This is where the third character comes in. To explain, he cites Chinese sayings such as “where there are policies from above, there are counter-policies from below” and “the mountain is high and the emperor is far away.” What he means is that there is often a disconnect between national policy and local governments who raise revenue by selling their most abundant commodity: land. But Washburn says the answer is obvious to anyone who has lived in China. Despite this, developers added roughly 400 between 20, tripling the number of fairways in the country. At one point, Moore tells Washburn that everyone was “whoring for the business”.īut one contradiction raised questions about how China could build so many courses: in 2004, the central government banned their construction. He worked on Mission Hills, which has 12 immaculate courses at the largest club in the world across the border from Hong Kong, and another 10 on the southern tropical island of Hainan. Over the next two decades, Moore became one of the country’s most prolific course builders. In the same year that Zhou arrived in Guangdong, a young American called Martin Moore landed in southwest China for a golf construction job. ![]() It was only when Deng Xiaoping opened up China in the 1980s that golf started to re-emerge. ![]() After Mao came to power in 1949 he banned the game, which was viewed as a bourgeois pastime of western expatriates and sometimes referred to as “green opium”. Zhou is one of three people whose narratives are woven together in Washburn’s colourful account of the rise of golf in China.
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