Kunming Spring City Golf & Lake Resort - Mountain View Course
Course Information
Address Tang Zhi, Yi Liang, Yunnan, China
Designer Jack Nicklaus
Number of holes 18
Par / Length 72 / 7,453 yards (Back Tee)
On Course Traffic Buggy (may access fairway on dry weather)
007 Booking Hotline (852) 2187 3146 (Office Hour) or email us
 
Scorecard Starter Resort      
 
Introduction
Spring City has been rated as Number one golf course in China by US Golf Digest. From Hong Kong, the flying hours to Kunming is around 2 hours 15 mins. Then another one hour ride from airport to Spring City. Here you find 36 holes - Mountainview course by Jack Nicklaus and Lakeview course by Robert Trent Jones Jr.

As a China's number one , how good will it be?
 
 
Club Facilities and Service

The clubhouse is quite big and comfortable. It consisted of 2 restaurants, lobby lounge, proshop, Spa treatment, foot and body massage, conference room etc. There are also hotel rooms and villas. The service is not bad.

 
The Golf


Mountain course was opened at 1992 and designed by Jack Nicklaus. This is my favourite Jack's design course so far I played. It is less forgiving than the others (reasonably wide fairways) and very interesting features with doglegs hole, Island green, long carry holes, a lot of elevation change. The challenge also comes from the wind when it blows. The lightning greens isn't easy to handle if you get use to the slow one in Guangdong's courses.

 
Course Maintenance


It was absolutely perfect when my last visit on 2005. You don't even see a divot on next morning as they replaced them with new turf.
This time (July 2009) I'm a bit disappointed though the quality is still very high. I'd been told that they are under maintenance and it will last for a few week
The quality of the turf can be seen here. rare or done?

 
Caddie Service

Very informative and helpful
 
Hole by Hole Photos
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007 Rating

Good weather, interesting course, high quality course maintenance (Though not perfect as before), what can I want more?
If I have to say, there are rooms of improvement off the course e.g. hotel rooms and villas, more facilities.
The best season to visit is arouns August to September where the flower blooms.
Overall, due to maintenance, drawback to an Ace! 07/09 and sure I will not hesistate to give back an Albatross when the condition back to perfect!

 
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