By Guest Blogger Richard Hughes.
We’ve reviewed Nine Eagles Golf Course in Hong Kong before and it wasn’t favourable. To recap what we said in that review, basically the course is so-so, the price is expensive and management, particularly the General Manager, is unresponsive. We asked for permission to teach there during weekdays, when the course is not busy, wanted to promote the course and send people out there, but the course was uncooperative, to put it nicely, and didn’t want anything to do with promoting the course (for no charge).
In this review of Nine Eagles Golf Course Hong Kong, I’d like to go over my most recent experience. I called up Nine Eagles Golf Course Hong Kong to ask if I could take my 3 year old son on to the practice chipping and putting greens (not the actual course). I was told over the phone no problem, no restrictions. When I got to the course the receptionist asked how tall by boy is. I told her 95 cm. She said sorry but you can’t play (practice) because you need to be over 105cm. I said that was ridiculous, that I had called the course the previous night and explained what I had been told.
I asked to speak to the Manager, and not surprisingly she said the Manager wasn’t there. I asked to call him, but she said she couldn’t do that. The General Manager is obviously a very shy person and doesn’t like to talk or communicate with anybody and had obviously given instructions not to contact him under any circumstancs. After a few more minutes, she then said pointed to my son, and said “oh, he’s not wearing proper golf attire”, citing his shoes. He was wearing flat bottom Nike shoes. She was obviously now trying to come up with other reasons why he couldn’t play (practice). I demanded to speak to someone else, she then called the starter who came, took one look at my son and said that’s fine.
What a performance. They’re supposedly trying to encourage golf in Hong Kong, but everytime we’ve been out there, we encounter some sort of problem. They walk around with their noses in the air and playing there is like walking into Augusta National. It’s absoluetly ridiculous. Repeated attempts to contact the General Manager, Vincent Leung, go unanswered.
There are apparently plans to turn SkyCity Nine Eagles Golf Club in Hong Kong into a shopping mall (see this story here: http://www.construction-post.com/airport-authority-plans-shopping-complex-golf/) and that will actually be a welcome change because playing golf at SkyCity Nine Eagles Golf Club in Hong Kong is not, and has never been enjoyable experience.
If you want a lesson on how not to run a golf course, just turn to SkyCity Nine Eagles Golf Club in Hong Kong.
