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The course at South Cape Owners Club is a Kyle Phillips design, set out on a dramatic cliff top property, with ocean views available from all eighteen golf holes.

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The Club at Nine Bridges is located on Jeju Island, the volcanic island south of South Korea’s continental landmass sometimes referred to as Korea’s Maui.

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Anyang Country Club, formerly known as Anyang Benest Golf Club is cut through mature trees, which not only prove a challenge for the crooked driver but also brilliance of seasonal colour.

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The 18 holes at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea are situated within a modern residential development in the Songdo International Business District.

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Woo Jeong Hills Country Club was opened in 1993 and is as close as you can find in Asia to a big, brutish, US tournament golf course.

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Built by the Hyosung Group, one of Korea’s largest industrial conglomerates, the three 9-hole circuits at Wellington Country Club are named after the Greek mythological creatures of the Griffin, Phoenix and Wyvern.

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In a feat of major engineering expertise, three quarters of a million cubic metres of rock was blasted to create the three nines at the very hilly, 425-acre, Whistling Rock property...

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Built for Hanwha Group, one of Korea’s biggest engineering and construction companies, the course at Jade Palace Golf Club was designed by Harley Kruse from the Greg Norman Design team, opening in 2004.

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The same design team that laid out the original Nine Bridges golf course on Jeju Island fashioned Haesley Nine Bridges...

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Gary Roger Baird with David Dale of Golfplan laid out Pine Beach Golf Links along a rocky cliff top. Some have described it as Asia’s version of Pebble Beach and the par three 15th bears a striking resemblance to Cypress Point’s 16th.

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Billionaire Lee Myung-hee commissioned Tom Fazio II to design the course at the ultra-exclusive Trinity Club near Seoul, which opened for play in 2012.

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La Vie est Belle Country Club (life is beautiful in French) is known as “the Korean themed club” since its grand opening in 2015 and it's situated in the hilly, mountainous area of Chuncheon, one hour’s drive away from Seoul.

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Pinx Golf Club boasts breathtaking scenery and the overall course conjures up visions of a watercolor painting.

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First opened in 2010, Blackstone is one of the most exclusive golf clubs in South Korea. It’s located in Icheon, to the east of Kyung Gi province, around a 90-minute drive from downtown Seoul...

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The 27-hole Sagewood Yeosu Gyungdo Golf Resort boasts a marine theme park and 100 condominiums with swimming pools at a rental cost that won’t break the bank.

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The East and South nines at the 27-hole Blackstone Golf Resort may well comprise the best 18-hole configuration at the golf complex but the public North nine has some admirers.

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One of four 18-hole courses at the popular Sky 72 Golf Club golf complex, which is situated near Seoul’s Incheon International Airport, the Ocean course is a Steve Nicklaus design that first opened for play in 2005.

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Fashioned by Nicklaus Design, Sagewood Country Club (formerly Blue Mountain CC) is set in the utmost beauty. 27 holes configured in three 9-hole loops with some of the best conditioning and service we've ever experienced.

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One of several Korean projects undertaken by Robert Trent Jones Jnr since the late 1990s, the 36-hole golf complex at Sky Hill Jeju Country Club occupies a very serene setting...

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Unveiled in 2009, the Jim Fazio-designed course at South Springs Country Club (formerly Phoenix Springs) is owned by the brother of the golf celebrity Seok-kyu Hong, the two-time commissioner on the Korean LPGA.

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The mountain golf course at The Star Hue Golf and Resort is set in Yangpyeong, close to Mount Yongmunsan and Mount Yumyeongsan, where the tree-lined Star and Hue nines extend to 7,211 yards from the back markers.

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Hwasan Country Club opened for play in 1996 and it’s a mountain course with plenty of elevation changes. The signature par three 11th plays to a two-tiered green surrounded by mounds shaped like mini volcanoes.

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Seowon Valley Country Club is situated close to the city of Paju, less than an hour’s drive north of Seoul, the South Korean capital.

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Gapyeong Benest Golf Club is laid out in three nines, named after the trees that predominate on each loop. “Maple” and “Pine” form the premier course though the 3rd on the “Birch” is said to be the signature hole.

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Opened in 2006, Seolhaewon Resort, formerly Golden Beach, is set close to Yangyang International airport, in the northeast of Korea. The resort’s original 27-hole layout was hewn from a pine forest, with the Salmon and Riverview nines comprising the 18-hole layout of first choice.

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DeBeach Golf Club is located on the northern tip of Geoje Island which is set on the warmer, southeastern corner of South Korea.

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The 36-hole golf complex at Montvert Country Club is situated in Pocheon, to the north of Kyeong-gi province and it’s laid out in mountainous territory, near the border with North Korea.

