Mangshi · Dehong · Western Yunnan
Peacock Lake
Golf Club
华丰孔雀湖高尔夫球会
Huafeng Peacock Lake Golf Club德宏华丰孔雀湖高尔夫球会
Closed · Historical course profile
Mountain golf beside Peacock Lake. An 18-hole course shut down in May 2016, with a later digital version preserving another way to remember its fairways.
- Location
- MangshiPeacock Lake · Dehong
- Course
- 18 holesMountain layout
- Golf ended
- May 2016Confirmed in the official record
- Elevation change
- 170 metresAcross the mountain layout
The setting
Mountain golf
beside Peacock Lake.
Huafeng Peacock Lake was an 18-hole mountain course in Mangshi, in Yunnan’s western prefecture of Dehong. The course lay southeast of Peacock Lake, also known as Mangjiu Reservoir.[2]
Wooded slopes framed its fairways, with bunkered greens and flowering gardens around water features.
The golf
Valley fairways.
Mountain changes.
Joe F. Obringer is credited with the design in Par Golf’s September 2014 course profile. The mountain routing followed the existing terrain, with around 170 metres between its lowest and highest points.[4]
Fairways varied in width through the wooded valley, and nine holes were equipped for night golf. An artificial lake and clubhouse formed a central feature of the course.[4][5]
Natural rock, flowers, fruit trees and water shaped the playing landscape.[4]
The timeline
From club golf
to a digital memory.
July–September 2014
Contemporary profiles describe the operating 18-hole course and its night-golf facilities.[4][5]
May–August 2016
The course is shut down in May. Trees are planted across its playing areas in August.[1][2]
October 2022
Rungolf features its digital version of Huafeng Peacock Lake and describes the physical course as closed.[3]
2023
Environmental investigators find the former course overgrown, while the hotel remains in operation.[1]
The closure record
Closed in May.
Planted in August.
The golf course was shut down in May 2016. It formed part of the Dehong Peacock Lake visitor-service centre development, alongside a hotel and outdoor swimming pool. The local environmental authority confirmed the shutdown date in its September 2023 complaint-handling report.[1]
Tree planting began on 23 August 2016, covering former tees, fairways and bunkers. A contemporary New Beijing News report recorded the work and quoted a club employee confirming that the course was closed for play.[2]
Life after golf
Fairway outlines
among the wooded slopes.
By the 2023 environmental inspection, weeds covered the former course. The adjoining hotel remained in operation.[1]
From the surrounding mountains, former fairway corridors remain visible across the wooded slopes, with Peacock Lake and Mangshi beyond.
A second life on screen
The fairways live on
in another form.
Huafeng Peacock Lake survives in digital form. Simulator developer Rungolf featured its recreation of the closed course in October 2022, preserving another way to experience its former fairways.[3]
About Huafeng Peacock Lake
Is the golf course open for bookings?
No. The course closed in May 2016 and is no longer available for golf bookings.[1]
Where was it?
In Mangshi, Dehong, southeast of Peacock Lake in western Yunnan.[2]
Did it have 18 holes?
Yes. There were 18 holes on a mountain layout.[2]
What do the photographs show?
The three archival photographs show the course during its playing years. The mountain panorama shows the later landscape. The photographs have been restored or retouched to remove overlaid text and other distractions.
The historical record
Sources and further reading
- Dehong Ecology and Environment Bureau · Environmental complaint-handling results, batch 13 · 12 September 2023 ↗Official May 2016 shutdown date and conditions found in 2023. Case X53310020230824001.
- New Beijing News report, reproduced by Read01 · 30 August 2016 ↗Contemporary account of tree planting on former playing areas.
- Rungolf · A tour of its digital course collection · 14 October 2022 ↗The developer’s record of Peacock Lake’s digital version.
- Par Golf / 帕尔高尔夫 · Huafeng Peacock Lake course profile · 10 September 2014 ↗Design credit, terrain, elevation change, night-golf facilities and course features.
- Par Golf / 帕尔高尔夫 · Golf in Mangshi · 23 July 2014 ↗Historical course setting, clubhouse, artificial lake and nine floodlit holes. Published by the same outlet as the September course profile.