HANGZHOU · ZHEJIANG · WEST LAKE & TEA HILLS
Hangzhou is where Chinese golf becomes poetry: Fuchun Mountain woven into the river-valley landscape of a Song scroll, tea-terraced hillside courses, mist on the water at dawn. Add Amanfayun in a tea valley and the West Lake — this is the most beautiful golf week in the country.
THE GOLF IN HANGZHOU
Two anchors define Hangzhou golf. Every card below includes how a visitor actually gets on the tee.
HANGZHOU · PAR 72 · 7,110 YD · HEATHLAND STYLE
Painted into the landscape of the Fuchun River scroll: tea terraces on one side, water on the other, mist at dawn. Stay next door at Fuchun Resort and walk to the first tee.
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RESORT ACCESS · STAY & PLAY
HANGZHOU · HILLSIDE · TEA-TERRACE VIEWS
The testing hillside layouts above the tea country west of the lake — narrow tee shots, quick greens, and Longjing pickers on the terraces beyond the ropes. Rounds here end with a tea tasting, as they should.
BEST MAR–MAY & SEP–NOV
VISITOR ACCESS · BOOKED VIA CGTHangzhou is the recommendation when the answer to “what do you want from China?” is beauty rather than trophies. The golf is genuinely good — but the mist on the course at seven in the morning, the tea ceremony at noon and the lake at dusk are why guests rebook this exact week.
For the non-golfers — West Lake by boat and on foot, Longjing tea village tastings, the Longjing shrimp dinner, evening shows on the lake, and Mogan Shan’s bamboo mountains ninety minutes away for a cool mountain night.
A WEEK, ROUGHLY
A three-day spine your plan grows from — arrivals, tee times and the day your non-golfers remember. Every private itinerary is built around your flight times, not a template.
Touch down at 45 min high-speed rail from Shanghai Hongqiao, meet your English-speaking driver, and — if the flight lands before mid-afternoon — take Fuchun Mountain as the opening round. Evening is kept deliberately loose: hot pot, an early night, or whatever the jet lag votes for.
A full day at The Longjing Tea-Belt Courses — and if yesterday's round went quickly, the front nine again after lunch. Non-golfers get the day their way while the golf runs.
A morning without an alarm, then the part of Hangzhou people actually remember — West Lake by boat and on foot, Longjing tea village tastings, the Longjing shrimp dinner, evening shows on the lake, and Mogan Shan’s bamboo mountains ninety minutes away for a cool mountain night. Transfer to 45 min high-speed rail from Shanghai Hongqiao timed to your flight.
WHERE WE PUT YOU
Hotel and villa picks scored on one metric above all: minutes from the first tee, then breakfast, then the view. In that order.
The stay-and-play answer: riverside villas, the course on the doorstep, and Hangzhou’s most restful mornings.
A restored tea village turned Aman resort in a bamboo-and-terrace valley, fifteen minutes from the golf corridor.
COURSE FILES
Each course has its own file: the honest description, who designed it, when it plays best, and how a visitor actually gets on the tee. Open one, or ask us to sequence them into a week.
ASKED BEFORE YOU ASK
And the honest answers. Everything else — visas, weather, your handicap versus that back nine — is one message away.
March – May & September – November — that is the honest window. The greens keep their condition because these are resort-standard courses, and your planner will push you inside the sweet season rather than the cheapest one.
Some of China's best courses are members-first. We hold long-term club relationships precisely so visitors don't have to — tee times are arranged as part of the trip, with caddies, carts and the driver between hotel and clubhouse.
One message with your dates and handicaps. Within a business day you get a day-by-day plan — courses matched to your game, hotels near the tees, drivers, transfers — and a single fixed all-in price. No deposit to see the draft.
DOORS, TRAINS & TEE SHEETS
Forty-five minutes by high-speed rail from Shanghai Hongqiao — many groups golf Shanghai for three rounds, then ride to Hangzhou for the beautiful half of the week. Hangzhou airport also takes direct regional flights.
YOUR DRIVER SPEAKS ENGLISH · YOUR PLANNER IS ONE MESSAGE AWAY · EVERY DETAIL IS OURS
PLAN HANGZHOU WITH US
Courses, hotels, drivers, transfer times and one fixed all-in price. No deposit, no obligation — the first draft is simply ours to make.
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