Considering tennis is his game, Stanley Ho owns a lot of golf courses.
With the opening of his Wu Yi Fountain Palm Golf Club's nine-hole layout in Jiangmen, the Macau casino magnate now owns four golf courses around the region. When fully completed, the new addition will be among the best the mainland has to offer.
The club's executive director, Angela Leong, said Wu Yi Fountain Palm Golf Club recently sponsored the National Junior Golf Open. More than 80 amateur golfers from the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan participated in the tournament.
Expense does not seem to have been an issue in the construction of the $3 billion project, about an hour's drive from Macau and two hours' journey from Hong Kong. Everything about the resort is first class.
Jack Nicklaus Jr, whose reputation for designing challenging courses has helped him emerge from the shadow of his famous father, was commissioned to design the 27-hole layout, which is scheduled for completion in December.
The first nine holes were opened in April and a second nine will be ready by September.
More than $80 million has been spent on eliminating wet areas and improving the drainage.