A one-hole course at Camp Bonifas that is surrounded by minefields prompting Sports Illustrated to call it 'the most dangerous hole in golf' is at what Asian location?
"Camp Bonifas Camp Bonifas is a United Nations Command military post located 400 meters south of the southern boundary of the Korean Demilitarized Zone. It was 2,400 meters south of the Military Demarcation Line, which forms the border between South Korea (the Republic of Korea) and North Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of Korea). It was returned to the Republic of Korea in 2006. Camp Bonifas is home to the United Nations Command Security Battalion – Joint Security Area, whose primary mission is to monitor and enforce the Korean Armistice Agreement of 1953 between North and South Korea. Republic of"
"through Camp Bonifas. There is a par 3 one-hole ""golf course"" at the camp which includes an Astroturf green and is surrounded on three sides by minefields. ""Sports Illustrated"" called it ""the most dangerous hole in golf"" and there are reports that at least one shot exploded a land mine. Keith Sullivan of ""The Washington Post"" reported in 1998 that Camp Bonifas was a ""small collection of buildings surrounded by triple coils of razor wire just 440 yards south of the DMZ"" that, were it not for the minefields and soldiers, would ""look like a big Boy Scout camp"". Camp"
"Angkor Golf Resort Angkor Golf Resort is an 18-hole golf course located in Siem Reap province, Cambodia. Siem Reap, a resort town in northwestern Cambodia, is the gateway to the ruins of Angkor, the seat of the Khmer kingdom from the 9th–15th centuries. Angkor Golf Resort opened in December 2008 and was designed by British Golfer and former world number 1, Sir Nick Faldo. Built on former rice paddies, Faldo created subtle undulations, water hazard and aggressive bunkering to create challenge but fair test for all levels of golfer. The compact yet contemporary clubhouse offers indoor and outdoor dining, men’s"
"fear the golf courses will destroy the nutrient-poor balance on which their coral reef and mangrove systems depend. In Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in arid regions, golf courses have been constructed on nothing more than oil-covered sand. Players may use a roller on the ""greens"" to smooth the intended path before putting. A course in Coober Pedy, Australia, consists of nine holes dug into mounds of sand, diesel fuel, and oil, with no grass appearing anywhere on the course. Players carry a small piece of astroturf from which they tee the ball. Other Australian golf courses in locations where water"
"the course is Tenniel Chu. Mission Hills Golf Club sponsored the ""Mission Hills Cup"" football match between FC Barcelona and a Mission Hills Invitation XI, which was played at the Hong Kong Stadium on 10 August 2007. Mission Hills Golf Club Mission Hills Shenzhen is a twelve course 18-hole course golf resort, located in the town of Guanlan (觀瀾) in Shenzhen, between the cities of Shenzhen and Dongguan. It is accredited as the world's largest golf facility by the Guinness World Records in 2004, surpassing the Pinehurst Resort in the United States. It currently has 11 championship courses and an"
"Curley’s design credits include 20 courses at China’s Mission Hills Golf Club. Schmidt-Curley designed the 10 courses at Mission Hills Haikou, “World’s Largest Golf Club”, which opened in 2010 and is located one hour north of Hong Kong. The resort’s Lava Fields Course was named the “Best New Course” in the International category by GOLF Magazine in 2011. The Blackstone Course was voted the “No. 1 Course in China” and “Best Championship Course – Asia-Pacific” in 2012 by Asian Golf Monthly. United States of America Egypt Sweden China Brian Curley Brian Curley (born November 12, 1959) is a golf course"
"and became a private country club. The country club’s web site describes Hole 11 as one of the most challenging on the course. It writes, “Par Hole 11 at 616 yards from Blue Tees and you will the hero in your group.” Rio Bravo Country Club Rio Bravo Country Club is an 18-hole private golf course located in the foothills in northeast Bakersfield, California. The course is 7,000 yards on hilly terrain designed by Robert Muir Graves. Since the course is located in the northeast, it is one of a few courses that are naturally hilly.California. Executive Golf Magazine. Accessed"
"Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea () in Incheon, South Korea, is the focal point of Songdo IBD's environmentally focused green space program. It is an 18-hole championship golf course designed by Nicklaus Design, headed by Jack Nicklaus. From the back tees, the course exceeds and presents a challenge to even the most talented golfers. Within the golf course, there will be a Western-style fairway community, including 179 detached single family villas. The club hosted the eleventh Presidents Cup in 2015, the first held in Asia. Before it officially opened, it was the site of a"