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Robert Trent Jones Jr. has designed several courses in South Korea, including Anyang Country Club, but his creation at Rainbow Hills Country Club sufficiently moved the architectural guru to write a poem...

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Ron Fream of Golfplan designed the course at Sandpine Golf Club, where the tree-lined fairways occupy sandy-soiled, undulating terrain outside the city of Gangneung, home to the indoor events at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

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Set within a beautiful mountain landscape, the East and West nines at the Blue One Sangju Golf Resort are not an easy walk so hiring a buggy is certainly a good idea.

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Described as “a Korean garden in the middle of the mountains,” the course at Namchon Golf Club was renovated in 2016 by Kyle Phillips, who remodelled the 3rd, 14th and 17th holes, in addition to redesigning the par threes at #4 and #12.

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Known as Phoenix Park Ski Resort, the golf course first opened for play in April 1998 and it’s South Korea’s first Jack Nicklaus Signature layout that’s set dramatically at 700 metres (2,300 feet) above sea level.

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Situated within a vast area of densely forested terrain to the east of Seoul, the nines at Hill de Loci Country Club are named Birch and Pine for good reason as the fairways were literally carved from their woodland surroundings.

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First opened in 2007 and fashioned by Song Ho Design, Saint Four Golf & Resort extends to four 9-hole circuits – Cielo & Bosco and Vita & Mare – with the first two nines comprising the premier 18-hole layout.

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Originally established as a private member’s set-up, the 18-hole layout at the Ferrum Club is a Cynthia Dye McGarey & Kim Myong Gil design that debuted in 2014. Following a change in ownership, it now operates as a pay and play golf facility.

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Unveiled in 1993, the course at Konjiam Golf Club was extensively renovated by Golfplan seventeen years after it first opened, with fairways reshaped and sand capped and double greens converted to single greens.

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Situated forty kilometres southeast of Seoul, the South, East and West nines at East Valley Country Club are a trio of early new millennium mountain layouts designed by Gary Roger Baird, former lead architect with Robert Trent Jones Sr.

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Blue Heron Golf Club opened in March 1992 as Club700 Golf Club, which was limited to 700 members. The course was co-designed by American architect David Rainville and local architect Myeong-gil Kim.

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Bear Creek Golf Club is located near the famous Mount Wunak, not far from Pocheon in the northeastern region of Gyeonggi province.

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Surrounded by a forest of pines, said to number 300,000, and set at 200 metres above sea level close to Mt. Seolak, the Pine Ridge Resort golf facility was built with a rather mawkish mantra...

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Located next to Incheon International airport and with its own separate clubhouse, the Hanul course opened for play in 2005 and is one of four 18-hole layouts at the SKY72 Golf & Resort.

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The Mountain and Hill nines at Ildong Lakes Golf Club hosted six editions of the SK Telecom Open on the Korean Tour between 1997 and 2005 so this tree-lined track is more than capable of testing the top professionals in Asia.

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Set out on hilly terrain around an hour’s drive northeast of the capital, the layout at Sono Felice Country Club consists of the Healing and Eco nines which measure 6,616 metres from the back markers.

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Set in the hills to the east of Seoul, the 18-hole layout at Cheongpyeong Midas Golf Club comprises the Valley and Midas nines. Opened in 2013, it’s operated by the Daekyo Group, South Korea’s biggest educational and cultural service enterprise.

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Designed by Robert Trent Jones Jnr, the Ocean and Sky nines at Sky Hill Jeju Country Club form the best 18-hole layout on the property but the Hill and Forest nines are not short of admirers at a wonderful 36-hole facility.

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Situated close to the Welli Hilli Park ski resort in Gangwon province, the South course at Welli Hill Country Club is the premier layout at a wonderful 36-hole facility designed by Robert Trent Jones Junior which debuted in 2008.

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The 27-hole course at Bear’s Best CheongNa is – as you might expect from the name – a Jack Nicklaus design that was unveiled early in the new millennium with each loop named Australasia, Europe and USA.

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The Birch Hill Golf Club layout at the YongPyong resort comprises two nines, the Birch and the Hill, and this 18-hole set-up is regarded as the premier course at a marvellous 45-hole facility which also features ski slopes and a water park.

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Designed in 2015 by Ahn Moon Hwan Maestro Country Club's nod to classical music is perhaps taking things a step too far, but the architect certainly made good use of the valley contours and installed clever runoff areas around a number of the greensites.

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Described as “an old-school Asian Tour course,” with greens sloping almost exclusively from back-to-front, the 18-hole layout at NamSeoul Country Club has hosted nearly every edition of the Maekyung Open since the first edition of this event in 1982.