The Great Wall above your fairways, West Lake mist over your farewell morning — the definitive first journey through golf in China.
Seven days, three cities, three rounds — China's most distinctive golf woven through its essential culture, cities, food and scenery, in one concise first journey. Yours will be redrawn around your dates and your party.
Arrive in Beijing, where you are met with fast-track clearance and privately transferred to your hotel a few streets from the Forbidden City. Gather for a welcome dinner of crisp-skinned Peking duck at a courtyard table in the hutong lanes.
Play Topwin Golf & Country Club on Yanqi Lake — the Woosnam course played by President Obama, the Great Wall tracing the ridgelines above fairways that run along the waters where the world's leaders gathered for the 2014 APEC summit.
Climb the Great Wall at Mutianyu, a short drive from your final putt. Years on the ground have taught us exactly which stretch to take, and at which hour — ramparts all but to yourselves, the light going gold over the mountains.
Explore the Forbidden City with an expert English-speaking historian who brings six centuries of dynastic history to life hall by hall. Then board the business-class cabin of a high-speed train south to Shanghai, settle into your hotel on the historic Bund and dine above the lights of two skylines.
Add one extra night in Beijing and play Reignwood Pine Valley — a closely-held private club where Nicklaus fairways climb through the Jundu Mountains north of the capital. We arrange guest play, caddies and clubhouse lunch on your behalf.
Imperial China in depth — the Wall, the golf, the hutongs and where to stay.
Discover Beijing →Play Yangtze Dunes on Chongming Island — a true links through native dunes and wetland, ranked among China's top three modern courses, the world's busiest shipping lane gliding past beyond the dunes. Back in the city, walk beneath the plane trees of the old French Concession.
Play China's most famous course, host of its flagship world-tour event for two decades — the closing stretch around the old quarry has decided more champions than any other holes in Asia. A strictly private members' club; we arrange your game, your caddies and lunch on the trophy terrace.
Jiangnan & Modern China in depth — the Bund, the golf, the concessions and West Lake beyond.
Discover Shanghai →A last Shanghai morning, shaped to your party — the Bund's heritage banking halls, the West Bund museums or a tailor's fitting — then travel an hour south by high-speed rail into Jiangnan, the land "south of the river". Cross West Lake by private boat, the Leifeng Pagoda catching the last light, and dine at a lakeside table the locals guard jealously.
Play Fuchun Golf Club, the only course in Asia routed through the rolling hills of a working Longjing tea plantation, its greens mirrored in still water below grey-tiled pavilions. Tea picked a few metres from the fairway follows the round.
Spend your final morning in Longjing village, home of China's most celebrated tea — walk the terraces with a grower, pick and pan-fire your own leaves in season, and sit down to a farmhouse lunch among the fields. Come evening, a private transfer to Hangzhou's airport — or an hour back to Shanghai — for your flight home.
West Lake, the tea hills and the Fuchun valley — Jiangnan in depth.
Discover Hangzhou →Swap a round for a garden, bring non-golfers, add a night at the foot of the Wall — every journey is rebuilt from scratch around your party before anything is booked.
Fairways beneath the Great Wall at Yanqi Lake, a wild river links and a course threaded through tea terraces — the strongest possible first hand of golf in China.
Round 1 · Signature
The round the journey opens with, in the mountains north of the capital: lakeside fairways beneath the Yanshan range, the Great Wall tracing the ridgelines above, beside the waters where the world's leaders gathered for the 2014 APEC summit — President Obama among those to have played here. An Ian Woosnam design of generous, rolling parkland that turns gold in autumn, with the Wall at Mutianyu a short drive from your final putt.
Round 2 · Wild links
An hour from the Bund, on an island at the mouth of the Yangtze, lies the most surprising round in China — a true links running through native dunes and wetlands, shaped by the celebrated Australian firm OCM. Firm turf, river wind, blind shoulders and greens tucked into the sand: golf that feels closer to the Irish coast than to anything else in Asia.
Round 3 · Tea plantation
Six hundred years ago the Fuchun valley inspired one of China's greatest paintings; today it holds the only course in Asia routed through the rolling hills of a tea plantation. Fairways sweep beneath terraced walls of Longjing tea, greens sit mirrored in still water below the resort's grey-tiled pavilions, and the mist comes and goes all morning. Golf found nowhere else in the game — the perfect closing note.
Optional · Beijing Extension
For golfers who want a fourth round on the card: add one extra night in Beijing and play Reignwood Pine Valley, one of China's most private and prestigious golf clubs — a Nicklaus mountain-parkland layout where elevated tees, sculpted bunkering and fast, guarded greens unfold below the Jundu Mountains. Membership is closely held; we arrange guest play on your behalf.
Optional · Add-On
For golfers who want tournament turf on the card: China's most famous course, and for two decades the host of its flagship world-tour event — Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Phil Mickelson have all chased titles over the closing holes around the old quarry. A Nelson & Haworth parkland of mature camphors, strictly private; we arrange your game and lunch on the trophy terrace, woven into your Shanghai days.
Every round is confirmed before you fly — tee times, caddies and guest-play arrangements at the private clubs are handled entirely on your behalf, with clubs and shoes hired to spec if you'd rather travel light.
A few of the private moments woven between the rounds — each arranged for your party alone.
These are a beginning, not a menu — tell us what your party loves and we'll find its equivalent.
Two nights in the heart of the capital, two above Shanghai's grandest waterfront, two among the tea terraces of the Fuchun valley — each hotel part of the journey itself.
Journey pricing is based on Premium · Luxury is quoted in your private proposal · Fuchun Resort features in both
Prefer a hutong courtyard, a Pudong tower or a resort on West Lake itself? Room categories, alternatives and the level of comfort you choose are set out in your private proposal — every address booked entirely on your behalf.
Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou are the perfect first chapter — and the best-connected. Two natural extensions, each a short flight from where the journey ends:
Spring City's World Top-100 fairways and golf at 3,000 metres beneath Jade Dragon Snow Mountain — China at its most dramatic.
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Links through the dunes at Shenzhou Peninsula, lava-field golf at Blackstone, and a first wave with our surf partners at Wanning.
Explore →Each extension is priced and planned as part of a single seamless journey — one proposal, one team on the ground throughout.
Guest play arranged at China's best courses
Expert-designed golf journeys, customized to suit you
Hand-selected luxury hotels in every city
Deeply knowledgeable, English-speaking private guides
Airport meet and greet with private transfers
One team on the ground, on call around the clock
International flights, visa fees and personal expenses are not included. China now offers visa-free entry for many nationalities — we'll confirm what applies to you.
Based on two golfers travelling and sharing a room at the Premium hotel level. Luxury-level, non-golfer companion pricing and preferred rates for private groups are available on request.
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