According to a report on the website of the British "Guardian" on March 6, the inclusion of golf in the Olympic Games has contributed to the popularity of golf in China. For decades, China banned golf because of its "too serious bourgeois ethos". Now, golf fever is heating up suddenly in China. The sport is more popular in China than any other country in the world.
Along with the golf craze comes high prices. This is no exaggeration at all. According to the latest survey results, there are currently 500 golf clubs in China, with an average membership fee of more than £30,000 in 2008 (£1 is about RMB 10.3). Golf non-member venue rental fees in China are the highest of any country. A round of golf on a weekend costs £100 in China, £5 more than the average rental fee in Dubai and three to four times more than most golf courses in Europe.
Despite the bizarrely high cost of golf, the China Golf Association expects more and more people to play golf in a country of 1.3 billion people.
Last year, golf was added as an Olympic sport. This means that China's national sports system will increase funding for the sport. The head of the China Golf Association said: "Becoming an Olympic event will strongly promote the development of golf in China. A platform will be established through provincial sports departments to popularize the game among young people. Golf in China The movement will achieve great development."
This is indeed the case. The country is expected to have hundreds — if not thousands — of brand new golf courses open in the coming years, with at least 100 of them set to be built on the country’s tropical island of Hainan.
The Chinese government wants to make Hainan a tourist paradise to lure wealthy people from Japan, South Korea and other countries further afield. The locals also gave Hainan the nickname "Golf Development Special Zone".
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