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Hong Kong Golf Club, Fanling

Fanling, New Territories, Hong Kong

A fairway on the Old Course under the trees.
A fairway on the Old Course under the trees. Soybeans, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Opened
1889 (club); Old Course 1911
Architect
Not recorded
Length
6,246 yards
Type
Parkland
Access
Private
Championships
Hong Kong Open (European and Asian Tours)

The club was founded on 10 May 1889, after a notice in the Hong Kong Daily Press invited "gentlemen interested in the royal and ancient game" to a meeting at the Hong Kong Club. It played first in Happy Valley, shared with everything else the colony did outdoors, moved to a nine-hole course at Deep Water Bay in 1898, and then to Fanling in the New Territories, where the eighteen-hole Old Course was completed in 1911.

A lease of thirty acres at Beas River in 1968 let the club expand the Eden into a full championship course; there are now sixty-three holes. The "Royal" in the name was dropped in 1996, ahead of the handover. The Old Course, 6,246 yards through old camphor trees, is the home of the Hong Kong Open, co-sanctioned by the European and Asian Tours.

Water, trees and the towers of the New Territories beyond.
Water, trees and the towers of the New Territories beyond. Wpcpey, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Along a water channel at Fanling.
Along a water channel at Fanling. Wpcpey, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources

Facts: Wikipedia · the club's own site.

Photographs: 1. Soybeans, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons · 2. Wpcpey, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons · 3. Wpcpey, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.