LINGSHUI, HAINAN · FROM ¥700 / NIGHT TWIN
Clearwater Bay Ulan Resort
The resort beside Hainan’s quietest ranked sea-course — a bay with real sand, and golf without Sanya’s crowds.
LINGSHUI, HAINAN · FROM ¥700 / NIGHT TWIN
The resort beside Hainan’s quietest ranked sea-course — a bay with real sand, and golf without Sanya’s crowds.
WHY THIS HOTEL
The resort beside Hainan’s quietest ranked sea-course — a bay with real sand, and golf without Sanya’s crowds.
Clearwater Bay on Lingshui’s coast is what Sanya looked like twenty years ago: a long white bay, a ranked sea-course (the A Course, China No.92), and resorts at half the Sanya price. The Ulan resort is the closest stay to the clubhouse — walk out of breakfast and onto the practice green.
We use Lingshui as the southern extension of a Sanya week: two nights here for Clearwater Bay, then forty minutes back up the expressway to Yalong Bay or Haitang Bay.
The bay itself earns its name — swimmable in February, which keeps the non-golfing half of the group genuinely happy.
THE GOLF AT THE DOOR
Clearwater Bay is the quiet alternative to Yalong Bay: a 12-kilometre south-facing coast, a Schmidt-Curley 36-hole club next to the hotel, and Sanya’s airport thirty-five minutes away. Two courses, two completely different rounds.
The seaside links: 1,291 mu of coastal ground, a 71,982 sqm artificial lake, eighteen floodlit holes and the only first-line ocean views in the greater Sanya area. Wind is the defence — play it in the morning.
Inland and uphill: 1,141 mu of lakes, coconut groves and small hills, with water in play on the approach rather than off the tee. The friendlier of the two, and the prettier one at sunset.
A full clubhouse with Chinese restaurant, banqueting, nine private dining rooms, a 300 sqm Western restaurant, steam rooms and a floodlit practice range — built for member events, which is why group dining works here.
The Lingshui coast holds several more layouts within an hour. We plan a four-round week around Clearwater Bay’s two courses plus the best of the neighbours, so nobody plays the same eighteen twice.
BEYOND THE GOLF
This is the part your non-golfers care about — and the reason the trip works as a week, not a series of tee times.
The resort fronts a long south-facing beach with reef-protected swimming — calmer than Yalong Bay and considerably less crowded.
Full-service spa and outdoor pools set back from the beach: the standard Hainan rhythm of round, swim, massage, dinner.
Lingshui is a fishing county first: the hotel restaurants and the nearby docks both serve fish that was in the water that morning.
Beach, pools, spa plus day trips to Nanwan monkey island and the Lingshui lagan wetlands — enough for a week without repeating an afternoon.
ASKED BEFORE YOU ASK
Everything else — room categories, caddie arrangements, that back nine your handicap fears — is one message away.
4 courses are profiled above, and a four-night stay comfortably covers three rounds without a single long transfer. Your planner sequences them so the toughest round lands on your freshest morning.
Yes — that is half the reason we book it. Twelve kilometres of coast is the headline, and the full day programme is planned with the same care as the tee sheet.
From about ¥700 per night twin; three-night, three-round Sanya-area packages from ¥3,480 per person. Everything is quoted as one fixed all-in price — room, rounds, caddies, drivers and transfers — so nothing arrives as a surprise on checkout day.
STAY + GOLF, ONE PRICE
Tell us the dates and the group. Day-by-day plan back within one business day, no deposit, no obligation.
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