SANYA · HAINAN · 25°C IN JANUARY
Sanya is where China goes on holiday. Championship courses thread the bays and hillsides of the south coast, the resorts are genuinely five-star, and in January you play in shorts then eat on the sand. The rare golf trip that the whole family votes for.
THE GOLF IN SANYA
Sanya’s golf fits its geography: the bays hold resort courses you can walk to from your room, while the hillside clubs above the city trade sea views for elevation and strategy. Every card below includes how a visitor actually gets on the tee.
SANYA · RTJ JR. DESIGN · BAY-SIDE RESORT
A Robert Trent Jones Jr. resort course in the national resort bay — forgiving corridors, serious greens, and the kind of conditioning you can set your watch by. The classic first round in Sanya.
BEST OCT–MAR
RESORT ACCESS · STAY & PLAY
SANYA · HILLSIDE · CITY & HARBOUR VIEWS
Climbs the hillside above the harbour — elevation changes, traded wind directions and twilight rates that make it our favourite second-day course in the city.
BEST OCT–MAR
VISITOR ACCESS · BOOKED VIA CGTSanya is the group-pleaser. It is the trip where the golfer plays a serious hillside course, the kids build sandcastles at a genuinely warm beach in January, and the evening ends at a seafood table with your feet in the sand. For mixed groups, nothing in China beats it.
For the non-golfers — Duty-free malls, a water park, island snorkelling day-trips, hot-spring spas and night markets: Sanya has the deepest non-golf bench on this website.
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 Sanya Phoenix Intl, meet your English-speaking driver, and — if the flight lands before mid-afternoon — take Yalong Bay Golf Club 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 Sanya Luhuitou — 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 Sanya people actually remember — Duty-free malls, a water park, island snorkelling day-trips, hot-spring spas and night markets: Sanya has the deepest non-golf bench on this website. Transfer to Sanya Phoenix Intl 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.
China’s best concentration of international five-stars, walkable to the bay courses — the default for golf-and-beach weeks.
The newer mega-resort coast: bigger hotels, quieter beach, twenty minutes further from the courses.
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.
October – March (peak winter dry season) — 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
Phoenix airport receives direct flights across East and Southeast Asia; from Haikou the high-speed rail runs the east coast in about two hours. Many trips pair the two cities — golf-focused Haikou first, resort Sanya to finish.
YOUR DRIVER SPEAKS ENGLISH · YOUR PLANNER IS ONE MESSAGE AWAY · EVERY DETAIL IS OURS
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