KUNMING · FROM ¥761 / NIGHT TWIN
Spring City Golf & Lake Resort
Two of China’s greatest courses — one Robert Trent Jones Jr., one Jack Nicklaus — on a plateau lake shore where the weather never closes the golf.
KUNMING · FROM ¥761 / NIGHT TWIN
Two of China’s greatest courses — one Robert Trent Jones Jr., one Jack Nicklaus — on a plateau lake shore where the weather never closes the golf.
WHY THIS HOTEL
Two of China’s greatest courses — one Robert Trent Jones Jr., one Jack Nicklaus — on a plateau lake shore where the weather never closes the golf.
Spring City is the closest China comes to a Pebble Beach story: a resort two hours from Kunming, on the shore of Yangzong Lake at 1,700 metres, with two courses ranked inside China’s top twenty and the Lake Course rated among the world’s best. The thin plateau air carries the ball; the light carries the photographs.
The resort hotel is compact and personal — lake-view rooms, a courtyard restaurant that sources from its own gardens, and a practice facility serious players genuinely use. A round here is rarely one round; most guests stay three nights and alternate the two courses.
We build Yunnan weeks around it: Spring City as the base, Kunming Sunshine and Dianchi Lakeside as the variety rounds, then the high-mountain finale at Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in Lijiang.
THE GOLF AT THE DOOR
Spring City is the reason Kunming became a golf city. Both courses sit on Yangzonghai — one climbs the hillside, one follows the shore — and both have been ranked continuously since the late 1990s. We book tee times directly with the club.
The course that carries the rankings: narrow fairways, gullies cutting across the landing zones, terraced greens, and a lake wind that arrives without warning. It is the more demanding of the two and the one to play when your group is fresh.
Nicklaus used the natural fall of the hillside above the lake: open water views on the high holes, quiet forest corridors in between, and greens that accept a running approach. The kinder round — and the better one for a mixed-ability group.
A full practice range with balls and rental clubs at the clubhouse, plus the resort’s caddie training programme — twenty years of coaching behind it, which is why the loopers here read these greens better than most.
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.
Yangzonghai is the resort’s real amenity: morning haze on the water, walking and cycling paths along the shore, and picnic ground where the grass runs down to the bank.
Massage, foot therapy, light therapy, sauna and a communal bathing area — the standard post-round sequence here, and the reason non-golfers report full days without boredom.
Tennis courts, a basketball court, table tennis, billiards, KTV and a mahjong room: enough to fill a rainy afternoon without leaving the estate.
A supervised kids’ club, indoor play space and outdoor playground — this is a resort families book for a week, not a night.
A tea room, lobby lounge, café, bar and outdoor barbecue area — Yunnan’s tea culture taken seriously, which is the small pleasure guests remember.
Function space, a multi-function hall and full wedding service: Spring City doubles as a corporate retreat venue, so the service standard is set for groups.
ASKED BEFORE YOU ASK
Everything else — room categories, caddie arrangements, that back nine your handicap fears — is one message away.
3 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. The lake, not the pool is the headline, and the full day programme is planned with the same care as the tee sheet.
From about ¥761 per night twin; tee times at the ranked courses are negotiated with the club — we handle that conversation. 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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