Tee off beneath the Great Wall on day three — finish barefoot beside the South China Sea on day seventeen. Every China, in one journey.
Sixteen nights, seven rounds, four regions — golf and icons in alternation, with air kept in the schedule so neither ever feels rushed.
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.
Explore the Forbidden City with an expert English-speaking historian who brings six centuries of dynastic history to life hall by hall. Take in the whole palace from Jingshan's peak, then cross the Summer Palace's Kunming Lake by boat.
Play Reignwood Pine Valley, a closely-held private club where Nicklaus fairways climb through the Jundu Mountains with the Wall tracing the ridgeline above — we arrange guest play on your behalf. Then climb the Wall itself at Juyongguan, twenty-five minutes away, on the quietest stretch of ramparts as the light goes gold.
Add a night and a second Beijing round: Ian Woosnam's lakeside fairways beneath the Yanshan range, beside the waters where the world's leaders gathered for the 2014 APEC summit — with a hutong chef's table dinner back in the city.
Imperial China in depth — the golf, the Wall and the courtyards of the capital.
Discover Beijing →Visit the Temple of Heaven, 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.
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.
A day built to order: contemporary art in the West Bund museums, a tailor's fitting on the Bund, architecture from art-deco to the 632-metre Shanghai Tower, or the city's best kitchens back to back. Keen golfers spend it at Sheshan International instead.
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.
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.
Shanghai and Hangzhou in depth — the links, the lake and the water towns between.
Discover Jiangnan →Fly west to Lijiang and check into a Naxi-style villa at 2,400 metres beneath Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, the glacier filling the horizon. A quiet dinner closes the day.
Explore the UNESCO old town in the quiet hours and a Naxi village at the foot of the snow mountain, ending with a private dinner. The day doubles as acclimatisation — tomorrow's course sits at 3,100 metres.
Play Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, the world's longest course at 8,548 yards, where the thin air carries your ball ten percent farther and the glacier fills the sky above every shot.
Travel by rail or a short flight to Kunming, then on to Spring City on Yangzong Lake. Settle in, walk the lakeshore, hit the range — nothing else is asked of the day.
Play Robert Trent Jones Jr's Lake Course, a World Top 100 fixture tumbling toward the water, with no transfers to think about — you stay on the resort itself.
Spring City's other half: Jack Nicklaus' Mountain Course on the ridgeline above the lake. Keen golfers add a night and play both.
South of the Clouds in depth — the golf, the Tea Horse Road and Shangri-La beyond.
Discover Yunnan →Fly ninety minutes south to Hainan and settle into Mission Hills, Haikou, where the volcanic hot springs wait beside the resort and tomorrow's first tee is minutes from your door.
Play Blackstone — carved through a field of black lava, ranked in the World Top 100, and the stage where Tiger met Rory in The Match. The hot springs are waiting off the eighteenth.
Travel south to Shenzhou Peninsula for the closing round at The Dunes, Tom Weiskopf's links through real sand dunes to the water's edge — and stay the night beside the course, the beach at the end of the garden.
Breakfast by the sea after seventeen days and four Chinas, then a private transfer to your flight home — direct connections via Haikou, Hong Kong or Shanghai.
Sun, Sand & Lava in depth — the golf, the surf and the tropical coast.
Discover Hainan →Trim a region, add a round, chase an invitation to Shanqin Bay, bring non-golfers — every journey is rebuilt around your party before anything is booked.
Nicklaus fairways beneath the Great Wall, a wild river links, tea-terrace golf, the world's longest course beneath a glacier, a World Top 100 lakeside, a lava field and a seaside links to finish — no single journey holds a stronger hand.
Round 1 · Signature
Set beneath the Great Wall near Badaling, Reignwood Pine Valley is 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, the Wall tracing the ridgeline above. Membership is closely held; we arrange guest play on your behalf.
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.
Round 4 · Golf at 3,100 m
The most dramatic setting in golf. At 3,100 metres, Jade Dragon stretches to 8,548 yards — the world's longest championship course — yet the thin air carries your ball ten percent farther. Above the fairways, the 5,500-metre glacier fills the sky; we build in two nights of acclimatisation before you play.
Round 5 · World Top 100
The crown jewel of Chinese golf: two courses among the continent's finest, above a highland lake at 2,000 metres. You play Trent Jones Jr's Lake Course — a World Top 100 fixture — and stay on the property, so the day needs no transfers at all. Keen golfers add Nicklaus' Mountain Course above.
Round 6 · World Top 100
The headline course at the world's largest golf resort, carved straight through a field of black volcanic rock. Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy met here in The Match; it holds a place in the World Top 100. Your hotel is inside the resort — first tee minutes away, hot springs at the door.
Round 7 · Oceanside links
A natural links through real sand dunes on a wild stretch of tropical coast — closer in spirit to Ireland than the South China Sea. Tom Weiskopf routed the holes to the water's edge and let the wind do the defending. The round most guests remember longest, and the perfect closing note to seventeen days.
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 Day 6.
All seven rounds are confirmed before you fly — tee times, caddies, carts and guest-play arrangements at the private clubs handled entirely on your behalf, with clubs and shoes hired to spec if you'd rather travel light. Keen golfers add Topwin on Yanqi Lake, Sheshan International or Spring City's Mountain Course — and where it can genuinely be confirmed, an invitation round at Shanqin Bay.
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.
Beijing's grandest address, the Bund's most storied one, a tea-terrace resort, villas beneath the snow mountain, a highland golf estate and the tropical coast — each stay part of the journey itself.
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.
Two natural extensions, woven into the route:
Keep climbing beyond Lijiang — Tiger Leaping Gorge, the lamasery at dawn, Shangri-La.
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Stay on the island and learn to surf — waves built to order at the world's only tropical-island surf pool, an hour up the coast.
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 region
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. Domestic flights are included based on the most suitable available schedule at the time of confirmation; final pricing may vary with travel dates and airfare availability. 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. Non-golfer companion pricing and preferred rates for private groups are available on request.
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