During the course of this week’s WGC – HSBC Champions we were fortunate to also sample some of the golf courses here at Mission Hills.

We played three golf courses – the World Cup course designed by legendary 18-Major winning Jack Nicklaus and then a day later a mixture of holes on the Annika Sorenstam designed Annika Course and the David Duval designed Duval course.

Mission Hills is China’s highest rated golf and leisure resort, and the world’s largest golf club according to the Guinness World Records.

Winner of multiple international awards, the 20-square kilometre golf complex features twelve 18-hole resort and championship courses designed by golf’s greatest legends and architects. Mission Hills is the cradle of golf in China and hosts the region’s most important tournaments, including the World Cup of Golf and the Asian Amateur Championship.

Named in honor of the 41st World Cup of Golf which it hosted in 1995, this critically acclaimed course was designed by 18-time major champion Jack Nicklaus.

Completed in 1994, it’s the first course in China to be accredited by the US PGA for major professional competitions, and many of the world’s greatest players – including Tiger Woods and Greg Norman – have played on it.

The couse is also the winner of multiple international awards and heralded by the authoritative US golf publication LINKS as “one of the ten most significant and influential courses of the last 20 years”, Mission Hills’ World Cup course is widely hailed as one of Asia’s best golfing experiences.

Hereunder is a selection of photographs taken of the World Cup course.

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