Situated at foot of the world famous Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, this is the longest golf course in the world with an elevation of about 3,100 meters above sea level. It is only a couple of hours of flight time from Shenzhen (no direct flight from Hong Kong yet), with the higher altitude, Lijiang is much cooler than Hong Kong so I decided to head north to escape the summer heat in Hong Kong.

The clubhouse has a decent size, not hugh but with all the normal facilities such as proshop, restaurant and locker. To be beat the cold, they even have a fireplace, the locker also has a nice & warm indoor pool !

The service of the staff is a little slow but OK, food is reasonably good.

The front 9 is built at the foot of the mountain & by a lake, fairways are quite wide & generous, while the back 9 is more challenging as fairways are built around the slopes with more undulations, doglegs & blind shots. There are also many big & well placed bunkers to catch your wayward shots.

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With the high altitude & thinner air*, one is expected to hit the ball 15-20% longer than at sea level but the course is much longer than those in the Guangdong area, so there is not much advantage gained by hitting the ball longer (of course, you can still tell your mates if your drive went 300 yards!).

*According to the caddies, 10-15% of the players who come to play here will have some sort of high altitude effect, such as mild headache, breathing difficulties etc, so the club provides 2 canisters of oxygen in each cart (need to pay), in fact, 3 of us experienced varying degrees of effect but the smallest (a girl, did not feel a thing) and played quite well!

All teeing grounds, fairways & greens were all in decent shape but still not Spring City quality.

However, the landscaping was quite nice.

Not bad, very acceptable.

The length of the course is a bit scary, I found it difficult to get any GIR.....possibly due to the wet condition when we were there (that's my excuse anyway!).

As we had rain on the day, we were disappointed that we could not peek through the cloud to see the Snowy mountain top but the view is still very nice nonetheless.

There are many tourist attractions around, the ancient city, the world famous Shangri-La, the night show are all not to be missed. Eagle 。6/06

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