"Mission Hills Golf Club Mission Hills Shenzhen is a twelve course 18-hole course golf resort, located in the town of Guanlan (觀瀾) in Shenzhen, between the cities of Shenzhen and Dongguan. It is accredited as the world's largest golf facility by the Guinness World Records in 2004, surpassing the Pinehurst Resort in the United States. It currently has 11 championship courses and an 18-hole par three course, each designed by a different golf personality. Ken Chu, also known as “Mr. Golf"" in China, is the Chairman and CEO for Mission Hills Group. From 2007 through 2009, Mission Hills hosted the"
"Devil's Golf Course The Devil's Golf Course is a large salt pan on the floor of Death Valley, located in the Mojave Desert within Death Valley National Park. The park is in eastern California. It was named after a line in the 1934 National Park Service guide book to Death Valley National Monument, which stated that ""Only the devil could play golf"" on its surface, due to a rough texture from the large halite salt crystal formations. Lake Manly once covered the valley to a depth of . The salt in the Devil's Golf Course consists of the minerals that"
"From 2007 through 2009 the tournament was held at the Mission Hills Golf Club in Shenzhen, China, receiving the name Mission Hills World Cup. There was no tournament in 2010, it having been announced that the event would change from annual to biennial, held in odd-numbered years, to accommodate the 2016 inclusion of golf at the Olympics. The 2011 tournament was at a new venue — Mission Hills Haikou in the Chinese island province of Hainan. The United States has a clear lead in wins, with 24 as of 2016. In 1953, the format was 36 holes of stroke play"
"in course construction is Mission Hills, having created 10 courses. Under construction since 2006, the Mission Hills Haikou is a multibillion-dollar project. This 80 km² complex (1.5 times the size of Manhattan), opened in 2011, will contain 22 golf courses and luxury hotels when fully built out. It will be one of the largest golf complexes in the world. The resort hosted of the World Cup in 2011. Golf in China Golf in China is a growing industry, with numerous golf courses being established, especially in the province of Hainan. There are around 358,000 core players (aged over 18 and"
"Mission Hills Haikou Mission Hills Haikou is a golf complex in Haikou, Hainan, China. Located around 10 km south of the center of Haikou, it comprises 22 golf courses and a ""Centreville"" (downtown) at the north end, which includes numerous restaurants and shops as well as hotels including a Ritz Carlton and Renaissance. The site is 80 km (1.5 times the size of Manhattan) making it the second largest golf complex in the world. The largest is the Mission Hills Golf Club in Shenzhen. Construction started in 2006 but stopped for several months during 2008 because of land disputes. As"
"Kabul Golf Club The Kabul Golf Club is a nine-hole golf course located near Qargha, around 7 miles from the center of Kabul, Afghanistan. Different from other golf courses in the Middle East where desert golf is a new trend, the greens at the Kabul Golf Club are actually brown to black due to their composition of a mixture of sand and oil (which keeps the sand from blowing). Plans for a modern irrigation system are moribund due to lack of funds. Mainly affluent Afghans and foreigners frequent the course. The 2005 entrance fee for The Kabul Golf Club (http://www.kabulgolfclub.org)"
"Golf Course can be reached from Badwater Road via a gravel drive, closed in wet weather. It should not be confused with an actual golf course in Furnace Creek, also in Death Valley. Devil's Golf Course The Devil's Golf Course is a large salt pan on the floor of Death Valley, located in the Mojave Desert within Death Valley National Park. The park is in eastern California. It was named after a line in the 1934 National Park Service guide book to Death Valley National Monument, which stated that ""Only the devil could play golf"" on its surface, due to"
"Spyglass Hill Golf Course The Spyglass Hill Golf Course is a links golf course on the west coast of the United States, located on the Monterey Peninsula in California. The course is part of the Pebble Beach Company, which also owns the Pebble Beach Golf Links, The Links at Spanish Bay, and the Del Monte Golf Course. ""Golf Digest"" has ranked Spyglass Hill as high as fifth on its list of ""America's 100 Greatest Public Courses"". It has also featured in the popular Tiger Woods PGA Tour series of video games, along with ""sister"" course Pebble Beach. Spyglass Hill was"
