Lisa Mason shows a gallery of photos of Tiger Woods smiling big at the WGC-HSBC Champions at Sheshan International Gold Club in Shanghai, China on November 3, 2010.
She says, “He looks truly happy in these photos. Maybe he is finding some happiness again.”
China is building golf courses and China’s growing middle class is taking up golf.
The Golf Travel Gurusays that Hainan Island in the South China Sea is China’s answer to Hawaii and is one of Asia’s finest golfing destinations, with several world-class courses.
Golf Todaysays the first thing one notices about golf in China – after marveling at the game’s sudden popularity – is how many players seem to have decent swings.
In fact, Golf Today says, golf is the latest fashion in Beijing and it is estimated there are 100,000 golfers in China. “The number should double in five years,” T. K. Pen, a Taiwanese-American investor says.
Meanwhile, officials in China are being careful. Golf Today says there are so manygolf courses in China the government is losing count.
Golf courses take up a lot of land. With more than 1.3 billion people to feed, the central government has declared a moratorium on course construction.
However, Slate says, “Almost all of the nation’s 600 or so completed golf courses are illegal in some way.”
Since China grows food on about 10% of its land, turning croplands into golf courses may not be the best way to make a profit.
Discover the Winemaker from Shanxi Province to learn how others are using farmland in China.
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of My Splendid Concubine [3rd edition]. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too. This is the lusty love story Sir Robert Hart did not want the world to discover.
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