九龙湖高尔夫球会

Dragon Lake Golf Club is set within the Dragon Lake resort at 3 Shanqian Tourist Avenue, Huadong Town, Huadu District, backed by long ridges of wooded hills and wrapped around Dragon Lake, whose 2.5 square kilometres of water and 42 square kilometres of catchment give the course a quiet, enclosed landscape. The course was designed by the Canadian firm David Richardson Golf Course Design. Its first eighteen-hole championship layout opened in May 2004, the second, nine-hole floodlit loop followed in November 2006, and the club now offers 27 holes across about 2,600 mu. The A nine is open with wide fairways and water hazards and streams; the B nine is hillier, with dense trees and mountainous ground; the C nine, the floodlit loop, blends the two characters and relies on bunkering for its strategy. A driving range, carts, changing rooms and dining are provided, and individual holes have appeared in Chinese golf hole rankings. The club served as the competition and training venue for golf at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games. It stands on Shanqian Tourist Avenue in Huadong Town and is reached from Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport via the northern extension of the Airport Expressway; the resort also contains hotels, a European-style town and villas, suiting a combination of training and corporate hospitality. The club's three nines can be combined into 18-hole rounds for tournaments and everyday play. The eighteen-hole championship course covers about 1,760 mu, with the floodlit nine added later. Water comes into play on several holes of the A nine, while the B nine climbs into the hills. Tee-time enquiries: 020-36909981.