the top six spots on Golf Digest’s list, here are the results:

1. Spring City Golf & Lake Resort (Lake course), Kunming, Yunnan province

2. Spring City Golf & Lake Resort (Mountain course), Kunming, Yunnan province

3. Sheshan Golf Club, Shanghai

4. Shenzhen Golf Club, Shenzhen, Guangdong province

5. Tiger Beach Golf Links, Haiyang, Shandong province

6. Lakeview Golf Club, Kunming, Yunnan province

7. Jian Lake Golf & Country Club, Shaoxing, Zhejiang province

8. Trans Strait Golf Club, Fuzhou, Fujian province

9. Pine Valley Golf Resort & Country Club (Old course), Beijing

10. Mission Hills Golf Club (Norman course), Shenzhen, Guangdong province

Kunming ended up beating out the big coastal cities with the top two courses – both at Spring City Golf and Lake Resort. Designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr, Spring City’s Lake course was named best in China, beating out Spring City’s other championship course, the Jack Nicklaus-designed Mountain course.

Kunming reappears at the number six spot on the list with Lakeview Golf Club, which has been the site of the Yunnan stops of the Omega China Tour as well as the Faldo Series Asia.

Shanghai’s Sheshan Golf course rounded out the top three.

Shenzhen is the only other city with multiple courses in Golf Digest’s top ten – Shenzhen Golf Club was named number four, while Mission Hills Golf Club’s Greg Norman-designed course came in tenth.

Editor’s note: This story was cross-posted on China Sports Today

Image: Spring City Golf & Lake Resort

This article is from http://gokunming.com/en/

Annika Sorenstam, the greatest female golfer of all time is now going into her second career full force by agreeing to design new golf courses in China. This is not her first time designing courses in China. She already has a golf course at Mission Hills in Shenzhen.

Sorenstam Committed to Designing Golf Courses in China

The golf sport has been developing fast during the last 20 years in China. In 1982, Hong Kong tycoon Henry Fok started building Chung Shan course in Guangdong Province. At that time, the whole golf course was Hand-built by manual laborers. And it opened in 1984 as the first golf course in China. Today, China has become one of the best golf destinations and the home of the largest golf course which is Mission Hills Golf Club. Hosting five major golf international tournaments, China has  many other interesting features for golf. For more stories, please go to On Course for Growth.

Mission Hills Golf Club

It was hard for Asian amateurs to join the Masters because of the traditions in the old days. Today the creation of the Asian Amateur Championship changes everything. The winner of the new event will earn a spot in the 2010 Masters, according to the statement of Billy Payne, tournament and club chairman. The inaugural Asian Amateur Championship will be held Oct. 29-Nov. 1 at Mission Hills Golf Club, which stretches across Shenzhen and Dongguan.It is the largest golf club  in China designed by 12 world-renowned golf legends.

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Nearly two years without a win, Colin Montgomerie admitted that he has to stop making mental mistakes because he has wasted dozens of shots this week in his 500th European Tour event. Now he is down at 137th in the world. But the next tournament is the Volvo China Open in three weeks.

He doesn’t want to miss this change like the failure of qualifying for The Masters.”I need to focus to get back into winning swing,” admits Colin Montgomerie. Hoping he can avoid the mental errors, Colin Montgomerie  is looking for a win, or at less a top-10 finish. Let’s wait and see in the Volvo China Open.

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Feng Shanshan

Although the popularity of golf develops fast these years, female golfers in China don’t receive the same reputation as male golfers in China. Feng Shanshan, who has created history as the first female golfer from China to play at the 2007 US Women’s Open at the age of 17, hope to change something.

‘Compared to the male golfers from China, the recognition for women golfers is not there yet. It’s normal because golf is not an Olympic sport yet. ‘ said Feng. It’s her dream today to win the LPGA Tour because this is the best way to attract everyone’s attention in China and raise the profile of female golfers.

Actually, as a young professional golfer, she did quite good in the HSBC Women’s Champion. If you want to know more, please Click Here. Read the rest of this entry »