72 REPORT A rendering of the par-three twelfth, which plays towards Tolo Harbour and the Tai Po Kau Nature Reserve Creating a golf haven Over 50 hectares of restored landfill in Hong Kong is being transformed into an environmentally sustainable golf course. Plover Cove Golf Club represents one of the most ambitious golf projects Hong Kong has ever seen. A private consortium is behind the transformation of the 53-hectare Shuen Wan landfill site – located in Tai Po, in the northeast of the country, not far from Shenzhen on the Chinese border – into a remarkable golf destination. Prior to the 1970s, Shuen Wan was a coastal inlet surrounded by small villages, fishing ponds and agricultural land. And then in 1974, as Hong Kong industrialised rapidly, the site became landfill – selected due to its relatively remote location and shallow coastal waters that were suitable for reclamation. However, by the 1990s, Hong Kong was moving towards modern engineered landfills, and older sites like Shuen Wan were gradually being phased out. Photo: Harris Kalinka
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