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SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB
Zhujia Lu, Qingpu County, Shanghai 201713 Tel: 5972-8111, 5972-8520 Fax: 5972-8520
Opened in May 1991, this club has a par-72, 18-hole golf course, a 3-hole practice course, driving range, and three tennis courts. The main clubhouse has a restaurant, bar, library, billiard room, and pro shop, and a second clubhouse includes ten guest rooms, a swimming pool, restaurant and mahjong room. Robert Trent Jones II International designed the course. Japanese management.
Memberships: Waiting list.
Guests: Green fees for a guest accompanied by a Resident Member are RMB450 on weekdays and RMB 700 on holidays. Guests accompanied by Non-Resident Members pay RMB700 on weekdays and RMB900 on holidays. Green fees for Introduced Guests are RMB950 on weekdays and RMB1,150 on holidays. Everyone pays a RMB200 general fee.
Access: Members and guests introduced by members (by phone or fax)

SHANGHAI GRASSLANDS GOLF CLUB
1366 Sanyiba Highway, Xu Jing, Qingpu County, 201702 Tel: 5976-1111,5976-6666x3304, Fax: 5976-7676
This club does not have a golf course, but it does have an impressive ninety-bay driving range. Other facilities include a nine-hole putting green, pro shop, coffee house, and children's play center and arcade. The second development phase will see the completion of an outdoor fun pool and indoor heated pool, tennis courts, bowling alley, restaurants, billiard room, gym, sauna and jacuzzi, pub/discotheque, karaoke, holiday chalets, business centre, and conferencing facilities. Singapore developers.
Membership: Current membership drive has 700 memberships available with individual memberships beginning at US$16,000.
Guests: Driving range open to public. RMB 100 user fee, RMB 30 for 50 balls.

SHANGHAI SUN ISLAND INTERNATIONAL CLUB
Sun Island, Shenxiang, Qingpu County , Shanghai 201714 Tel: 5924-0888 Fax: 5924-1865
The master plan for this first-class leisure and recreation resort includes a golf course, club house, holiday chalets, theme and amusement parks, and a cultural village. The 18-hole golf course was designed by Nelson Wright Haworth Golf Architects, and the 30-bay driving range faces a lake with island-located greens. The club house has convention and business centres, tennis courts, restaurants and a pub, golf pro shop, retail shops, beauty parlor, and a sauna. Singapore developers.
Access: Members and guests introduced by members
Guests: Guests introduced by a member by fax, pay RMB400 on weekdays and RMB800 on weekends.
Memberships: Individual memberships for US$50,000.

TOMSON GOLF CLUB
Tomson Golf (Shanghai) Limited 23rd Floor, Tomson Commercial Building, 710 Dongfang Lu, Pudong, Shanghai 200122 Tel: 5830-8888 Fax: 5830-3388
18-hole championship golf course designed by Shunsuke Kato. Five-star standard clubhouse includes function rooms, restaurants, business centre, tennis courts, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, gym and sauna, bowling and billiards. Several types of residential villas to be constructed. Developed by the Tomson Group from Taiwan. Driving range is operational and the golf course will be opened by the end of September 1996. Villas to be completed by the end of 1996.
Access: Driving range open to public (RMB200). Golf course will be members only.
Memberships: Individual and Corporate: US$88,000, Spouse: US$20,000

JINGLI GOLF ENTERTAINMENT CLUB CO., LTD
888 Tanglu Gong Lu, Jinqiao Development Zone, Pu Dong, Shanghai 201206 Tel: 5834-3452, 5854-0777x2107 Fax: 5834-3317
This club has been open since the end of June, although memberships sold out two years ago. Located in the Jinqiao Export Processing Zone in Pu Dong, it is a par 3 course with 18 holes ranging 80-120 yards in length. There is also a 36 bay driving range, 6 holiday villas, and 19 guest rooms. The clubhouse has an outdoor pool, sauna, fishing pond, gym, billiards, LD projector room, chess/mahjong room, restaurant, and beauty parlor. Developed and managed by a Japanese group, the membership of this club is 80% Chinese.
Access: Members only
Guests: Guests accompanied by member pay RMB200
Memberships: Waiting list.

GRAND SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB
Shanghai Membership Office: Room 1011 Yixiang Building, 1599 Yanan Xi Lu, Shanghai 200050 Tel: 6210-3350 Fax: 6213-0406 Kunshan Membership Office: Post box #18, Zhengyi Town, Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province 215347 Tel: (86 520) 789-2111 Fax: (86 520) 789-2305
This exclusive club, developed by Kunshan Grand Shanghai Enterprise and Development Co., Ltd. is located halfway between Shanghai and Wuxi along the Shanghai/Nanjing Expressway. Grand Shanghai's par 72, 18-hole championship course was designed by The Ronald Fream Golf Plan Design Group. With 9 holes already completed, the 18 hole grand opening is scheduled for October 1996. Until the completion of the country club house in 1997, there is a temporary club house with coffee shop and locker rooms, a pro shop, and driving range. CCA International will manage the Club and adjacent Golf Lodge. The completed club house will have locker rooms, spa, pool terrace and pool bar, CCA Golf academy, tennis courts, pro shop, restaurants, function rooms, social and sporting events. The development plan will also see the construction of a holiday resort with a five star hotel, theme park, marina, homes, and villas. Players are already calling this the best course in the area.
Access: Members and guests accompanied by members. Driving range open to public by appointment (RMB80 per hour).
Memberships: Individual: US$39,000, Corporate (2 nominees): US$80,000
Guests: Must be accompanied by member. Pay RMB410 on weekdays and RMB600 on weekends.

SHANGHAI EAST ASIA GOLF CLUB
Jianguo Xi Lu, Shanghai Tel: 6433-1198
This club is located downtown, hence there is no golf course. It is a good place to practice though. With a two-story practice driving range, anyone can hit a bucket for RMB100. There are also tennis courts, a sauna, pro shop, restaurant and bar.
Memberships: Memberships available. 1-year for RMB2,800, 3 years and up for RMB10,000+.
Access: Open to Public

SHANGHAI SILPORT GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB
Shanghai Liaison Office: Room 7010, Rainbow Hotel, 2000 Yanan Xi Lu, Shanghai Tel: 6275-3388x7010/7011 Fax: 6219-8938
Located on the bank of Kunshan Dianshan Lake, west of Qingpu, this club will feature a 27 hole golf course designed by Bobby J. Martin. The final 9 holes will be completed by the end of September, 1996. Other facilities will include a driving range and clubhouse (to be completed by 1997) with Chinese and western restaurants, function hall, locker rooms and sauna, coffee shop, pro shop, medical care center, swimming pool, and suites. Taiwanese developers.
Access: Members only
Memberships: Individual: US$56,000, Corporate (two nominated members): $100,000


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