Sheshan Golf Club

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Updated: 2012-05-15

The Sheshan Golf Club is the first private golf course built in Shanghai. With highly-restricted membership requirements, the club boasts of a world-class championship course and an award-winning clubhouse.

The 18-hole, 72-par golf course designed by NELSON&HAWORTH(a famous designer in the USA)is the only golf course in the city set near a mountain surrounded by a forested hillside.

The golf course holds 1,000-year-old ginkgo trees, a quarry with 80 years of history, Jiangnan style bridges over calm waterways and hills surging ten meters high.

It’s in the shadow of the Basilica of our Lady of Sheshan, the course offers golf challenges and scenic views for every hole.

Having already hosted the HSBC Championship Tournament four times, the course held the WGC-HSBC Championship on November 5-8, 2009.

The Sheshan Golf Club opened in 2004 and received much recognition from the international golf community. In 2009, the golf course was ranked by Golf Digest as No.68 top golf course in the world outside of the US.

The Asian Golf Association awarded the club, “The Best Golf Course in Asia',” in 2008.