HONG KONG
Golfing in the "City of Life"

Where to play (2)

The Jockey Club Kau Sai Chau, for the time being, the only public course in Hong Kong, is located at Kau Sai Chau in the New Territories. The only criteria to be admitted on one of the two 18-holes is a handicap card, unless playing after 9 p.m. on a weekday being in a group of three of whom at least one must have a handicap.
The Jockey Club's course near Saikung is easily accessible by special golfers' ferries that leave every 20 minutes or so from a public pier for Kau Sai Chau. Opened in December 1995, The Jockey Club Kau Sai Chau Public Golf Course gives the chance to play great golf without having to join a club or pay prohibitive green fees. Kau Sai Chau is one of the most scenic courses in all of Asia.
The 140 hectare golf centre features two 18-hole golf courses designed by Gary Player, a 72-bay floodlit driving range and both indoor and outdoor practice pitching and putting facilities (a new 18-hole course could be added in the future). Located at the northern end of Kau Sai Chau Island, one can enjoy a picturesque and tranquil setting with magnificent views of the Sai Kung hills on the mainland and seaframed landscapes. On some fairways, there are old tombs in protected areas where former natives have been buried in some of the most exciting viewpoints.
As the courses were built from donations to the Jockey Club, priority are given to Hong Kong residents. For overseas visitors, it would be wise to call the club to check for available slots before proceeding to the course.

Discovery Bay Golf Club at Lantau Island, designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. has wonderful views of Kowloon and Hong Kong. But as many other courses owned by Japanese in other countries, it is exclusively reserved to Japanese. New sort of apartheid?

OGC Golf City is a driving range, located on the historic runways and taxiways of the former Kai Tak Airport of Hong Kong where planes landed for years at level of the roofs of the nearby buildings. Nowadays this huge driving range, opened from 7.00 am to midnight, with 250 bays and up to 500 meters hitting distance, offers people of Hong Kong the chance to learn, practice, improve golfing in an exceptional open space: spectacular 360-degree view of Victoria Harbour and Kowloon. Sand bunkers, cheap and putt on real grass green, pro-shop, golf clinics, restaurant from breakfast to diner, different packages for time periods…

City Golf Club is another type of driving range (200 playing bays on 4 tee-off levels) built amid high-rises in the city of Kowloon for working golfers who do not have time to travel a far distance but would like to practice and improve their golfing skill. Just near to Kowloon Station of Airport at 2 minute drive from Western Tunnel Kowloon exit. Clinics, golfing studio, restaurant, massage, clubmakers…

Jockey Club Golf north course

south course

and pro-shop

Driving between

the buildings at City Golf

or on the ancient airport at OGC Golf City Club,
world's largest practice.

HONG KONG Golfing in the "City of Life"

HONG KONG
Golfing in the "City of Life"