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China golf development: Boom or bubble? 中国高尔夫是蓬勃发展还是泡沫时代 Thursday, May 26, 2011 - Golf Today: Players, Events and Fields by Richard Mandell Font Size - + | Comment | Tweet | Share | Email | RSS | More | Ask Richard a Question ??? CHINA, May 26, 2011 — China, China, China. The biggest word in golf development over the past few years has been China. With no new development here in the United States, everyone from golf architects to superintendents to contractors and management groups are headed to the other side of the world to gain work. 在过去的几年中，高尔夫发展速度最快的国家非中国莫属，而美国的高尔夫却没有丝毫进展，这导致从高尔夫设计师到草坪总监，从承包商到管理集团都挤破头的往中国涌，来寻找工作。 Since July of 2009, I have made eleven separate trips not just in search of new work but for the one project I have under contract, and luckily, under construction as well. But the process has been interesting, to say the least.? 自从2009年7月至今，我已经完成了11个独自旅行，这其中除了寻找新工作外，还有一个我正在兴建的项目。幸运的是，这个项目进展很顺利，至少可以说很有趣。 Skydoor Golf Club in Hunan Province city of Zhangjiajie, China 天门高尔夫俱乐部 湖南省 张家界市 There are currently six-hundred golf courses open in China. The word is that there are another one-hundred under construction and as many as one-thousand in planning. Personally I have about nine leads that equal about fifteen eighteen-hole equivalents. 目前在中国开业的高尔夫球场由600多座，另有100多座在建中，另外还有1000多座在计划之中。就我个人来说，有9个球场在指导建设，这相当于15个18洞标准球场。 Whether any of them come to fruition is a question that remains to be answered. All of this activity seems awfully strange when one recognizes that the Chinese government banned new golf course construction back in 2004 on mainland China. 他们何时结出硕果尚有待商榷，因为有一个很奇怪的现象，即中国政府早在2004年变禁止修建高尔夫球场了。 The island of Hainan is the only province where the powers that be have embraced golf construction and then for tourism purposes only.? 海南岛是唯一个以旅游为目的，政府批准兴建高尔夫球场的省份。 During my last trip I learned that the government has shutdown all new construction until a full review of all projects is completed. The shutdown started in early May in Yunnan Province and wa