"golf courses, each incorporating the native lava rock formations, one 518-room five-star hotel, one golf clubhouse, one golf academy, Hainan's only aquatic theme park with 168-pool volcanic mineral springs and one spa center. The Guinness World Records listed Mission Hills Haikou as the ""World's Largest Spa & Mineral Springs"". Chu has brought more than one hundred international tournaments to China. He has also introduced the ""golf and more"" leisure philosophy to Mission Hills' expanding tourism-related businesses. The group's latest development projects include the 500,000 square-meter Mission Hills Centreville and the 330,000 square-meter Mission Hills Lan Kwai Fong - Haikou. These"
"Rio Bravo Country Club Rio Bravo Country Club is an 18-hole private golf course located in the foothills in northeast Bakersfield, California. The course is 7,000 yards on hilly terrain designed by Robert Muir Graves. Since the course is located in the northeast, it is one of a few courses that are naturally hilly.California. Executive Golf Magazine. Accessed May 20, 2010.</ref> It is a championship course, which hosted the Bakersfield Open, a Nike Tour event, between 1990 and 1991. The course was originally designed to be a part of the Rio Bravo Resorts. However, the course was purchased in 1991,"
"was an abandoned airfield called Camp Haven (1949–1959), with a stream running through the middle. Kohler Company CEO Herbert Kohler hired Dye to be the course architect. During construction, the original landscape of the Straits Course was covered with about 800,000 cubic yards (610,000 m) of dirt and sand. Hiroshi Iwata holds the course record for the Straits Course with a 63 in the second round of the 2015 PGA Championship. The second course at Whistling Straits is the Irish Course, an inland grass-and-dune layout. It is a par-72 course that features of golf from the longest tees, with a"
"golf course has been sporadic, and at the mercy of the local security situation. Beginning in 2011, a fund-raising effort has been underway with the goal of restoring the golf course and related facilities. Funds are also being sought to subsidize operations until the war is over, assuming the organization will eventually become a viable business. Kabul Golf Club The Kabul Golf Club is a nine-hole golf course located near Qargha, around 7 miles from the center of Kabul, Afghanistan. Different from other golf courses in the Middle East where desert golf is a new trend, the greens at the"
"these reasons as the tournament had clashed with the Players Championship the previous year, and attributed the cancellation to sponsor discontent with the sanctioning changes. Pine Valley Beijing Open The Pine Valley Beijing Open was a men's professional golf tournament, played in 2007 and 2008. It was held at Pine Valley Golf Club in Beijing, China. Originally an event on the Asian Tour, and co-sanctioned by the Japan Golf Tour in 2008, it became a founding tournament of the OneAsia Tour in 2009. However it was called off just a few weeks before it was due to be held, with"
"say that he had scored 11 holes in one, and that this was on the first round played at the course in 1987, and there were 17 bodyguards who witnessed it. It is not clear whether the exaggerated version was spread by the North Korean state or foreign news reporting. The website of the DPRK Amateur Golf Open credits German player Claudio Consul with the course record, with a score of 71. Pyongyang Golf Course Pyongyang Golf Club is situated on the banks of Taicheng Lake, from central Pyongyang along the Youth Hero Highway. The 18‑hole 72‑par course covers with"
"top 100 of ""Most Beautiful Courses in the World"" by Golf Digest. Victoria Golf Course The Victoria Golf and Country Resort is one of the newest Golf Clubs in Sri Lanka. The resort is situated on a former coconut and coffee plantation, located adjacent to the Victoria Reservoir. The concept was initially conceived by Mark Bostock, the former Chairman of John Keells Holdings in 1950s. The 18-hole golf course was designed to USPGA specifications by golf architects, Donald Steel and Martin Ebert. Construction commenced in 1996 and was completed in January 1999. The course was named ""Best in Asia"" in"
"Punta Brava Golf Club Punta Brava Golf Club is a private golf & surf club currently under development in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico at the tip of the Punta Banda Peninsula. The site is framed by the Pacific Ocean on one side and the Bay of Todos Santos on the other. The course is designed by Tiger Woods. When asked about the vision by CNN the founder, Brian Tucker, stated ""to shape golf history by creating the most spectacular golf course on earth."" In 2006, former Charles Schwab executive, Brian Tucker, set out to develop a world-class golf course after"
"She recently announced a new project at Mines Golf City, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Projects closer to home include a redesign of the Patriots Point Links Course near Charleston, South Carolina and a course at Red Mountain Resort, British Columbia. She and Jack Nicklaus lost out on their bid to build the Olympic golf course in Rio to Gil Hanse and his consultant Amy Alcott. In 2010, a golf course at Golden Bay Resort was opened in South Korea. She designed this golf course, and Hanhwa Hotels & Resorts Corporation developed. This was the first project for her after-retirement golf"
