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Mountain low,
expectations high
Here they are - Shanghai’s most challenging and
rewarding courses reviewed in detail. We’ll feature half
a dozen hotspots in every issue of SLICE. And the ball
starts rolling with the exacting and (yes, life is never easy)
the excrutiatingly expensive Sheshan Golf Club. If you
haven’t yet heard of it … trust us, you will. And soon! Read
on and weep for all you’ve been missing.
Any day now, Sheshan
will become a household
name for golfers and golf
fans across our green
and pleasant planet. In November
2005, Tiger Woods will head up an
impressive field of golfing giants at
the HSBC Champions Tournament
in Shanghai. With a purse of US$5
million, it will be the richest and most
prestigious tournament ever held in
Asia, and it will be televised globally.
The star-studded event will attract
event winners from five different PGAsanctioned
tours. Naturally, the venue
of choice is the magnificent Sheshan
Golf Club.
Sheshan’s opening in October
2004 massively raised the bar for
the standard of courses in Shanghai.
Sheshan is currently the polished
yardstick by which others are judged.
With an emphasis on Tuscan
aesthetics and unashamed luxury,
the tranquil,suburban club’s lifetime
membership is by invitation only,
and at a sky-high US$90,000, placing
Sheshan among the most expensive
and elitist in China’s commercial
capital. No walk ons are permitted,
naturally. Only the connected and
the well-heeled get to savour this
impressive and challenging 18-hole
Nelson & Haworth layout.
Located 32 kilometres from the
central business district, Sheshan
is nestled at the base of the area’s
tallest ‘mountain’, which towers …
just 95 metres. A Catholic church,
built in xxx and the most ancient in
China, tops the humble peak and
serves as the club logo. Sequestered
within the already heavily forested
Sheshan Natural Tourism Resort,
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