ABOUT ARCHITECT
LIANG GUO KUN
Liang Guokun, the world famous senior golf course designer, possesses thirty-year experiences for golf course and garden designing and management. In 1999, he joined in Country Garden and is now the group’s executive director who hosts the overall landscape and greening design work in Country Garden. Country Garden not only enjoys good reputation at home, it also can evoke sensations abroad and make foreigners to have a new look of China’s landscape design. The sultan of Johor in Malaysia had visited the Danga Bay project by Country Garden and complimented it greatly as the best garden he ever saw. He even wanted to invite Liang Guokun to optimize the royal palace. The five-level landscape architecture designed by Liang Guokun for Forest City was reputed by the sultan of Johor as the “New Name Card of Johor”.
The sultan of Johor in Malaysia had visited the Danga Bay project by Country Garden and complimented it greatly as the best garden he ever saw. He even wanted to invite Liang Guokun to optimize the royal palace. The five-level landscape architecture designed by Liang Guokun for Forest City was reputed by the sultan of Johor as the “New Name Card of Johor”.
LGK Classic Course crafted by golf course architect Liang Guo Kun, who has experience with designs in China, this new tract will certainly get he local industry buzzing and shake up the region for more than a couple of reasons.
It is a wily creation that is considerably tougher to play than the Jack Nicklaus-designed Legacy – the first course on the property and one that was opened for business last September.
Also, while the new tract has been pristinely shaped and put together, the hazards are rather profound and come largely in the form of numerous water bodies, tellingly placed sand bunkers and mounds, all woven within or bordering on generally narrow fairways – or at least a lot narrower than the Legacy course.
Speaking exclusively to TeeUp, Liang said he was delighted at the prospect of crafting the Classic course and looked forward excitedly to the third layout on the multi-million dollar undertaking that forms part of Country Garden Holdings’ massive development project in Johor.