Mission Hills Golf Club
The Mission Hills Golf Club , Shenzhen ( China ) recorded the world's largest golf complex . There are already twelve 18-hole courses - each individual course designed by golf greats like Olazábal , Norman , Nicklaus , Faldo and others - a large driving range and various resorts with restaurants, 51 tennis courts and various swimming pools. There is also Asia's largest professional golf shop and a David Leadbetter Golf Academy - a golf school.
The Omega Mission Hills World Cup was held annually on some of the courses from 2007 to 2009 .
There are around 100 shuttle buses a day between Hong Kong and the golf course (around 70 km).
The golf courses
- World Cup Course ( Jack Nicklaus )
- Norman Course ( Greg Norman )
- Annika Course ( Annika Sörenstam )
- Els Course ( Ernie Els )
- Vijay Course ( Vijay Singh )
- Faldo Course ( Nick Faldo )
- Olazabal Course ( José María Olazábal )
- Duval Course ( David Duval )
- Ozaki Course ( Jumbo Ozaki )
- Leadbetter Course ( David Leadbetter )
- Pete Dye Course ( Pete Dye )
- Zhang Lianwei Course ( Zhang Lianwei )
Web links
- Mission Hills Golf Club (English)
- Pavo Prskalo: Chinese giant on 3,000 soccer fields , Shenzhen. In Spiegel Online from March 23, 2007.