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Shek O

Cut-price golf rounds too good to be true

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SCMP Reporter

Get out your golf shoes and sun visors. The Shek O golf course is opening up to Joe Bloggs and his mate.

None of that 'members only' stuff any more. One of the best on-course views in Hong Kong is now yours for a mere HK$13.

Well . . . don't get too excited.

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With Li Ka-shing and various Jardine Matheson executives as members, the exclusive club would hardly open its doors to the bus-loads alighting at the Shek O terminus every weekend - unlike the obstacle course on the beach.

A reader and his family visited the seaside over the weekend to soak up the sun and shout their children a quick round of obstacle golf.

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For HK$13, anyone with a golf club can tackle concrete temples and bridges that make up the obstacles on a sandy, exhaust-drenched patch of about 1,500 square feet.

Glancing at his ticket, the reader thought the crazy golf operation was somehow involved in a special deal with the country club - you know, the course up the road, with fairways, tees, greens and caddies.

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