Hong Kong Golf Club vows not to give up any part of Fanling course for housing
Captain vows to ‘use every means to fight for the integrity’ of historic course
The private club that runs the 170-hectare Fanling golf courses has said it will fight to ensure not even part of it is used for housing development, warning it will take legal action if needed.
With billions of dollars in corporate memberships at stake, the elite 129-year-old Hong Kong Golf Club, one of Asia’s oldest, said it would stand firm against any plan that would see part or all of the historic site razed to help address the city’s chronic housing problems.
The site, run by the club since 1911 under a government lease which expires in August 2020, has become a battleground between the city’s haves and have-nots, with calls mounting for the government to take back the land.
However, club captain Arnold Wong vowed the club would do whatever it could to safeguard the integrity of the course and would not accept any proposal to redevelop even part of the site.