History
Chuiwan, a stick and ball game with some similarities to golf was played in China as early as 1000 AD, with evidence existing from the Song Dynasty.
The sport was banned up until the middle of the 1980s by the communist party as being too bourgeois.
The first golf course constructed in China opened in 1984. It was the Chung Shan Hot Springs in Zhongshan, based on a design by Arnold Palmer.
The first international tournament held in China was the 1995 World Cup at Mission Hills in Guangdong.
China's first regularly scheduled tournament was the 2004 BMW Asian Open. In 2005, the Volvo China Open was held in China, followed by the HSBC Champions in 2006.
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