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The Clearwater Bay Golf & Country Club is a private sporting club on the Clear Water Bay peninsula in Hong Kong. Its eighteen-hole golf course was developed in two stages, beginning with the Lowland nine in 1982 and followed by the Highland nine in 1987. The original design was undertaken by Japanese architects T.
Sawai and A. Furukawa. The course was subsequently redesigned with the involvement of the Thomson, Perrett and Wolveridge architectural partnership.
The course is an 18-hole golf course. It plays to par 70, 6,115m (6,687 yards). Designed by T. Sawai and A. Furukawa, the course originally opened in 1982. It is a private members-only club. On-site facilities include Clubhouse, Restaurant, Marina, Fitness Facilities, Recreational Facilities.
The concept behind Clearwater Bay was considerably broader than the construction of a golf course. Planning began in the mid-1960s for a private sporting development combining golf, country-club recreation and marine facilities. The proposal required extensive feasibility studies, statutory applications and negotiations before construction could begin.
The organisation was incorporated as a non-profit club in 1977. Its location on a difficult coastal peninsula created substantial engineering and construction challenges.
Japanese architects T. Sawai and A. Furukawa designed the original golf course.
The Lowland nine was constructed first, opening in 1982. This sequence allowed development to proceed from the outer sections of the difficult site without repeatedly crossing completed work. The Highland nine followed in 1987.
The two sections make use of different elevations and relationships with the surrounding coastline.
The club was formally inaugurated on 16 December 1982, although construction of the wider development continued for several years. The Highland nine opened in 1987, and the overall sporting complex reached completion during the early 1990s. The golf course subsequently underwent a significant redesign associated with Peter Thomson, Ross Perrett and Mike Wolveridge.
Ross Perrett discussed the project in a retrospective article published in Inside Golf in October 2024.
The Clearwater Bay redesign was the subject of a detailed retrospective by architect Ross Perrett in Inside Golf, published on 18 October 2024. The article examines the original Japanese design and the later architectural changes.
Clearwater Bay operates as a private sporting club offering golf alongside yachting, dining and recreational facilities. The eighteen-hole course remains a central part of the organisation's activities.
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