Shanqin Bay Golf Club
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You’ll find Shanqin Bay in the south east of Hainan Island, close to the remote village of Bo’ao, and its fairways occupy a spectacular coastal site on which many thought a golf course could never be built, such is the extremely challenging nature of the topography.
It’s said that a number of design companies declined the chance to work here before the developer acquired the services of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw and that assertion may well be correct because the difficult terrain would undoubtedly deter all but the bravest of architects.
A wide variety of landforms are experienced during a round at Shanquin Bay – from cliffs and chasms to dunes and dense vegetation – as the generously proportioned fairways wind their way around the property.
On the front nine, feature holes include the par four 5th, where the fairway is routed around an irrigation lake then over a ridge to a blind green and the short par thee 8th, played across a gully to a greensite set into a sand dune.
The back nine certainly has its fair share of highlights, including the par threes at 11 and 14, but the holes that really steal the show are the closing set of par fours, beginning at the cliffside 15th – with its wonderful South China Sea vistas – and ending with the testing 18th, where the shallow home green sits precariously on top of a ridge.
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