"Pyongyang Golf Course Pyongyang Golf Club is situated on the banks of Taicheng Lake, from central Pyongyang along the Youth Hero Highway. The 18‑hole 72‑par course covers with of green and is approximately long. Its clubhouse covers , includes a pro shop and a restaurant that is said to be the best in the country. In 1994, Park Young-man, the course regular, told Australian journalist Eric Ellis that Kim Jong-il once scored a 34 on the course. Park continued that Kim achieved a Birdie or better on every hole and had five holes-in-one. Later, this claim was further embellished to"
"Pebble Beach Golf Links Pebble Beach Golf Links is a golf course on the west coast of the United States, located in Pebble Beach, California. Widely regarded as one of the most beautiful courses in the world, it hugs the rugged coastline and has wide open views of Carmel Bay, opening to the Pacific Ocean on the south side of the Monterey Peninsula. In 2001, it became the first public course (i.e. open to the general public for play) to be selected as the No. 1 Golf Course in America by ""Golf Digest"". Greens fees are among the highest in"
"Extreme 19th The Extreme 19th is the highest () and longest () par three golf hole in the world, located at the Legend Golf & Safari Resort in the Entabeni Safari Conservatory, Limpopo Province, South Africa. The hole was conceived by the property owners, Peet and Mart Cilliers, along with Graham Cooke of the UK, and David Riddle. The tee, located at the top of Hangklip Mountain, is accessed only via helicopter. Because of its height, a tee shot takes almost 20 seconds to land. A spotter is given a rough direction via radio to look for the ball. The"
"signature hole, the par-3, 17th, known as the ""Island Green,"" one of golf's most recognizable and difficult holes. The course has been featured for many years on the best-selling Tiger Woods PGA Tour series of video games. Dye’s Valley Course has hosted the Web.com Tour Championship since 2013. Built on in the northeastern Florida swampland, it is about a mile west of the Atlantic Ocean. The course contains many challenging features: narrow fairways lined with hazards like marshes and ""waste bunkers"" (long strips of sand that groundskeepers never maintain); dozens of deep ""pot bunkers,"" strategically placed to catch even a"
"completed card they can claim a certificate for playing ""the World’s Longest Golf course."" Nullarbor Links Nullarbor Links is an 18-hole par 72 golf course, said to be ""the World's Longest Golf course"", situated along 1,365 kilometres of the Eyre Highway along the southern coast of Australia in two states (South Australia and Western Australia), notably crossing the Nullarbor Plain at the head of the Great Australian Bight. The idea for the course came from Alf Caputo and Bob Bongiorno, both active in the Eyre Highway Operators Association, over a bottle of red wine at the Balladonia Roadhouse. The course"
"Colomo made a hole-in-one the par-4 9th hole, the first par-four ace in the history of all three co-sanctioning tours. It was his final hole of the day, and he had needed birdie or better to make the cut. AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open The AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open is a men's professional golf tournament, co-sanctioned by the European Tour, Sunshine Tour, and Asian Tour. It began in 2015 and was played at Heritage Golf Club in Bel-Ombre, Mauritius. In 2016 and 2018 the tournament was held at the Four Seasons Resort Mauritius at Anahita, returning to Heritage Golf Club in"
"Pine Valley Beijing Open The Pine Valley Beijing Open was a men's professional golf tournament, played in 2007 and 2008. It was held at Pine Valley Golf Club in Beijing, China. Originally an event on the Asian Tour, and co-sanctioned by the Japan Golf Tour in 2008, it became a founding tournament of the OneAsia Tour in 2009. However it was called off just a few weeks before it was due to be held, with organisers officially citing the state of the course and a clash of dates with The Players Championship on the PGA Tour. Some media commentators dismissed"
"significant swales and undulations. Pine Valley has one of the best collections of par fives and par threes in the world. The course prides itself in being one of the toughest challenges in all of golf, with a slope of 155 from the championship tees. Pine Valley's trademarks are the par three 5th hole, which requires a well-placed 220 yard slightly uphill drive over a lake into a small and sloped green, ""Hell's half acre"" (a barren wasteland on the par five 7th hole which is probably the largest non sea-side bunker in the world), ""The devil's asshole"" (an extremely"