Harbour Plaza Golf Club - China

Harbour Plaza Golf Club is located in Dongguan (Canton), almost midway between Shenzen and Guanzhou, and a 30-minute drive from the Fu Yong Pier, where the Turbo Cat ferry arrives from Hong Kong. Designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr., the course consists of three nines, Lake, Valley, and Lychee. The Lake nine runs along the large Hwang Gang Reservoir, with the third, fourth, and fifth holes playing along the wetlands. The Valley and Lychee nines loop around a series of interlocking ponds and are framed by green mountains and terraced Iychee nurseries.

Chung Shan Hot Spring Golf Club - China

Chung Shan Hot Spring Golf Club opened in 1984, making it the first golf course built in China in the Communist era. It now boasts two of the most highly regarded courses in a booming Chinese golf market, the original course designed by Arnold Palmer, and the second by Jack Nicklaus, opened in 1993. The courses straddle the hills of Shenzen Province, a half-hour drive from the border near Macau. The Nicklaus course, the more challenging of the two, slopes across either side of a 1,000-foot high peak, and like many Nicklaus layouts, it has a roomy, full-cut feel to it, with more than 90 large, terraced bunkers.